Dave Willcox said:
Can somebody tell me why SSD drives are small in size when the
applications are getting bigger and bigger every day?
How much money do you want to spend on one? Well, you could always buy
many and spend thousands to chain them into a huge spanned drive or use
RAID to span across them. Then you can make them as big as your pocket
can afford.
Obviously a manufacturer cannot afford nor survive by producing goods
that no one buys. They have to find price points where consumers are
willing to purchase. I'm sure they could make far larger sizes of SSD
disks but how many consumers are going to buy them? As rarity (of
sales) and capacity increase so does price and at a non-linear rate.
Ten 128GB SSDs manufactured into one unit (if physically possible to get
all the flash memory inside one standard-sized disk enclosure) would not
cost
Then consider just who is going to buy those super-huge SSDs. It won't
be you or other buyers using consumer-grade computers but file service
companies or data centers (but they also realize economy in spanning).
Those type of customers are probably more interested in survivability of
data rather than cheapness of hardware so they won't be buying the type
of SSD that you do. They'll spend the bucks to get SLC instead of
buying the cheaper MLC types. They'll want enterprise-grade hardware,
not your consumer-grade stuff, and that costs more so they don't need to
waste money on single-unit huge capacity when RAIDING cheaper units
gives them better economy along with increase endurance.
What is the point of having a machine with 128 GB SSD drive (or
256 GB) when one should go for at least 1000 GB using normal Hard
Drives?
So do YOU really have that much disk space in the *OS* and *PROGRAMS* to
fill up a 128GB drive? Yeah, didn't think so.
Am I missing something here?
Yep, that you pollute your OS+app partition with tons of *data* files
that should be stored elsewhere.
Do SSD have other means of
storing files and programs to make them viable for everyday use?
That doesn't make sense. You were trying to say something but did so
poorly. Obviously SSDs store files. Some "other means" means not
storing on the SSD so the SSD is not relevant. Perhaps what you really
meant to ask is "Can [data] files and programs (which are files) be
stored other than on SSDs to make them usable". Of course. Install
programs (and their files) and especially your data files on a different
drive (which is not a partition on the SSD). I have a 160GB SATA disk
with one partition for the OS and apps and haven't run out of room on it
yet in over 6 years. There's still over 100GB left on it. The smaller
hard disk (1 partition = C: drive) is for the OS and apps. A larger
hard disk (1 partition = D: drive) is where I install games
(program+data) and store reference docs, videos, movies, audio,
downloaded files, and other such files go on my much larger drive on a
separate 500GB hard disk (with 1 partition). I changed the special
folder for "My Documents" to be on the D: drive (only because some
programs want to default to using that path to store their files rather
than let me specify elsewhere).
So why are you saving video, audio, movie, virtual machine, ISO images
and other huge files in the same partition as your OS drive? Who is
forcing you to store them all under your %userprofile% (which is on the
OS drive but can be moved to elsewhere)?
Partitioning on the same hard disk has purpose. Using partitions on
different disks also has purpose. It's up to you how you want to
purpose those partitions.
