Comments on: Are Solid State Drives in Notebooks Worth the Extra Cost?

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:38:14 +0000

I forgot about this blog! Shame on me…
I was brought here by reading the press release on the new CF-53.
A good bit of time has passed since we last discussed the SSD devices. I had the 80GB HDD go out in my 30 MK2 after a year and half. That is what got me into SSD’s. Last night I loaded a Seagate 500GB Hybrid drive with my Vista restore discs. It has been so long since I ran Vista and a HDD that I had forgotten how slow the response time is. I see now where SSD’s are now offered in almost all your laptops, I believe?
keep up the great articles!

By: Panasonic Toughbook

Panasonic Toughbook — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:57:23 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Steven. We offer customers (like you) SSDs as an option in some models, especially for use in high vibration environments, such as helicopters. However, even in the demanding markets our Toughbook mobile computers are used, our customers see HDD failure rates comparable to SSDs (due to our proprietary shock mounting technology and exhaustive testing). We believe our rotating hard drives offer the best mix of reliability, performance, storage capacity and value. That’s a combination our customers have come to appreciate.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:47:51 +0000

I have 2 Cf-30′s. Each are using an Intel SSD. I do feel that the power use is reduced, and that there is no rotating heads do make it more “Rugged” in my opinion. For some reason I just dont trust those spinners!

By: John

John — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:11:05 +0000

Nice story. The smart buyer knows its not about the drive, its about the engineering that goes into the whole product.