Old computers rejuvenated with SSD upgrades

[Computer Hope Admin]

SSDs are usually used in expensive computers like the Ars God Box and the MacBook Air, but SSD vendor RunCore's CES display points out that they can revitalize older computers as well. Several older computers were demoed sporting shiny new SSDs and running Windows 7 like champions. And maybe, some time this decade, that upgrade strategy might become cost-effective.

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[macdad-]

Wow, this will be good news to those with older PCs, no more having to constantly upgrade 

Well until the SSD started to peter out


Although the different technologies used with SSDs vary with Pros and Cons, For Example:

• NAND-Based SSDs use no capacitors they run on a circuit arragned in a Flip Flop manner where apply voltage to one input and it Sets the Output(1) or apply it to the other input and it Resets the Output(0), of course this would be constantly updated like a RAM chip.
• Flash Based SSDs are reliable and fast as well as no constant updating. but aren't the superman of the bunch.
• FRAM(Ferro-Electric RAM) are just recently developed that operate like RAM(in the speed and simplicity) but with out the battery backup and constant updating, these also have a longer life span than Flash(the designers claim that it could never peter out). So far these are fairly expensive and can store less amount of data than a Flash chip of relative size.