FAQ

Just as coin has its two sides, there are advantages and disadvantages of everything, so does SSD and HDD. The main disadvantage of SSD is cost and capacity, its main advantage is performance. At the other side, SSD spent less power on the same operation. It means that notebook can extend its time so as to save the cost of electricity for data center. Because of its strong shock resistance, SSD is a better choice for movable facilities. SSD could be much cheaper than HDD if high capacity is not needed. The current cheap SSD in market are with low capacity.

The sustained read speed of KingSpec SSD is 155MB/s, a normal SATA disk’s sustained read speed is 80-90MV/s. The average seek time of KingSpec SSD is 0.2mini second, however HDD arrives only 1 to 15 mini seconds. The difference achieves 20 and 95 times.

Meanwhile, there are some applications that are not compatible with Solid State Disk, such as large data conservation. It is a waste to save the data which is visited infrequently through flash storage. What’s more, Solid State Disk will show fewer advantages while player videos. It is enough while videos is going to get stuck. However, some HTPC users may prefer the peace and size of Solid State Disk.

Of course no problem, KingSpec Solid State Disk absolutely supports hot-swappable function which defined by SATA specification. But in order to ensure the data security for customers, we advise to keep this function away. KingSpec e-SATA SSD, belongs to SATA outer function with USB 2.0 interface. Clients who offen use hot-swappable could take more consideration of them.

Using several pieces of Solid State Disk to build the performance of RAID 0, do pay attention that we need to make sure RAID controller can satisfy its need. Under arraying mode, the working data of Solid State Disk is quite large, a lot of RAID controller have not consider such fast speed.

Reading and writing speed is working as appose, KingSpec Solid State Disk is using 8 lines for data storage, it is equal to 8 lines of RAID 0.

The performance of any Solid State Disk decide by flash storage bandwidth, efficiency of average spoilage and interface (SATA, IDE, PCI-E etc). No matter how strong the performance of flash storage, it will be useless if there is SATA interface. Solid State Disk will benefit once the third SATA standard is out.

Exactly, SLC NAND is much faster, however we can see the difference only when we make contrast on them, moreover MLC can achieve high speed under large data to be read and written. Solid State Disk manufacturer, Such advantage on cost and capacity drawn manufacturer’s attention. That is why people use MCL most of the time.

Normally, they got the same power consumption when they are having the same high load work, or in the same resting condition. But Solid State Disk shows more advantages on power consumption: 1. Solid State Disk doesn’t have revolving motor so that it got lower power consumption while out of working. 2. It takes shorter time and more frequently while Solid State Disk went into resting condition or awake from resting time since it doesn’t need to transfer rising and falling speed. At last Solid State Disk is able to finish the same work at the soonest time so as to get into resting time at earlier date. The above advantages made Solid State Disk saving much more electronic power than HDD during practicing using.

Exactly, flash storage own different quality, it just like CPU corresponding with different cost. USB usually use lower grade flash storage, you will find out the difference on performance when you take a USB working as fixed disk. At the other side, the difference of superior flash storage is quite obvious on reliability, high quality flash chips got lower error rate in the whole life cycle. Although we can use cheaper flash chips for moveable disk, we all know that “you get what you pay for it.”

For Solid State Disk, performance is not connected with memory data. Loss of balance management algorithm for flash storage will work as usual, no matter how full the space is. The performance of some documental system such as NTFS, FAT32 will be drop when disk is full load, however that is the problem of the software. It is not associated whether use solid state disk or not. When some system documents which are specially for Solid State Disk came out in the future, there will be examples that storage space effects on performance.

Solid State Disk is much better at shaken resistance since it is without active components. In addition magnet storage medium was used so as to avoid danger of data loosing that caused by magnetization. As a result, It can release much space and weight after taking off plenty of components which are mainly for shaken protection of if manufacturers choose to use Solid State Disk. We don’t need to worry about outer circumstance while install Solid State Disk on desktop PC.

There is no difference between Solid State Disk, USB Flash Disk, memory card and mobile on physics identity. So we don’t need to concern of any effects from X radial.

First of all, flash storage is a maturate technology which had been practiced test for quite a long time. Although flash storage have a limit of its life-span. As for the current technology, its life-span is exceeding its actual using time. For instance, the official data of KingSpec Solid State Disk shows that no matter how is the using frequency, it minimum life-span is 8 years. Its life-span can extend 5 years more if using frequency is not high. Date safety is always priority of KingSpec.

This question is a bit complicate. There are distinct differences on data conversation between Solid State Disk and HDD. For example, to avoid a location be aged rapidly which caused by read and write frequently, Solid State Disk usually used Wear Level Algorithm so as to divide per location averagely.

The main theory of management for fragment of disk is put the data which will be read frequently on the frequent visitorial location, the ones which are visited a fat lot will be put on corners. The theory of Solid State Disk is about to find any data rapidly. Disk managing tool is useless for optimizing system documents of Solid State Disk. So we suggest Solid State Disk users to forbid automatic management of disk fragment, also manual operation is not needed.

Currently various of system documents are not for Solid State Disk. Computer area spent plenty of years on revolving magnet medium to optimize storage, however Solid State Disk’s birth make all this optimizing come to be useless. It is a lucky thing that Solid State Disk with its current speed is able to work instead of Hard Disk. Maybe in the future we will witness some system documents which specially for optimizing of Solid State Disk come out.

Microsoft will optimize Solid State Disk in Windows 7, system will forbid using of automatic disk fragment cleaning. What’s more ATA trim is able to inform Solid State Disk that the location which can’t be used any more, then Solid State Disk will retract the space into next step of Weal Leveling Algorithm.