SSD vs HDD in copiers

[tsbservice]

Re: SSD vs HDD in copiers

Actually on new i-series storage board(SSD) stores Firmware(Controller).
There are many pros/cons about SSD but I found new KM Common Controller 6G is very fast and works good.
Print quality and overall make are different story...

[Xer0615]

Re: SSD vs HDD in copiers

I think $/GB is negligible at this point. I just updated my home PC with a 2.5" 1TB ssd and paid less than $120-- Thats about 12 cents per gigabyte.


Not only is it faster, but as reliable and less prone to failure due to shock.

I can't see this as being anything but a positive move.

[rthonpm]

Re: SSD vs HDD in copiers

I ve put SSD in my older laptops and they fly now..vista and win 8.
AS i been led to believe there are no moving parts on a SSD..
So why would it degrade?

There are a limited number of write cycles in a SSD. Operating systems like Windows, MacOS, and *nix have the ability to level out the locations used by writing data so that it's not always using the same area to write data (unlike a spinning disk which is sequential). MFP's write and delete every job to the disk as a portion of the spooling process, so the write cycles are used at a much faster pace. Busy machines like in a print shop would work through those cycles pretty quickly and you'd be left with a drive that couldn't reliably write data.

MFP manufacturers are always behind the curve in terms of hardware like this (look at the number of machines needing IDE hard drives after the rest of the world had long since moved on to SATA), so likely the wear leveling we see in our desktop OS's will start to make it to MFP's in a good five to seven years.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: SSD vs HDD in copiers

There are a limited number of write cycles in a SSD. Operating systems like Windows, MacOS, and *nix have the ability to level out the locations used by writing data so that it's not always using the same area to write data (unlike a spinning disk which is sequential). MFP's write and delete every job to the disk as a portion of the spooling process, so the write cycles are used at a much faster pace. Busy machines like in a print shop would work through those cycles pretty quickly and you'd be left with a drive that couldn't reliably write data.

MFP manufacturers are always behind the curve in terms of hardware like this (look at the number of machines needing IDE hard drives after the rest of the world had long since moved on to SATA), so likely the wear leveling we see in our desktop OS's will start to make it to MFP's in a good five to seven years.

SSDs are in Konica Minolta iSeries copiers now and likely next generation (not yet released) Toshiba copiers within two years. SSD technology advances all of the time. HDD technology not so much.

Toshiba copiers can use a combination of RAM and software to reduce write cycles to either a HDD or SSD.

Todate, the big question is whether or not the GSA (US Federal gov't purchasing agency) (the largest purchaser of copiers in the world) will accept SSD's on their Standing offers.

[Xer0615]

Re: SSD vs HDD in copiers

There are a limited number of write cycles in a SSD. Operating systems like Windows, MacOS, and *nix have the ability to level out the locations used by writing data so that it's not always using the same area to write data (unlike a spinning disk which is sequential). MFP's write and delete every job to the disk as a portion of the spooling process, so the write cycles are used at a much faster pace. Busy machines like in a print shop would work through those cycles pretty quickly and you'd be left with a drive that couldn't reliably write data.

MFP manufacturers are always behind the curve in terms of hardware like this (look at the number of machines needing IDE hard drives after the rest of the world had long since moved on to SATA), so likely the wear leveling we see in our desktop OS's will start to make it to MFP's in a good five to seven years.

Okay, and HDD MTBF is something like 10,000 hours-- They will fail inevitably. When specific cells in an SSD reach the end of their lifespan, the rest of the device is still funcitonl. This is not the case for HDD. Once it reaches that lifetime usage, the whole thing is junk.