AnyDVD HD Conflict with SSD?

[sondeterra]

Nothing made by the hand of man is perfect.

[shortsheep]

SSD's are one of the biggest fad's to hit the computer market in recent years. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon. As soon as you see how fast your computer boots, you're hooked. Nearly everyone assumes that since it boots so fast, that every application will run just as fast. No true! Do a real-world comparison, looking at actual performance. Ripping and transcoding times are NOT improved by using an SSD. Simply put, the data rate of these applications does not exceed the performance of most SATA drives, even SATA-I at 1.5GB/s. I too got suckered in to buying the fastest SSD I could find (with sustained 575MB/s data rate), thinking that I'd save some minutes doing those 2-hr transcodes. Guess what? The SSD didn't make a SINGLE SECOND IMPROVEMENT! Bottom line: for the vast majority of users with desktops, SSD's are a complete waste of money unless you reboot a hundred times a day. SSD's are very good in laptops for saving battery life and lowering heat, but if you transcode on a laptop, heaven help you (wrong tool for the job!).

And when SSD's die there's usually no warning, so you better have a good backup!

[Adbear]

Not sure why you'd expect ripping and transcoding times to be faster, but loading times for Applications and games is a lot quicker as well as being able to use them for memory caching in programs such as After FX and other things that need access to a lot of memory space quickly. Also as to transcoding on a laptop, it all depends on your laptop, mine has a 3720qm 2.6Ghz i7 which turbo's at 3.6Ghz, and is great for transcoding DVD's and encoding Blu-rays with. I even have the option of using the Quicksync if I need to do something in a rush to get a fairly decent quick job out

[zero7404]

i have an old intel x-25m drive, luckily its been running fine the past 2 yrs. anydvdhd is installed on it since its my OS drive, but when i encode/rip i send the output to a traditional hdd. so of the 2 drives i have SSD/HDD, the HDD gets worked harder.

been updating to the latest anydvd frequently too ....

dont take whatever the manufacturer says as 100%, they always slant themselves to make you believe theres a problem somewhere else. just return it and get another one.

i must be pretty lucky, in my 20 yrs of computing i never had a drive fail such that i couldnt resurect it with a reinstall or wipe of the mbr

posted via android ....