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SSD (Solid State Disk) could improve trading speed?
[B]SNDK[/B] - SanDisk Corp. – Bulls are picking up in- and out-of-the-money call options on the maker of flash-based storage products once again today with shares in SanDisk Corp. trading 1.5% higher this afternoon at $50.35 just before 1:00 pm. Earlier in the session, SanDisk’s shares jumped 2.75% to hit an intraday- and new 52-week high of $50.97. Near-term bullish players purchased more than 2,000 in-the-money calls at the December $50 strike for an average premium of $1.35 apiece. Investors holding these contracts are prepared to make money should SNDK shares rally another 2.00% over the current price of $50.35 to trade above the average breakeven point at $51.35 ahead of expiration on Friday. Longer-term optimistic traders looked to the July 2011 $55 strike where some 2,000 call options were picked up at an average premium of $5.05 a-pop. Call buyers at this strike are poised to profit in the event that SanDisk Corp.’s shares jump 19.25% in the next seven months to surpass the average breakeven price of $60.05 by July expiration.
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just read this report these days - infos about failure-rates for new hardisks
not working or not long working SSDs are nearly as often as broken harddisks, only Intels SSDs ( 0,6 % ) had much better failure-numbers here.
this means when having new SSDs its still a "normal" risk to get a bad one ( 2-3 % ) , like standard HDs also.
also the report say there are much more bad HDs if they have more than 1 TB.
the smaller the better they are it seems.
Intel ist den Zahlen von hardware.fr zufolge der einzige SSD-Hersteller, der besser dasteht als Festplattenhersteller. 0,6 Prozent beträgt die Ausfallrate. Die vier anderen SSD-Spezialisten (Kingston, Crucial, Corsair, OCZ) befinden sich im Bereich zwischen 2 und 3 Prozent und damit im Mittelfeld der Festplattenhersteller.
I'm considering a SSD in an effort to manage multiple workspaces (w/ up to 6 chart each). It would be nice to open 4-6 of these workspaces (into the cache?) and toggle them from the NT7 file menu or MA. Am I expecting too much out of a SSD here w NT7 in 32 bit mode on a 64 bit system (see below)?
System Config: WIndows 7 Pro, 64 bit, Dual Quad Core 2.27GHz, 16 Gig Ram
Looking fwd to NT7.0.1000.4 as it is said to run in full 64 bit mode on Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 and I can use all my RAM and Processor potential!!!
Another option is the RevoDrives. These are SSD on a PCIe card. I just ordered one of these for a new system I am building. I went this route because there are no cables, so I can build a sys with a mobo, a graphics card, and an SSD. Done.
Not sure on Linux support, but I am very happy with the Revo drive I got.
One caution though, make sure your video cards and the revo all fit in the slots you have if you have more than one video card. I used Nvidia NVS 295 cards, which are passive and only use a single slot, so no issues. My old video cards would not have worked because the passive heat sync actually took up a second slot.
In some cases, I believe a SSD would, in fact, increase your actual platform's speed. Or at least increase the amount of data that it can handle at the same speed.
Case in point: Sierra Charts.
Information is written to the disk first, then read off of it to draw the charts/post data wherever you want it to be shown. (this is spelled out in their documentation, and is done on-purpose, so that multiple simultaneous representations of a market can be run off of a single data file).
My style is not that data-intense, so this is never a problem at all for me. And I notice no lag when I sometimes use a different platform right next to it (if anything, Sierra seems to be the faster of the two).
But if you needed say 6-10 different markets, each with volume and Depth of Market, your HDD would be crying for mercy & overheating alot as it wrote all of that data in real-time (I tried it just for fun, & my HDD is still mad at me).
Intuitively, it would seem that a SSD would speed up this process if you were stuffing large amounts of data into it in real time. Anyone with real expertise, feel free to chime in here & correct me if this notion is way off-base.
