Techo: SSDs not quite so bad as first thought

Toms Hardware has taken note of criticism of their SSD/HDD battery-life evaluation, such as this one by George Ou that I read some days ago -
http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/81/Default.aspx

Here is Toms Hardware's apology and revised evaluation -
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/15/toms-hardware-rescinds-ssd-power-test-finds-them-more-efficien/

This time, George gives then an 'A-' instead of an 'F' -
http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/83/Default.aspx


The more important thing, imo, is the differences between Single-Level Cells and Multi-Level Cells (SLC and MLC) used in Flash memories.
MLC is inferior in performance, but cheaper to make, so guess which one the manufacturers want to foist on us?

I vented (just a little bit) here -
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=89349
I'll tell you right now,
MLC is the HD/DVD of SSDs, SLC is the Blu-Ray of SSDs.
People just won't settle for cheaper but inferior, no matter how many profit dollar signs are in the vendors eyes.
They might as well get used to it and concentrate on SLC and bring the price down by total market dominance, that works!