Intel X-25V SSD upgrade

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BigVan99

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I finally did it.

After having a SSD in my laptop for the last 2,5 years I count not stand the slow quad core PC at home anymore. Bought the intel 40Gig SSD for US$100 from Amazon and arrived today.

Cant wait to install it tonight. It will be my boot drive wilt Windows 7 Professional installed.

If I can give upgrade advise - forget about the latest CPU or fastest memory - to see a SUBSTANTIAL improvement in your PC experience buy a SDD. Don't waste your money on the latest and greatest CPU you will not see the difference unless you a real hard core gamers etc.

Even if you buy a laptop - rather go for the entry level i3 or i5 processor, rip out the normal HDD and replace with a decent SSD. Currently running a OCZ vertex 2 SSD in my IBM X200.

I refuse to work on a PC without a SDD - NEVER again.
 
I see this just follows on from the previous SSD thread we had a little while back...

Im glad people are starting to see the light!!!

finally!!! :rolleyes:
 
Installed it this morning and it flies!!!!
Now got 2 SSD's in my life! And loving it!
 
How's the write speed on that X-25V SSD compared to the Vertex 2 BigVan?
 
HTC_guy said:
I see this just follows on from the previous SSD thread we had a little while back...

Im glad people are starting to see the light!!!

finally!!! :rolleyes:
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I agree, had mine for over a year now and it was the best upgrade ever :)
 
The Vertex 2 is much faster on write. I was aware of that before i bought the intel however at US$100 I could not resist. My plan is to buy a second intel drive and Raid 0 them for supper performance. I will make that my December project.

Mainly my OS will be on the intel drive of which 90% of the time will be reading data rather than writing. All other Data will be stored on other SATA HDD's.

I will check boot up time this evening - was substantially faster than HDD.

Currently running a AMD ® Athlon II X4 635 CPU with DDRII. The user experience it much better than many i5, i7, DDR3 systems out there (that could cost up to 10 times more). I've done many upgrades in my life and the SSD has been then biggest impact i"ve seen.
 
I bought a 160gb Intel X25M-G2 for my main desktop, and loved it so much I replaced the drives in the other 4 machines I maintain with some cheap Kingston SNV425-S2/64GB.

There is no looking back! Pure bliss :)
 
I cant remember who is was, but someone posted a comment a while back that I agree 100% with.

If you claim to have a "top of the range PC" and you dont have an SSD....

well then its not top of the range! :D

I see the new 25nm drives will be coming up in 2011 Q1 awesome!!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2928
 
Agree 100^100%

HTC_guy said:
I cant remember who is was, but someone posted a comment a while back that I agree 100% with.

If you claim to have a "top of the range PC" and you dont have an SSD....

well then its not top of the range! :D
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I can attest to this. First hand. Just bought an i7 930, GTX 470, 6GB and when installing windows 7
on a RAID 0 I had, I was not impressed at all with the performance, besides running games of course.

The general OS usage was surprisingly slow for the acclaimed speed of an i7. I am in progress for searching for an SSD, I need one pronto! Cant live with the processor waiting for the dam HDD all the time.

Should have saved some k on my setup and bought the SSD from the get go.

So for those SSD doubters, just get one!
 
I cant remember who is was, but someone posted a comment a while back that I agree 100% with.

If you claim to have a "top of the range PC" and you dont have an SSD....

well then its not top of the range! :D

I see the new 25nm drives will be coming up in 2011 Q1 awesome!!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2928
 
Uraeus said:
I can attest to this. First hand. Just bought an i7 930, GTX 470, 6GB and when installing windows 7
on a RAID 0 I had, I was not impressed at all with the performance, besides running games of course.

The general OS usage was surprisingly slow for the acclaimed speed of an i7. I am in progress for searching for an SSD, I need one pronto! Cant live with the processor waiting for the dam HDD all the time.

Should have saved some k on my setup and bought the SSD from the get go.

So for those SSD doubters, just get one!
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your PC is going to take off once you pop a SSD in there....

I mean, as far as I can remember, the hard drive has always been the slowest component in a PC (coz it has moving parts!)

and lets face it, your PC is only as fast as your slowest component!
 
HTC_guy said:
your PC is going to take off once you pop a SSD in there....

I mean, as far as I can remember, the hard drive has always been the slowest component in a PC (coz it has moving parts!)

and lets face it, your PC is only as fast as your slowest component!
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I hope so :) I was sorely dissapointed at building my 'beast' when it turned out to be slow and dull :(
I cant stand the wait for it, but I guess wootware is going to be my first pick again, the service was excellent the last time.

I was quite happy when I saw 50MB write speeds to my RAID, but the OS still gave some lag at hit me with a few "Not responding"'s now and then while it waits for the HDD.

I cant believe the prices of some of these SSD's! like over 50k on wootware, WTF goes to buy that at that price!?!
 
My previous IBM X300 was stolen then I had to use a normal drive for a month when I waited for the OCZ vertex 2. It was so painfull.

I've got about 35 000 mails in my mailbox seaching for anything with a normal drive would take 3 to 10 seconds with the SDD its instant less that a second. No sitting around waiting for it to respond.

That is where you see the speed of the SSD.

That IBM had a 1.2 Gig dual core processor and user experience was better than i7 PC's out there with normal HDD's.
 
BigVan99 said:
My previous IBM X300 was stolen then I had to use a normal drive for a month when I waited for the OCZ vertex 2. It was so painfull.

I've got about 35 000 mails in my mailbox seaching for anything with a normal drive would take 3 to 10 seconds with the SDD its instant less that a second. No sitting around waiting for it to respond.

That is where you see the speed of the SSD.

That IBM had a 1.2 Gig dual core processor and user experience was better than i7 PC's out there with normal HDD's.
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You make me feel so much better about spending my hard earned cash on a SSD now :)
 
The speed of a SSD drive is great but the 40gb Intel X-25V for me is too small.
Only when 128Mb SSD costs nears R1500 then it becomes affordable.
 
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