OCZ Synapse Series Caching Solution SSD

There is a good reason you get only half the space - overprovisioning. The only thing I don't like is the fact that it is a software solution, and currently only supports windows. Also, someone said on the forum that it takes 4 hours to rebuild after a bad restart...
 
P924 said:
There is a good reason you get only half the space - overprovisioning. The only thing I don't like is the fact that it is a software solution, and currently only supports windows. Also, someone said on the forum that it takes 4 hours to rebuild after a bad restart...
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I am only going to be using windows 7 (or higher once released). Does the overprovisioning really help, or is losing the 30GB not worth it?

hereticangel said:
you can do the same if you have z68 with any ssd :P
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Dont have a z68.
 
Overprovisioning helps an immense lot. You don't need more than 30gb in a caching drive - according to some articles I've read the gains start diminishing very rapidly after that. Remember, it does not put everything on the drive, only files that gets accessed a lot. The overprovisioning makes sure that the drive's performance stays good, but most importantly, because it is used as a cached drive, meaning that it gets written to much more, overprovisioning provides lots of free space for wear leveling. Having 50% free space increases the life of the drive multiple times. The formula is available somewhere on the web. I know of a Corsair Force 3 120gb that was tested with around 50% free and it made it to about 1000TiB before failure...

http://www.storagereview.com/intel_ssd_520_enterprise_review

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm
 
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