Solid State Drive SSD Info Needed

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Hey There

Who can tell me more on SSD's, is it really that much faster, what is required to make use of it's capabilities, where can i get a good price, and how is your typical SSD setup.

I currently have a quad core, with 250gts graphix card and 8gb ram... however, my windows experience rating is dropped by 2 points due to my slow 80gb sata hdd 7200. (the experience index is not the reason for wanting to upgrade)

will i benifit?
 
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ok dont upgrade just to increase your windows score.. That thing is just stupid..
Next how the hec are you surviving on an 80gb drive!! :confused: I can't use less than 250GB (games, apps, documents, pictures and music)
And yes you will benefit from the speed :)

You basically use it like a normal HDD..
What Operating System do you have?

Also use the search function, we've discussed this all before..
 
nakedpeanut said:
ok dont upgrade just to increase your windows score.. That thing is just stupid..
Next how the hec are you surviving on an 80gb drive!! :confused: I can't use less than 250GB (games, apps, documents, pictures and music)
And yes you will benefit from the speed :)

You basically use it like a normal HDD..
What Operating System do you have?

Also use the search function, we've discussed this all before..
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hehe... hell no... i aint upgrading due to windows score.. :).. it's merely a frame of reference. I have a Windows Home Server with 6 TB, so my pc has only small drive for os and installations only. I am running Windows7 Ultimate.
 
If your motherboard is capable of running RAID, that might be a better solution. Two or three cheap 160gb drives running in a RAID configuration (the correct RAID reference number eludes me) should also perform quite well.

EDIT: I think it's called RAID 0
 
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The seek time on the SSD is much faster, but it won't make that much of a difference on the Win7 score. It'll also depend on the typt of SSD you get - the first generation ones have fairly low read/write speeds, and obviously cost less than the newer generation ones.

I find that my boot times are a lot quicker, accessing files is much faster, as is some gaming, but for most general home use, the speed difference is negligable when you weigh up the speed vs the cost of the SSD and a SATA HDD.

What's your budget?
 
SSD's are amazingly fast, but for a cheat speed increase, have a look at "Short Stroking". Basically, you will take 2x 500GB (any size hdd for that matter) and then configure them in RAID 0, but partition it to use only a small part of the drive. So, if you have 500GB drives, create a 250 partition, after RAID setup, then it will use the first 125GB of each drive. I have checked it out and they guys gets some nice speeds.
 
I once saw a forum where a guy was raiding 6 SSD Drives


What about SCSI, does that still exist?
 
maybe also have a look at the new hybrid drives 10 gig SSD and 100 gig on disk.(quite cheap)

I was looking around for one,and they were advertising 200meg read and write speed at R1500 for 64gigs,obv the more expensive ones will be more reliable,they also stated that SSD's get slower and slower the older they get,have to be used with windows 7(or the latest linux I guess)and never need to be defragged,although there are certain programs that clean them nicely and keep the speeds up.

there is also another option with a PCI express board where you insert modules of regular ram into the board and get rediculous speeds,obv more expensive and less reliable,but not by huge margins.


oh and it will make program startup and windows much faster due to no seeking times.

Sorry I havent left links but im typing from what I read.
just google around a bit ;)
 
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SSD are the way to go - you will see a huge increase in performance when opening up large files/games/programs also your boot time will decrease quite a bit.
You wont see much of a performance increase in games only loading saving etc.
The Windows benchmark shouldn't be worried about but a SSD will bring it to about 7.6 if you get a decent one.
I have the 120gb OCZ Vertex - its a great drive performs beautifully but they come at a price +-3k Smaller ones will be cheaper Duh.
AND it would be a good upgrade for your rig as your HDD is the bottleneck!
 
Depends what you want, your games will not be that much better with a ssd.

If you want a faster pc in general then go with a ssd but if your pc is just a gaming/mess around rig rather spend the money on a new vga card. If you are happy and just want a faster pc or you work on your pc then get the ssd but for a general purpose gaming rig you are wasting money when you could be putting it to more useful use :D.
 
Hi
From building a low end dual core pc with one of the new Intel ssds I can tell it rocks
The ps boots in 15 to 17 seconds. Double click on Word and its opened, instantly.
Got it from Axiz, R1000 for a 8 gig.
According to the box its the slowest of the lot performance wise.
The 16gig and 32 gig are rated with one and two extra performance stars respectively.
Go for it, Its the best invention for pcs in the last 3 years.
 
battmann said:
Hi
From building a low end dual core pc with one of the new Intel ssds I can tell it rocks
The ps boots in 15 to 17 seconds. Double click on Word and its opened, instantly.
Got it from Axiz, R1000 for a 8 gig.
According to the box its the slowest of the lot performance wise.
The 16gig and 32 gig are rated with one and two extra performance stars respectively.
Go for it, Its the best invention for pcs in the last 3 years.
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My windows 7 folder on my work pc here is 11.7GB - how the heck do you fit windows 7 onto an 8GB SSD?

Edit: Seems like you overpaid, the 40GB Intel X25-V Series SSD's are going for R899
 
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