d0b33
Honorary Master
Anyone notice how much cheaper SSDs are becoming? and there is a nice selection, not locally yet but Prophecy are selling the OCZ core for R2000 which is pricey compared to newegg at $99.
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howardb
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... I'm starting to save now! Can't wait for my first 1TB SSD Drive! 
The 32MB, 64MB and 128MB SSD's I currently have are great - they make a huge difference to the boot times and gaming - if they were more affordable, I'd get a few 256MB's for my video editing work.
I'm sure the prices are going to drop significantly over the coming months (well in the US and UK anyway) - I'll probably have to import a few if needed!
The 32MB, 64MB and 128MB SSD's I currently have are great - they make a huge difference to the boot times and gaming - if they were more affordable, I'd get a few 256MB's for my video editing work.
I'm sure the prices are going to drop significantly over the coming months (well in the US and UK anyway) - I'll probably have to import a few if needed!
d0b33
Honorary Master
1TB lol
I'll wait for a good 64GB SSD to cost less than R2000 first, I have not yet got hold of a SSD.
I'll wait for a good 64GB SSD to cost less than R2000 first, I have not yet got hold of a SSD.
killadoob
Honorary Master
I heard those ocz core ones are not that great.
These SSD prices should fall dramatically soon, problem as i see it is that people are willing to drop 7k on a gpu, 12k on an i7 system but cannot drop 5k on a hdd. If you live in a country where pc parts are cheap people still would not consider 200 dolla for SSD.
they say the performance does not warranty the price but anyone who has used windows xp, vista and windows 7 on both normal drives and ssd will tell you there is a dramatic increase in performance.
People think ssd's are not much faster than normal 7200 rpm because they do not understand that just because a ssd has slightly slower transfer rates, it opens stuff up 3-4x faster.
I say if you think you have a top end system and your running a 7200 rpm drive your pc is no where near top end.
I have a ssd and i have a 7200 rpm install for my bf 2 game at the moment and booting into vista on a 7200 after you have just finished working on a windows 7 ssd drive is really not fun, vista runs like rubbish on a 7200 drive geez i was amazed when loading it how long everything took, my ssd drive is so fast i do not think i could live without it.
1tb ssd FTW, they also consume no power and run totally cool.
Howard does that oke still have samsung drives would love to see 2 of these drives in raid
These SSD prices should fall dramatically soon, problem as i see it is that people are willing to drop 7k on a gpu, 12k on an i7 system but cannot drop 5k on a hdd. If you live in a country where pc parts are cheap people still would not consider 200 dolla for SSD.
they say the performance does not warranty the price but anyone who has used windows xp, vista and windows 7 on both normal drives and ssd will tell you there is a dramatic increase in performance.
People think ssd's are not much faster than normal 7200 rpm because they do not understand that just because a ssd has slightly slower transfer rates, it opens stuff up 3-4x faster.
I say if you think you have a top end system and your running a 7200 rpm drive your pc is no where near top end.
I have a ssd and i have a 7200 rpm install for my bf 2 game at the moment and booting into vista on a 7200 after you have just finished working on a windows 7 ssd drive is really not fun
, vista runs like rubbish on a 7200 drive geez i was amazed when loading it how long everything took, my ssd drive is so fast i do not think i could live without it.1tb ssd FTW, they also consume no power and run totally cool.
Howard does that oke still have samsung drives would love to see 2 of these drives in raid
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Ou grote
Honorary Master
... I'm starting to save now! Can't wait for my first 1TB SSD Drive!
The 32MB, 64MB and 128MB SSD's I currently have are great - they make a huge difference to the boot times and gaming - if they were more affordable, I'd get a few 256MB's for my video editing work.
I'm sure the prices are going to drop significantly over the coming months (well in the US and UK anyway) - I'll probably have to import a few if needed!
MB or GB?
d0b33
Honorary Master
The biggest fault of that drive is that it does not support AHCI, other than that it's a good drive.
I was going to buy it but then I saw the newegg prices and thought I'd wait for more SSD drives to enter our market.
howardb
Expert Member
ooops - GB
Howard does that oke still have samsung drives would love to see 2 of these drives in raid
killa - I tried to get hold of him again, but he's not answering - maybe away on business or something - 2x 128GB SSD RAID FTW!
I've got to do a clean O/S re-install in the next few weeks - I'm going to play around with my spare PC system by putting the XP/Vista O/S on the Warp 32GB SSD, the Program Files installed on the Samsung 64GB and the Games installed on the Samsung 128GB - will see how it compares to normal 7200 setup. It should be much quicker due to the seek times - less than 0.1ms.
best buy
killadoob
Honorary Master
Ponder linux is so fast why would need a SSD, people say it will run fast on p3 machines so why waste your money
Yea corne i wish i had bought 2 or 3 atleast hehe, for 2k for those 128gb samsungs, i would have to say that was without the best deal in my life
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cerebus
Honorary Master
I didn't realize it made that much of a difference.
killadoob
Honorary Master
Problem with SSD's is people do not realise how much of difference it makes and look at the read/write marks and not the seek time.
Cerebus the day you try an ssd it will blow your mind.
d0b33
Honorary Master
I'm thinking of getting the patriot ssd from Take2, it's still expensive compared to the US but I'm getting impatient.
Then again in a few months time the price should drop even more.
Dude you got your SSD at black-market prices the average user has to fork out 4x as much for the same drive. Trust me when the price becomes reasonable more people will be getting SSDs. The 32GB drives are already affordable but I'm waiting for the 64GB drives to come down in price.
Then again in a few months time the price should drop even more.
Dude you got your SSD at black-market prices the average user has to fork out 4x as much for the same drive. Trust me when the price becomes reasonable more people will be getting SSDs. The 32GB drives are already affordable but I'm waiting for the 64GB drives to come down in price.
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Ponder linux is so fast why would need a SSD, people say it will run fast on p3 machines so why waste your money
I want it faster and the current bottleneck is the HD my OS lives on.
Even linux users experience big improvements. 'Seek times' is the main thing.
killadoob
Honorary Master
Funny thing is my sister was going to hong kong in jan and i had asked here to buy a ssd so regardless if i had bought it for 2k here i was going to get her to buy me one even if it cost 300 dolla's but i just got lucky but i still would have one today had i not got the deal. My point though was people are happy to blow extreme amounts of money on hardware but it never crosses their mind to buy a fast hdd or they look at you funny when you tell then your velociraptor cost 3.5k while they are installing their 6k vga card
I bought a 350gb velociraptor for 3.5k so i am not adverse to spending alot on hdd's, the reason i wanted an ssd was because i saw how fast a raptor was with 5ms seek time compared to most 7200's which are about 12ms and people said yes killa but that is ms's. I thought if a raptor could be twice as fast with half the seek what would an ssd be like with 0.4ms seek time and it is mind blowing i think.
Less mind blowing for me as i have used raptors for a very long time now and someone going from 7200rpm to ssd will be blown away
The whole question of price for SSD is based on cost/GB - then it is more expensive when compared to regular HDD. However, the cost/IO is cheaper, making it really attractive to the enterprise users with high IO requirements.
Replacing 2, 3 or 4 SAS disks, used to meet the IO requirements as apposed to storage space requirements, with a single SSD is more cost effective....
Replacing 2, 3 or 4 SAS disks, used to meet the IO requirements as apposed to storage space requirements, with a single SSD is more cost effective....