Which SSD to get

First I was wtf, then I looked it up and saw it was a Jmicron drive and saw its performance. If all you want is an SSD, then go ahead. But don't believe that all SSDs are equal. That is a damn slow drive in SSD terms.
 
Why is it slow rudi? What makes it slow?

What game is going to use more than that offers? When we speak slow i like to know what people mean. For me a normal hdd with a 12ms seek time is slow compared to any ssd that has a seek time 0.1ms. Not to me the ssd will boot and load games/application so much faster.

Is faster to you the read/write?
 
Its half the Read/write speeds I know.

BUT... What the hell am I going to write to the thing after my games etc are done.
No Downloads will ever touch this drive ( Besides Windows Updates as well as Nvidia )
No Media at all will be copied. Just COD's and Sims 3 * For the GF * Perhaps the occasional game here and there.
Other than that, its firefox, msn, pidgin, mails, winamp, and U torrent.
Thats pretty much as tough as this ones life is...

So I repeat... If I spend R 4k more, what sort of performance Increase will I see over this cheapie???
 
You won't see a performance increase. All you want is stuff to run faster and open faster. You are not looking for high r/w speeds :D. The intel will not run your games faster or make winamp open faster :D.

Anyways lads been a good discussion, will check it tomorrow again :D.
 
Here are a couple of benchmarks of its performance:

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It's a substandard cheap product. You get what you pay for...
 
I know its cheap. But the thing is... It just might work for me :/
Do i really need a top of the range ssd drive? This is my argument...
My PC is already overkill for what i use it for.
 
You don't need a top of the range, but that is a bottom of the range SSD. Just be aware of that if you buy it.
 
Mypro-D said:
I know its cheap. But the thing is... It just might work for me :/
Do i really need a top of the range ssd drive? This is my argument...
My PC is already overkill for what i use it for.
Click to expand...

I'm going to stick my neck out again here and say that you may not even need an SSD at all.... SSD is no doubt faster than an HDD - I don't question that. The problem is that very often people overestimate the potential increase in performance and are disappointed with the results (seen it happen with both RAID and SSD). You can test for yourself:

Fire up Performance monitor:

Start > run > Perfmon.
Right click the graph > Add counters
Add Physical disk > Disk Reads per sec, Disk Writes per sec and Disk transfers per sec
Add System > Processor queue
Hit backspace and select transfers to highlight disk IO.

Clear the graph, wait for it to stabilise and then launch an application, wait for it to stabilise again and pause perfmon. How much time does the Transfers per sec occupy? If you had to remove that IO completely how much time would you save launching an application (obviously this is best case and an SSD will not cut this time down to zero). Look at the Processor queue as an indication of a processor bottleneck. The value should be 1 or less per processor core; anything higher represents a processor bottleneck.

The above testing will give you an indication of how much improvement to expect; for example it may turn out that your disk is not doing anything when you launch an app, but the processor is a bottleneck - or your disk may be running at 100% with an idle processor. You then decide if the improvement is worth the cash.
 
I highly doubt his i7 with loads of memory is a bottleneck. When clicking on applications a normal takes a moment to access to the drive and then open, a ssd just opens it. if you check that google link with that pdf you can see how the ssd destroys the hdd. With cpu's so fast the only way a cpu can be the bottleneck is if you are using a celeron or p4.
 
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Mypro, why not just get a decent SSD in a smaller size now. It will speed things up from a mech disk no matter which one it is. Then when the price cuts and larger sizes come through you can get another one.
Im going to get a SSD but a little one for running OS and some games on.
 
Well. Getting a small 64gig for the laptop.

I will decide from there if Ill put one im my main PC after that !
 
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