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05-09-2008, 11:18 PM
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| Senior Amoeba  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: On the dinner table. Blechh!
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| Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? I've been quite annoyed with the performance of my PC since going to C2D etc, etc - see My system, primarily because the 500GB hard drive seems to be the bottle neck (Everything else is fine). Win XP - SP2 500GB split C - 20GB - Windows - 50% free D- 10GB - small apps (FF, winrar, Office etc) - 25% free G - 100GB - Games - 40% free S - 340GB - Storage - 10%free I've done everything to try to make it faster and I'm considering going back to 2x 160GB in raid 0 for Windows, small apps, games and using the 500GB for external storage (backup). (2x 160GB used as backup atm) On the other hand SSD prices have been dropping recently and 64GB (OCZ 2.5") is about £160 and I could easily fit Windows, small apps and the games I play on that and it would be quiet too. For half that price I could get 2x 500GB and raid 0 those. Is the SSD faster? Is reliability and longevity up to scratch now? What are your thoughts? Anyone gone SSD yet? "Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride. |
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05-09-2008, 11:22 PM
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| finding nemo  Join Date: Jan 2007
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? You could get 2 x 640GB's. Even one 640GB WD AAKS is a worthy drive and a bargain at £50. Wouldn't bother with SSD yet, although OCZ's is supposed to be very good according to this test http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/...-Mtron/?page=9 Just doesn't seem worth it right now for the limited space you get. |
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05-09-2008, 11:44 PM
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? more drives and use a small one for paging and temp files, another for file and move the my docs there. that will speed you up. |
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06-09-2008, 12:13 AM
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| Big, Mean and Ugly! Join Date: May 2008
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? Originally Posted by iranu I'm actually currently in the process of swapping out a WD raptor for a OCZ 64GB SSD, will let you know my impressions 
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06-09-2008, 01:05 AM
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| Gundam  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Edinburgh
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? Probably not worth it atm, id wait until prices drop more tbh. If you have all the money in the world then go nuts. lol  |
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06-09-2008, 09:22 PM
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? RAID 0 really wouldn't help you, but an SSD for your OS would make things feel a lot faster due to the low access times. |
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06-09-2008, 10:27 PM
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? not worth it yet. like Gonz0 said if you have multiple drives then spread your files across. First drive just for the os, second one for games and the third for all my files and the pagefile. Keeps the pc quick enough. Reboot time with vista is 63 seconds which is nice. stay with the current hard drives for now until they drop a bit more.  |
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06-09-2008, 10:51 PM
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? I am going to go with what everyone else has said. Then again, I reckon that at best SSD will replace the Raptor market at best, regular HD will remain best value for the money for years to come.  |
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07-09-2008, 12:48 AM
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? Prices will drop and drop over the next few months, wait....... in the mean time just hibernate windows! Few people seem to do it, no idea why..... |
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07-09-2008, 01:10 AM
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? Originally Posted by sjbuck the extra bit of ram (4gb total) makes it just a little bit longer
 In sleep mode the pc uses very little power too though. Just gotta turn off. But it only takes a minute to boot up so it's not needed for everyone. |
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10-09-2008, 11:17 AM
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| Senior Amoeba Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: On the dinner table. Blechh!
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? Just thought - I could also just buy another 500GB drive for £42 and use matrix raid. Run raid 0 for the OS, apps and games and then I'd have plenty of space for storage. Edit - just rereading staffmikes link and there isn't too much difference between 2x 160GB and 2x 500GB in raid 0. It's the read times I'm most interested in. Damn storage - it's so easy to accumulate 100's of GBs these days and I really ought to sort my storage strategy out once and for all. "Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride. Last edited by iranu; 10-09-2008 at 11:28 AM.. |
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10-09-2008, 11:40 AM
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| Re: Solid State Drives (SSD) - Worth it yet? I love embracing newer, faster tech but can't see the point in SSD at the moment. The tech is just too new at the moment, it seems that there are advances every other week and what's being sold at a premium price today, will be old hat and obsolete tomorrow. Unless you really must have it, I would wait a bit and see how the field plays-out over the next 6-12 months. Main PC: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i920 @ 4GHz / 12GB DDR3-1600 / Sapphire HD5870 + Asus Dark Knight GTS 250 (PPU) / Areca 1680 / Xonar D2X / Seasonic M12-700 / 2x Dell 3007 / Win 7 x64 Ultimate and Snow Leopard Main PC Raid Setup: 2 x 80GB G2 Intel SSD (OS and Apps - RAID0) / 2 x 64GB Samsung SSD (Games - RAID0) / 4 x 1TB Sumsung F1 (Mass Storage - RAID5) Spare PC: ABit IX38 Quad GT / Q6600 @ 3.4GHz / 6GB DDR2-6400 / Sapphire 4870x2 + XFX 8600GTS (PPU) / X-Fi Fatal1ty / Xclio 700W Modular / Dell 2405 / Various SATA drives / Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Spare PC 2 / Server: Asus P5K / Q9550 / 8GB DDR2-8000 / XFX 8800GTX + Aegia Card (PPU) / Areca 1210 / 2 x 320GB Seagate 7200.10 / ESX 4.0 / Windows 7 x64 Ultimate HTPC: ASRock ConRoe945G-DVI / E5300 / 4GB DDR2-6400 / HD4550 / TH50PHD9 / 2 x 1.5TB Samsung F2 / LG GGW-H10N / Win 7 x86 Pro NAS: Thecus N5200 with 5 x WD6400AAKS (Modded to PRO) My latest 3DMark score | RAID Peformance | My DVD Collection |
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