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    Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    Hi,
    I’m thinking about getting a Solid state HD as my 1st primary Sata II HD for installing WinXP Pro (And possibly Win Vista Ultra in the future)

    This specific one caught my attention:
    OCZ SSD 60GB (Sata II Core Series V2)
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227360

    Its specs are superior to even the fastest 7200 – 10000RPM magnetic HD!
    Sequential Access - Read Up to 170 MB/s
    Sequential Access - Write Up to 98 MB/s

    So, is it worth the money and will it work flawlessly / faster for installing and booting WinXP Pro / Vsta Ultra compared to traditional magnetic 7200-10000rpm HDs?

    Thanks in advance

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    I think its a little expensive for what you need it for to be honest.
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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    spend the money on a faster CPU, they are still far too expensive for now...

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    Hi retroborg,

    Sure would be interested in your findings if you do decide to take the plunge and get one!

    a very interesting bit of kit.


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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    It would seem that the SLC SSD are the better ones, but they're way too expensive to buy one at the moment. The one I mentioned above is an MLC SSD and not that reliable as the SLC version.

    I guess I'll have to wait for this technology to ripe before I start spending my hard-earned cash on this...

    What about the fusionIO drive? Does it live up to its incredible claims? 600MB/s write and read??
    http://www.fusionio.com/Products.aspx

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    I keep warning people no tto buy SSD's yet because the price is too high, but maybe I should stop this act. The more people who buy them at these high prices, the quicker we get the price down
    hehehe.

    Yes, buy one, they're great!

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    I think they are now getting to a price point where they are maybe worth getting just as an OS
    drive. 30 GB is easily enough for XP and for only a $130 I think below is worth getting just for
    a bit of experimenting.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820183202

    How much does vista need though???

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    Interesting, this RiDATA NSSD is it SLC or MLC?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820183202

    But does it really matter for booting an O/S if it's SLC or MLC?
    I mean with these speeds:
    Sequential Access - Read 152Mb/s
    Sequential Access - Write 96MB/s

    and even the OCZ SSD 60GB (Sata II Core Series V2)
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227360

    Sequential Access - Read Up to 170 MB/s
    Sequential Access - Write Up to 98 MB/s

    They both put a 10000RPM HD to shame!

    I'm really considering of getting one...

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    SLC is better than MLC it is true but have you actually worked out how long it will take for the drive to fail? It is something ridiculous the mean time before failure for the OCZ units is 2 million (yes million!) hours that is a fairly long time I read a review which calculated that if you wrote 16GB of data a day to a 64GB drive that it would take something like 100 Years to get to the number of writes required to kill it. Even if it wrote over the same bit once a day it would take 27 years for that bit to reach its 10000 writes limit, and since the drives utilise wear levelling unless the drive is almost full you should not have an issue.

    Personally I still think they are too expensive a Western Digital 640GB AAKS will be plenty fast enough (make a 60GB (or smaller) partition for the OS) and will be quiet (obviously not as quiet as a solid state but pretty quiet all the same) and only cost you £45.

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    I think all the cheap ones are MLC, SLC ones are twice the price it seems.

    I think if the UK prices were equivalent to the now US prices I would get a 32 GB one, really in the
    UK they still need to half in price and how long is that going to take.. probably a year.

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    Behwardare have an article all SSD buyers should read.

    Basically, they're still a very immature technology and they do have their problems and limitations but may be worth looking at if you have money to spare and want to try something new.

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    Re: Solid State HD for WinXP Pro / Vista boot installation….

    Interesting read Endlesswaves, it seems its not particularly worth it with these cheap ones.
    However I do wonder how performance would be if you make some changes to your OS with just
    the OS on it. Like moving the Page file to the HDD along with mydocuments, temp folders
    and anything else like that.

    Anyone still interested it seems Scan are the cheapest for the OCZ 32 GB

    http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=855010
    Last edited by Kumagoro; 14-10-2008 at 08:18 PM.

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