SSD advice

[nibbler]

Which drive(s) did you get then?

[no_numb]

I got 2 of the 40gb kingston ssdnow drives

[Lunar Wolf]

Definatly gonna have to get an SSD for my lappy, but just big enough for the OS and core applications. Price per gig is still too high to pay for anymore knowing that in years to come it'll likely end up being cheaper then traditional HDDs...

[Englander]

I'm very tempted to purchase a 40GB Kingston SSD, what are your thoughts so far no numb?

[no_numb]

I'm very tempted to purchase a 40GB Kingston SSD, what are your thoughts so far no numb?

Sorry I cant really offer any advice yet as I dont have anything on them. I have set them up in raid but have failed to find a program that is free and will clone my hard drive onto them so I'm waiting a week or so and then transfering files onto my external hard disk (still at my uni house) then installing a fresh copy of windows. (or I might back up and then make a disk image using windows and try it that way.

[Perfectionist]

AnandTech: The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD, August 30th, 2009

[Englander]

I took the plunge and picked one up from CCLonline. Apparently it's due tomorrow even with the free delivery option, which is nice. The problem is, I falsely assumed I had a 2.5" bay in my case, which I actually don't. In the short term, is that a problem?

[no_numb]

Did you buy the desktop kit or just the drive? The desktop kit comes with adaptor brackets if not I've seen people mounting them in wierd ways (tape etc) but I'm not sure how good this is.

[Englander]

Did you buy the desktop kit or just the drive? The desktop kit comes with adaptor brackets if not I've seen people mounting them in wierd ways (tape etc) but I'm not sure how good this is.

Nope, I went for the marginally cheaper non-kit version. I'm pretty sure it'll be alright for a while, seeing as one of the selling points for an SSD is their lack of moving parts -> resilience to knocks.

[nibbler]

just dont put it on anything where it'll get hot or is likely to fall

[Lunar Wolf]

OCZ have a new one on the way, great early reviews from Anand so the finished retail version should be some real competition to Intel. Vertex 2 with Sandforce controller.

[Englander]

My Kingston arrived today! Very handy considering it's a snow day so I've got the whole day to fiddle about installing the OS again. First impressions are: it's very nippy. The desktop certainly feels more responsive.

Out of interest, is there any good benchmarking software I can use to compare my SSD to my WD 640GB?

[dangel]

I have two kingston drives - one in the media center (which now wakes literally instantly due to no need to spin anything up!) and one in the wife's PC. Highly recommended.

[mikemikemi]

My Kingston arrived today! Very handy considering it's a snow day so I've got the whole day to fiddle about installing the OS again. First impressions are: it's very nippy. The desktop certainly feels more responsive.

Out of interest, is there any good benchmarking software I can use to compare my SSD to my WD 640GB?

I have two kingston 40GB in raid 0, great upgrade from my 74gb raptor.

Boot times are lower even with added raid initialisation and computer is useable much sooner once you can see the desktop.

AS SSD Benchmark is commonly used and so is HD Tach.

I had ~400mb/s reads and ~80mb/s writes on HD Tach, couldn't seem to get AS to work.

[Englander]

I have two kingston 40GB in raid 0, great upgrade from my 74gb raptor.

Boot times are lower even with added raid initialisation and computer is useable much sooner once you can see the desktop.

AS SSD Benchmark is commonly used and so is HD Tach.

I had ~400mb/s reads and ~80mb/s writes on HD Tach, couldn't seem to get AS to work.

AS SSD worked for me. ~180MB/s seq. read and ~40MB/s seq. write - pretty much exactly what it says on the tin

[Shooty*]

I really, really want one of the 40gb kingstons, but can't find them anywhere for love nor money.

I assume with the intel controlelrs, they've fixed the issue which got them a STEER CLEAR rating in Custom PC back in November?