Advice on a SSD

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4100/o...ndforce-sf2000

"You get better minimum performance on the SF-2582 than peak performance on the SF-1200/SF-1500."

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Originally Posted by Phage

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4100/o...ndforce-sf2000

"You get better minimum performance on the SF-2582 than peak performance on the SF-1200/SF-1500."

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Interesting. Of course the crunch will be .... at what price? That, I guess, is a case of wait 'n' see.

My problem is that it's not just performance that matters, but cost-effectiveness. If the price goes up (and my bet is, at least for awhile, it will), their attractiveness goes down.

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Originally Posted by badass

Idiots guide - day to day use you'll not notice the difference however they may well engineer them to last longer. Though I doubt it. If you shift large files from one SSD to memory/another SSD regularily however you'll likely see a near doubling of performance.
Eraly SSD's had big problems with small random writes that simply made them junk and worse than HDD's
Since then, there's been a focus on 4k write IOPS as well as sequential peak performance. Anything more than 10,000 4k write IOPS for a desktop is irrelevant. There is no usage pattern that can sustain that. It's like the difference between getting 120fps and 240 fps no a game.

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Thanks, badass. But in the first bit, are you referring to SF2000 versus first gen, or SSD versus HD?

If the latter, it's really the impact of the new controllers I was getting at.

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Originally Posted by Saracen

How did you set it up for photo use? System drive, or a dedicated Photoshop scratch drive? If the latter, how much difference did it make?

Last time I tried an SSD (as a system drive), it sure made a difference, and it improved boot times, but my system isn't sluggish as it is, and while there was improvement, there wasn't enough to, for me, the cost to be justified. Others, of course, may have a different value judgement, and a perfectly valid one.

But I didn't try it as a PS scratch disk. I use a dedicated WD 640GB Blue for that.

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I didn't try a PS scratch disk, owing to lack of PS :( I use the GIMP, which just uses the system page file, which I have put on the SSD. Honestly I hadn't used GIMP enough with the new computer prior to putting the SSD in to give a definitive answer - I've got more RAM anyway so a speed up was inevitable.

I've just tried forcing GIMP to use the page file by restricting the RAM cache and the performance was almost identical, so yes, if you were paging before then it effectively removes any negatives for doing so (in GIMP). But RAM is cheap these days as well.

I got a 60gb vertex 2e and with win7 64bit, vs2010, office, ps plus others its pretty much done for. I may reformat and take office off and chuck it on the data bucket drive.

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Originally Posted by Saracen

Thanks, badass. But in the first bit, are you referring to SF2000 versus first gen, or SSD versus HD?

If the latter, it's really the impact of the new controllers I was getting at.

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I was referring to SF2000 vs earlier competent SSD's so my comments were on the impact of the new controllers. IMHO they will be irrelevant for the vast majority of usage cases compared to a current generation decent SSD.