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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: dada on March 13, 2010, 10:31:16 am
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Man these things are worth every red penny. I got the Intel Postville 80GB (http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/243735/intel-postville-ssdsa2mh080g2c1-80gb.html) (SSDSA2MH080G2C1) which cost me €190 ($260.40). I installed it in my late 2008 white Macbook and performance has gone up pretty much across the board. Applications usually start nearly instantly now.
For those who haven't heard of SSDs yet, it stands for "solid state drive" and they're basically the next generation hard drives. The technology is much like the kind used in USB sticks and features write and (particularly) read speeds that most conventional drives can't compare to.
Anybody else here got an SSD? What is your experience with them?
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i've always wanted one, but most of what i do (light photoshop, internet, gaming) runs fine past the initial load times. a decent SSD will definitely be in my next build though.
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I've been thinking of getting a couple 30GB ones and putting them in a RAID0 setup on my desktop for a boot drive. My buddy who habitually drops ridiculous money on computer equipment(AutoCAD junkie) has 3 128GB SSDs in RAID0 and everything blinks on really quick, there's no loading for anything including the OS splash screen on startup and it feels significantly faster than any other hardware or software upgrade I've seen.
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I would love to build a new PC around a few SSD drives but damn do they cost money if you want some real space. :(
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I've been thinking of getting a couple 30GB ones and putting them in a RAID0 setup on my desktop for a boot drive. My buddy who habitually drops ridiculous money on computer equipment(AutoCAD junkie) has 3 128GB SSDs in RAID0 and everything blinks on really quick, there's no loading for anything including the OS splash screen on startup and it feels significantly faster than any other hardware or software upgrade I've seen.
I've never had a RAID setup myself so I don't know much about them, but you should definitely try because it really is worth the upgrade at any price. I suppose it might be cheaper to run a number of 30 GB ones in tandem as long as you have the physical space.
But yeah, it feels to me like I just got a whole new computer. It basically eradicated the entire problem of paging.
I would love to build a new PC around a few SSD drives but damn do they cost money if you want some real space. :(
Yeah, that's too bad. I got an 80 GB one even though I had a 160 GB internal hard drive at first. Which wasn't much either, but it really means I have to stop storing so much junk. After installing my system and my most important applications I find I still have quite a lot of space to go for active projects, and everything else including music and video is stored away on my 1 TB external.
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i wish computers used roms more. acorn had the OS on rom modules and you booted instantly. i wish computers used roms more.
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I've never had a RAID setup myself so I don't know much about them, but you should definitely try because it really is worth the upgrade at any price. I suppose it might be cheaper to run a number of 30 GB ones in tandem as long as you have the physical space.
SSDs scale really well in a RAID0 setup which basically stripes data across the two drives so they're both reading and writing at the same time which pretty much doubles the speed. The windows splash screen doesn't even display, it pretty much goes from POST to desktop.
i wish computers used roms more. acorn had the OS on rom modules and you booted instantly. i wish computers used roms more.
RISC and ROMs
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yessssss
i think ssd is closer to 10x the speed of a mechanical disc though but i guess for the same price you could get loads of mechanical discs. long way of saying nothing again.
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after looking into it, i bought an OCZ Agility 64GB Laptop Drive (http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid_state_drives/ocz_agility_series_sata_ii_2_5-ssd) with TRIM. probably be here next wednesday. i'll let you know how it goes.
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Just put an Intel X25-M 80GB in my desktop and it is fantastic. I already had great hardware, but you just don't realize how much a standard harddrive bottlenecks your computer's speed.
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yeah. difference is night and day. my computer boots in half the time and all my apps pretty much start up instantly.
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uh do I need a laptop from like, 2009 to install this or is it backwards compatible etc
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i don't know if you can get IDE ssd drives but if it supports sata it should be sweet