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So who's made the leap to SSD?
iindigo:
After using a decently modern machine for a three or four months (quad 2.66 core i5), it's become quite clear to me that the main bottleneck in the system is the stupid old mechanical hard drive. Its high capacity is nice (1TB) but damn, when the rest of your system is decent it really makes the HD's slowness stick out like a sore thumb.
Because of this, I'd like to upgrade to an SSD, at least for the main system and most-used software, at some point in the future. How many of you have already done something similar, and how has it worked out for you?
mgz:
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 28, 2010, 12:59:40 AM ---After using a decently modern machine for a three or four months (2.66 core i5), it's become quite clear to me that the main bottleneck in the system is the stupid old mechanical hard drive. Its high capacity is nice (1TB) but damn, when the rest of your system is decent it really makes the HD's slowness stick out like a sore thumb.
Because of this, I'd like to upgrade to an SSD, at least for the main system and most-used software, at some point in the future. How many of you have already done something similar, and how has it worked out for you?
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... get a raptor, shits on slower HDDs and is mechanical thus more reliable atm then the currently overpriced SSD market
iindigo:
--- Quote from: mgz on May 28, 2010, 01:00:59 AM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 28, 2010, 12:59:40 AM ---After using a decently modern machine for a three or four months (2.66 core i5), it's become quite clear to me that the main bottleneck in the system is the stupid old mechanical hard drive. Its high capacity is nice (1TB) but damn, when the rest of your system is decent it really makes the HD's slowness stick out like a sore thumb.
Because of this, I'd like to upgrade to an SSD, at least for the main system and most-used software, at some point in the future. How many of you have already done something similar, and how has it worked out for you?
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... get a raptor, shits on slower HDDs and is mechanical thus more reliable atm then the currently overpriced SSD market
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Well I'd agree, but from everything I've seen, SSDs completely outclass any type of mechanical HD (yes, even the 10,000RPM ones) in speed - as in, there's simply no comparison.
kureshii:
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 28, 2010, 12:59:40 AM ---Because of this, I'd like to upgrade to an SSD, at least for the main system and most-used software, at some point in the future. How many of you have already done something similar, and how has it worked out for you?
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There's a bunch of us (~5) on #bakabt with Intel X25-M SSDs, and we're all loving it so far. Much faster booting and app-loading. Can't speak for the OSX experience though, since we're all either on Windows or Linux.
If you want names and more details, drop by the channel and ask! :)
Mag-X:
Meh... I'd love to have one, but their capacities are just too low. Until I can get 250GB+, I'm not interested.
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