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So who's made the leap to SSD?
nstgc:
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 29, 2010, 12:19:30 AM ---I really want to get away from mechanical drives. Yeah they're cheap, but they're noisy, they're hot, they're not all that fast anymore, and they all have the possibility of just hunkering up and dying at any given moment.
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It depends on the drive. With the exception of my 500GB Seagate, all my other drives that I've used for any appreciable amount of time (the WD drives I buy tend to die within days...bad lot probably), have been fairly quiet. My 5 160GB SG drives are inaudible unless under full load and my Samsungs (1 of each: 1TB and 2TB) are silent under full load. I also purchased fans that don't make a lot of noise. In particular my front fan is rated at 8dB, my CPU fan is silent unless under heavy load, and I can't hear the fan in the back due to its location. The only fan I can hear is the GPU fan and thats when I'm playing any game. The point is, my fans aren't that loud, and neither are my drives if you exclude that POS SG.
fohfoh:
Aren't there a few seagates that run at like 5800 rpm instead of 5400?
mgz:
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 29, 2010, 12:19:30 AM ---I really want to get away from mechanical drives. Yeah they're cheap, but they're noisy, they're hot, they're not all that fast anymore, and they all have the possibility of just hunkering up and dying at any given moment.
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scsi drives are drives made for use in server they are pretty much the six million dollar man of HDDs running at 15k rpm and designed to be used 24/7
kyanwan:
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 29, 2010, 12:19:30 AM ---I really want to get away from mechanical drives. Yeah they're cheap, but they're noisy, they're hot, they're not all that fast anymore, and they all have the possibility of just hunkering up and dying at any given moment.
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Technically SSD is "moving" at a microscopic level. The memory is a big array of switches. ;)
So a perfect SSD would have an insanely long MTBF - which is when the actual "moving" circuitry wears out.
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I've used SCSI in a desktop before- the performance was noticeable.
The drives - like said - are faster RPM, better quality, bigger caches, they take CPU load off the system ( drives and cards have integrated CPUs ). If you're using them standalone, they'll give you a bit of a boost. If you're using them in a RAID array, they'll burn like crazy.
Speaking of burn - they really do get hot too. When I had a 3 drive 10k RPM cage - that thing was like a heater.
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I wouldn't bother with the 5k drives. 7200 or 10K. Pretty bad when just a faster spin = more performance.
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Anyway - seriously - speaking of these drives ... I saw the first IDE flash chips come out way back when from M-systems. I was sitting around talking with some friends about how kick ass it would be to play Quake 1 on those things.
Man - the more I talk about it - the more I want to grab some of the hardware I once dreamed of. ^^
bloody000:
X-25M 34nm 80GB here. I will never want to boot from consumer-grade HDD again. it's that good.
And I probably would be married and had kids before it fails. the durability issue is completely overblown: even at a modest 10,000 cycles with 3.0x write amplification, you are looking at over 70GB per day non-stop for 10 years(80GB drive). of course this is assuming wear levelling work as intended.
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