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So who's made the leap to SSD?
bloody000:
You will find the speed of HDDs unbearable AFTER you lived with SSDs for a while. Whenever I boot into the Arch installation(Xfce desktop) on my WD black 640gb I feel like crawling through mud, but before I bought the X-25M it felt much snappier than Windows!
iindigo:
I really wouldn't care (I mean I've lived fine with 7200RPM drives for years now), but I'm completely serious when I say I feel like the hard drive is the only thing holding this machine back. The only time it's ever slow, the HD is rattling its head off, seeking the relevant pieces of data, while the rest of the system is just sitting bored and idle waiting for the HD to catch up.
Now that's not to say I can afford to upgrade right now, but if I get ahold of some extra cash you'd better believe it's happening.
mgz:
--- Quote from: iindigo on June 08, 2010, 03:01:30 PM ---I really wouldn't care (I mean I've lived fine with 7200RPM drives for years now), but I'm completely serious when I say I feel like the hard drive is the only thing holding this machine back. The only time it's ever slow, the HD is rattling its head off, seeking the relevant pieces of data, while the rest of the system is just sitting bored and idle waiting for the HD to catch up.
Now that's not to say I can afford to upgrade right now, but if I get ahold of some extra cash you'd better believe it's happening.
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if im not mistaken i believe scsi drives shit on current SSD drives in speed as well they are kinda obscenely fast from what i read at least the good ones is
bloody000:
--- Quote from: mgz on June 08, 2010, 11:26:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on June 08, 2010, 03:01:30 PM ---I really wouldn't care (I mean I've lived fine with 7200RPM drives for years now), but I'm completely serious when I say I feel like the hard drive is the only thing holding this machine back. The only time it's ever slow, the HD is rattling its head off, seeking the relevant pieces of data, while the rest of the system is just sitting bored and idle waiting for the HD to catch up.
Now that's not to say I can afford to upgrade right now, but if I get ahold of some extra cash you'd better believe it's happening.
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if im not mistaken i believe scsi drives shit on current SSD drives in speed as well they are kinda obscenely fast from what i read at least the good ones is
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Even the best 15k drive cannot match the seek time and throughput of a good SSD, the interface itself contains no magic. besides, there are plenty of ultra-expensive enterprise-grade SAS SSDs too.
Proin Drakenzol:
--- Quote from: xShadow on June 08, 2010, 10:22:39 AM ---Price: 80 dollars
Capacity: 1TB
So, we have 1024 gigabytes. Technically, that's going to be a bit less when formatted, but that's true with any drive, really, so I'm going to just scale it down to 1000 gigabytes as a small correction.
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Actually, it has nothing to do with "formatting" the drive. It's the way that a computer measures a gigabyte (the right way) and the way the manufacturers measure a gigabyte (the wrong way).
A computer measures 1 gigabyte as 1024 megabytes and 1 terabyte as 1024 gigabytes. The manufacturers measure 1 gigabytes as only 1000 megabytes and 1 terabyte as only 1000 gigabytes. Thus the difference.
The speed increase of two striped SSDs over a single (or even striped) HDDs cannot be overemphasized, however.
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