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So who's made the leap to SSD?
Asako:
I have the 80Gb Intel in my new box (was just resetting more bookmarks/passwords, thus current browsing of the forum here). I love it a lot.
How can you not like
A lot of people complain about low capacity, and poor write speeds, but to me SSDs are all about the massive read speeds, and incredibly low access times. It's still a young technology but it is evolving; with SATA3 (6.0) controllers slowly entering the market we're seeing even more ridiculous speeds and lower access times; the new Sandforce drives look great, but I wasn't prepared to pay quite that high a premium at this point in time, especially when Marvel's SATA3 controller (the only one out atm) is so poor. Another year or so should see a great deal of improvement.
Spanks:
^ Thanks for a bit of real world stats
SSD seemed very tempting until I realized I still couldn't see myself fitting win7 + programs + games(not forgetting page-file + system protection + overhead) on anything less a 300GB SSD.
Proin Drakenzol:
--- Quote from: Spanks on June 16, 2010, 08:36:25 AM ---^ Thanks for a bit of real world stats
SSD seemed very tempting until I realized I still couldn't see myself fitting win7 + programs + games(not forgetting page-file + system protection + overhead) on anything less a 300GB SSD.
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you don't put your games on the SSD. The primary system performance boost comes from having the OS + Page File on the SSD.
iindigo:
There's really no speed benefit from putting games on the SSD? I find that hard to believe, because when I'm playing WoW and I move into a data-heavy area that I haven't visited yet that session, for 2-6 seconds there's a burst of severe visual (framerate) lag from the game waiting for the HD to seek all the necessary files. After that it's smooth as butter.
Spanks:
--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on June 16, 2010, 09:09:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: Spanks on June 16, 2010, 08:36:25 AM ---^ Thanks for a bit of real world stats
SSD seemed very tempting until I realized I still couldn't see myself fitting win7 + programs + games(not forgetting page-file + system protection + overhead) on anything less a 300GB SSD.
--- End quote ---
you don't put your games on the SSD. The primary system performance boost comes from having the OS + Page File on the SSD.
--- End quote ---
You make a good point a lot of the games data is put in the page file on start-up but not all of it is for some games and it still has to get いnto the page file in the first place．The games I play (total War game) spends Half its time reading and writing to the ram and HDD. Anyone have anymore information on having the games or just the OS on the SSD?
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