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So who's made the leap to SSD?
vuzedome:
Game load times do reduce significantly, but depending on the game as well.
matoakit:
I am running a server with a 60GB X25-E (Yes the very expensive SLC model)
It was not my money that bought it, and WOW is it fast. Multi user (50+) MS server 2008 SQL stuff blazes on that drive.
I also have two Ridata 32GB SSD's in RAID 1 for data backup on the same server.
In my personal Panasonic Toughbook I also installed a 16GB SLC SSD. (~$370 for the laptop and ~$200 for the ssd drive) It runs very fast, and I would hope very reliable, it is very short on space though.
Pros:
Very fast and should be very reliable. (SLC TYPE lasts 10x as long and is twice as a fast as the MLC type)
Very low power usage.
Cons:
So expensive it makes me sad!
Very low storage space unless you cheap out on the larger MLC drives, or have buckets of money to spend on the SLC drives.
Reviewed units:
2x 32GB Samsung SLC 1.8". Bought for a song on newegg, $100 two years ago. They stopped making them, even though they worked perfectly. 10/10 $100 + $20 ebay 1.8" to sata adapter. My main home PC is using one for the OS drive. (320GB mechanical drive for large file storage)
60GB Intel X-25E SLC AWESOME, but AWESOMELY expensive! I trust their reliability. 10/10 $700/ea
4x Ridata 32GB SLC SATA, no problems, not as fast as the Intel drive. 8/10 $130/ea
60GB OCZ MLC drive, had serious problems, crashed the server until it was removed. Had to flash the drive firmware to get it to work. I still don't trust it with any valuable data, very high price for poor reliability. 5/10 $350
16GB SLC PATA Transcend, so far very fast and reliable, however I have not figured out TRIM on XP, so performance may eventually suffer. 7/10 $200
16GB SLC SATA Ridata, gets very hot and first unit burned out after three months, replacement unit is overheating as well. It is a very poor design and probably not to SATA spec. I do not trust this drive with any valuable data, and I would avoid this size from this brand. 2/10 $70
I would avoid the MLC drives in the future, the point is to have longevity and speed, and MLC does not do well at either.
Just my $.02
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sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: iindigo on June 16, 2010, 09:16:28 AM ---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.
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Crysis is horrible with this. Granted the game is horrible, period, but this just makes it all the more unplayable.
Spanks:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on June 16, 2010, 12:08:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on June 16, 2010, 09:16:28 AM ---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.
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Crysis is horrible with this. Granted the game is horrible, period, but this just makes it all the more unplayable.
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Played Crysis the other day after not touching it for many months and I've realized it is technically a very inferior game to fps/sandbox that have been released lately and it doesn't even look that good comparatively. Though it was released 2 years ago.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: iindigo on June 16, 2010, 09:16:28 AM ---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.
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As you said yourself, the only benefit is during "loading" sessions. I games like Risen where the new areas load continuously and removes the need to load when you get from one are to another, a faster HD will not give a better performance.
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