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Lonewolf5460:
Hey guys whats up just want your views on this technology.
I have an older Intel ssd that is rated for 190 read and 35 write but I get 220 reads and 40 writes and I never had a slowdown and my laptop boots in under 10 seconds to the log in screen. With the proper tweaks I have got my windows 7 install under 14 gigs, right now I have 19 gigs free with Office Photoshop Nero and a few other things installed. Also if your worried about reliability my experience with the intel drive which I have had for well over a year under heavy use, and even with 2 gigs free, (I loaded it up with videos for the test) I was able to get 200+ read. The people that say these things are not ready for prime time are blind to the fact of how awesome it is to have your core apps and windows 7 on a ssd . Photoshop loads in 4-6 seconds on a 1.73 ghz core 2 duo laptop.
So who here has a ssd and what has been your experience with them?
My view is even the SSD market a year ago the 99 dollars I spent on my SSD was the best performance boost I have seen in years and it is just getting better. Also even though my SSD is an outdated "budget" one I am so irritated when I use a pc without one it is like night and day. Most of the time when my programs hung in windows is directly attributed to how the hard drive could not supply info to the program, I have not seen a lock up in a long while.
I am getting this one for my desktop 280 read speed 270 write. I had my Intel one in my desktop but I decide to move it over to my laptop for the benefit of resuming from hibernation is literally a second.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233177
My intel one has a lowly 35 mbs write speed but you would not know once to OS and programs are installed and that is the most intensive writes you will do, especially for a boot drive the writes are not important but I would be lying if I was not exited to see the difference between the two.
They are too small to hold your movies and stuff but that is where traditional hard drives come in, as a boot drive this is a steal. You can look and price per gig and say it is too expensive but the overall performance boost is immense. Where else can you spend 85 bucks and see such a dramatic performance boost? If you could have a performance / price metric a SSD would win, you could spend an extra hundred on a slightly more powerful cpu and not notice it normally it but you will defiantly notice the difference of an 85 dollar ssd with every click you make.
It is the best thing since on die integrated L1 cache.
kitamesume:
add "i`m waiting for SSDs to become cheaper on Price Per GB"
and yes i own an OCZ agility 2 40gb, i got it for 55$ from a 50% off on all harddisks if i buy something worth 50$ or more.(still heluva expensive, could've bought a 500gb for 40$ with that harddisk sale)
it was a big improvement of 10sec boot(slowest) considering my old hdd boots 20sec(slowest) from 0 to surf.
Lonewolf5460:
I think that "I am waiting for more improvements capacity/speed" covers that
Anyways price per gig is irrelevant unless you planning to have everything on your ssd like on a laptop. On my laptop I have a 16 gig SD card to hold my music and other data and it is networked so all my anime and movies stays on my desktop. You will get the majority of the benefits using it as a boot drive. As I said tell me anywhere else in a computer you could spend a hundred bucks and see such a dramatic improvement.
If anyone is in the market for a laptop look for one with dual bays and have a 750 gig as a secondary and the ssd as a primary.
kitamesume:
no, it doesnt cover the price/gb
and no, i meant is that the SSDs are too expensive to be useful enough, unless you really need that speed so badly, you could just stick with the cheaper 7200rpm, heck 10,000rpms are even less expensive than those SSDs on GB per GB comparison.
Lonewolf5460:
You never used one huh I thought the same, I have had 34 gig raptors on raid zero they dont compare, latency is not your friend. The performance difference is huge changing a few settings is very simple to do you dont store video and music on it that is a waste of space as those files wont see the speed improvement. Your os and major programs that is all you need on it. Is it so hard to have steam and your games point to your secondary drive? Or do what I did with my laptop, it took me 2 minutes to network my desktops storage to my laptop your making it seem like a big deal which it is not.
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