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Lonewolf5460:
What the hell are you even going on about I was using a virus scanner as an example af a i/o intensive function if you never had a program lock up while doing something that is i/o intensive your not who I am talking about when I recommend a ssd. You keep you computer on 24/7 boot times are not an issue for you then if you are saying 7200 rpm yet alone a 5400 and your not noticing slow downs you must not multi task. Do this on a regular hard drive have a virtual machine open doing something mildly intensive like encoding a video and start video editing on your main os.
Also I know a virus can kill my files that is why I have a hard drive dedicated to fresh downloads they are scanned many times then put on permanent storage I am not a noob.
You sound like an average user not my problem just because you cant see the benefit does not mean you are right.
Also I don't every copy anything between my hard drives, some proper file management skills and knowing how to point your torrents and programs where to save is more than enough.
--- Quote from: isukianime on May 12, 2011, 10:23:29 PM ---i'm going to wait till they've fixed the cold boot issue that the SSD drives seem to have.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ssd+not+detected+on+boot&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&aq=1&aqi=g3g-j3g-m4&aql=&oq=ssd+not+detected
I have seen that cold boot issue never ran into it myself but if happens just rma and get another.
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kitamesume:
i`m seeding a chunk load of torrents(49 to be precise) with a 5400rpm drive, playing a mmorpg game right now, has firefox opened with 17tabs, has my audio synthesizer doing mic morphing right now, has both yahoo and msn opened and to top it all off, i`m currently transfering 34files of 100gb(the downloaded torrents is being duplicated and arranged, manually by me). and i dont suffer any slow downs, later on i`ll be editing my anime that i downloaded to get those freakin OP/ED off.
the reason i need to transfer my files is that i have two computers(leave the other two off, got a total of 4rigs, 1celly(was the HTPC but sold the other main rig(E7500 c2d)),1 i3(newly bought htpc), 1 sempron(backup pc), 1 athlon II x4(my old gaming rig, on standby for visitors to use) while i do have a couple of pentium# in the attic), my main is what i use to download, i have to transfer it into my htpc so thats why i`m duplicating files from harddrive to harddrive, take it off and plug it in my htpc, voala, i can seed while i`m editing my animes.
Note: once you edited a file, it's hash will change, you may no longer use it to seed. duplicating is a must.
PS: my mmorpg game only runs on windowsXP i`m using windows 7 right now, get what i`m doing? got a virual OS running on background.
Edit: ohh yea, to make it more troll-like post, my main PC is a Celeron E3300(which i use to game and to edit files) while my HTPC is a newly bought i3 2100, wth right? so kewl. later on i`d be buying an ivybridge rig for the main pc =D meh... not like anyone cares.
Lonewolf5460:
Ok whatever you say that does sound pretty harsh for a mechanical drive you must have one of the newer ones with good read speeds.
Mine give me 90+ mbs reads and I know the newer ones can do bursts of 110. I am not missing it on my desktop all too much but I still notice slow downs and a random lock up or 2 on Firefox and Photoshop but i have way over 40 tabs opened so that may just be Firefox.
I cant wait to get that new one for my desktop I find my self using my laptop more than i would just because it is a lot snappier you know when you hear the hard drive when your waiting for something to load that would be done on a ssd. Even with the huge difference in processing power my laptop feels faster doing normal things.
Edit
I still stand by my statement tell me where an hundred bucks would make a better improvement all you have told me is why hard drives are good enough. Also I was thinking you can multitask like that you must have your swap file disabled. Making it mostly between your ram and cpu that seems the most likely case especially since you keep it on all the time windows 7 would have cached everything for you anyways. That is how my desktop is set right now an your right it is defiantly something I can live with but not good enough for me.
kitamesume:
just add "i`m waiting for SSDs to be cheaper on Price/GB" cant hurt to add one more option cant it?
anyway, SSDs are indeed nice to have, its just too expensive to be considered "worth it" if you plan to use it anything other than a bootdrive.
Lonewolf5460:
I will add it.
Seems like we are on the same page It is only a reasonable option as a boot drive anything else right now is way too expensive for anything else.
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