Thorin Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 I've a SSD drive in my home PC, I was expecting it to be lightning fast. Can't say I've noticed, and the Windows 7 speed rating thing or whatever it is only gave it an average score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Plethora Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 I think you get what you pay for with SSD's. I have 2 74GB raptors in raid 0 its its still amazingly fast even after a 2 year old install. Wish I had the money for a raid 0 SSD raid . One of my folks friends asked me to put windows xp on their netboox that came with 'some odd looking screen'...they meant linux and they would never survive. Anyway I installed XP on this hunk of junk and it must have taken 2 hours or more. I read some diagnostics and this woeful 8GB SSD it shipped with was transferring something like 800k a second! completely unusuable for windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 I think you get what you pay for with SSD's. I have 2 74GB raptors in raid 0 its its still amazingly fast even after a 2 year old install. Wish I had the money for a raid 0 SSD raid . One of my folks friends asked me to put windows xp on their netboox that came with 'some odd looking screen'...they meant linux and they would never survive. Anyway I installed XP on this hunk of junk and it must have taken 2 hours or more. I read some diagnostics and this woeful 8GB SSD it shipped with was transferring something like 800k a second! completely unusuable for windows. Acer Aspire by any chance?? EDIT: There is a way to upgrade these, does involve a lot of dismantling as the SSD is RIGHT underneath, but you can put an ipod drive in there and put a bit more memory, makes the world of a difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Gav, I think the Hybrid's will be a great NAS drive in the future 4Gb of SSD space will boost GigE transfer rates and make sure films etc dont have any issues. I'm gunna try a PCIe SSD Revo drive next in my PC and have nothing else in the PC....then have a 2TB (2 drives Raid 1) NAS holding the important stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo2810 Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Not necessarily true, it is VERY dependant on the drive format over the top, yes FAT/FAT32 used to work that way, but some of the newer ext4/jfs/gfs layouts use a intelligence in the layout of the files. I'm not so sure on NTFS or it's intelligence(read lack of). Guys, we're talking about a simple home setup, likely to be Windows 7 using NTFS. He's unlikely to be running Linux so ext4/jfs/gfs are irrelevant. NTFS enhancements are mainly aimed at server applications and the read/write structure is not far off FAT. You're right, however, in that partitioning will benefit seek times but not noticably on a simple home setup. If you want performance and are not worried about redundancy, then RAID0 is the way to go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Guys, we're talking about a simple home setup, likely to be Windows 7 using NTFS. He's unlikely to be running Linux so ext4/jfs/gfs are irrelevant. NTFS enhancements are mainly aimed at server applications and the read/write structure is not far off FAT. You're right, however, in that partitioning will benefit seek times but not noticably on a simple home setup. If you want performance and are not worried about redundancy, then RAID0 is the way to go... Actually, read speed is faster with RAID 1 mirroring as it can read two drives simultaneously if that's more important. You can also stripe a mirror too can't you? Noticeably faster when loading game levels like in 'Crysis' but not suggesting Mr. Simpson would need it for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo2810 Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Actually, read speed is faster with RAID 1 mirroring as it can read two drives simultaneously if that's more important. You can also stripe a mirror too can't you? Noticeably faster when loading game levels like in 'Crysis' but not suggesting Mr. Simpson would need it for that. Ah yes, you're also right, but only with a good controller running Linux. Again, here we're talking about a simple win7 setup. Good discussion point though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Ah yes, you're also right, but only with a good controller running Linux. Again, here we're talking about a simple win7 setup. Good discussion point though Not meaning to hijack the thread, though I think Homer has his answer already, is Win7 worth the upgrade from Vista 64 Ultimate? I'm very happy with it and don't need the hassle or expense (yet again!) and have had no compatibility issues except Call of Duty 2 that I started on XP but the auto defragging (which I haven't looked into resolving) annoys me in my gaming rig with two Raptors scrunching away like Woodpeckers on speed! I'll watch a few features/review vids etc. but not in any hurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 Thanks guys for all the advice offered, very useful indeed! I've gone with the following: - Primary HDD: 2TB (300GB for C, remaining 1.52TB as D) - Secondary HDD: 320GB (E, with the swapfile on and a backup of the C drive) The 80GB drive is junked It is now massively faster than before (not to mention quieter), boots up in 25s and now has very little delay in windows (before it was constantly accessing the disk and causing pauses) Moving the swap file from the primary drive to the secondary did make a noticable improvement when running several memory heavy apps, particularly when switching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Thanks guys for all the advice offered, very useful indeed! I've gone with the following: - Primary HDD: 2TB (300GB for C, remaining 1.52TB as D) - Secondary HDD: 320GB (E, with the swapfile on and a backup of the C drive) It is now massively faster than before (not to mention quieter), boots up in 25s and now has very little delay in windows (before it was constantly accessing the disk and causing pauses) Moving the swap file from the primary drive to the secondary did make a noticable improvement when running several memory heavy apps, particularly when switching. Get yourself a half decent 4GB USB stick, they aren't expensive and assign it to ReadyBoost, will make even more difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 Get yourself a half decent 4GB USB stick, they aren't expensive and assign it to ReadyBoost, will make even more difference Not heard of that before, will have a read up... I've got a 64GB USB stick from work (pre-production), would it still work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Not heard of that before, will have a read up... I've got a 64GB USB stick from work (pre-production), would it still work? If you are happy to throw the 64gb at it, win 7 does support it.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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