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That's crazy :D

 

SSD's are awesome though no doubt about it. I've got some OCZ Vertex SSD drives in my new PC build and it's insanely fast. Windows takes about 6-7 seconds to boot and be ready to start work....

 

I've got the 2 x OCZ drives in RAID for my operating system and then have all my games on a Spinpoint 1GB, works really nice :)

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I have been running a Corsair X64 for quite some time, only issue is that it needs a firmware update as it currently doesn't support TRIM, hence its performance has dropped off massively :(

 

Yeah I've heard that you need to becareful of the SSD you choose because of firmware issue...

 

 

Just waiting for their prices to come down a bit then I might invest one for my HTPC so it boots up faster and another for main PC :D

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That's crazy :D

 

SSD's are awesome though no doubt about it. I've got some OCZ Vertex SSD drives in my new PC build and it's insanely fast. Windows takes about 6-7 seconds to boot and be ready to start work....

 

I've got the 2 x OCZ drives in RAID for my operating system and then have all my games on a Spinpoint 1GB, works really nice :)

 

just curious though... why do you need x2 in RAID for O/S? I reckon running O/S on a single SSD should be enough?

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just curious though... why do you need x2 in RAID for O/S? I reckon running O/S on a single SSD should be enough?

 

Yeah, it's not really necessary, the real world performance isn't really a noticeable difference from 1 drive to 2. I ordered two drives by mistake and couldn't be bothered to send the other one back so I just put them together. I'll probably go back to one drive eventually and use the 2nd in another computer.

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I want that PC *Drool* Only problem with SSDs is you don't want to use them on something that is constantly writing shed loads of data as they gradually lose bytes after writing x number of times. As the OS drive fine but you might not want your games on it even though it would be bloody quick.

 

Myth, modern SSD's have TRIM support which keeps the drive fast over years of use

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I keep thinking about upgrading, I have 2 74GB 10,000RPM raptors at the moment and they are still nicely fast, whenever I use my folks PC with a single 7200RPM drive I have to let out a "ugh".

I have been looking at the corsair drivers at the moment, the only thing that worries me is that I read on tomshardware or anandtech that the write speed of some drivers isn't up to much, but then as most of it is going to be reading data it's probably not much of a problem. I wand 2 in raid 0 again though.

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SSDs have come a long way, especially ML flash over SL flash. Still don't beat spinning rust for large chunks of sequential read/write though, but yes random access I/O it's the mutt's nuts unless you have enough ram to pin things in.

 

Still awaiting racetrack memory to be fully designed and then get into SSDs... it'll make current flash based SSDs pitiful.

 

Wonder when Windows/OSX will get automatic tiering too... that'd be nice.

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SSD's are ok, i have 2 x Intel X25 in Raid 1 on my PC and boot up time to desktop is RAAAPID, however compared to ioDrives mine are rubbish :D... IMO these are the future of fast access... http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodriveduo/

 

Read and Writes at 1.5GB/s a second (A good standard magnetic drive is around 120MB/s reads, writes are usually shocking and a very good SSD is around 750MB/s and again writes are usually lower but not in all cases)

 

You cant use the ioDrives for boot as yet but once that has been supported on motherboards then programs will open like they are firmware!!

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Just curious but why are you running raid 1? I thought the general idea at least for home users was in the case that a traditional disk crapped out that you would have a spare to restore from, haven't heard of any of these getting toasted yet. I have looked at the crucial drives at the moment but ideally want at least 100GB space from the 2 disks in raid 0 to ensure enough space for general windows gumph. I have seen cheap 30GB drives but that seems a little too constrictive.

 

My only solid state experience comes from using a relatives netbook which had linux pre-isntalled. He said he couldn't get on with it and could I install XP, no problem I say. It took around 2 hours to install, after looking on the web the disk had a whopping maximum throughput of 700K a second! All drives are not equal :).

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