Solid State Drives; Who has them?

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Well I do.

I got them mainly for increased productivity.  I first got a kingston 40 gig ssdnow v series (Which is basically a gimped intel x-25 m with 5 banks instead of 10, does 170 read and 40 write), and two intel x-25 m 80 gig drives flashed for TRIM and 240 read 100 write.

Regular hard drives are now painfully slow.  Please don't ask me how much I padi for all of this...

So, when are each of you going to jump onto the ssd bandwagon?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

When they come down in price to today's price of regular hard drives.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's a good point as well.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Yea they may be fast and if you've got the extra cash more power to ya, but until they are at least somewhat competitive in size and price my PC won't be seeing one I'm afraid. With close to a TB I am scavenging for space. I couldn't imagine how much that would cost in SSDs.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a 128Gb SSD for Windows etc, it still has 89Gb free. My other drives are 2 x 1.5Tb, and 1 x 500Gb. Plenty of storage there :)

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

I'm planning to buy HDD with at least 250 gb because the Maxtor 80 gb that I have now is reaching his end, and maybe a 1tb or 1.5 SSD.

I have a 128Gb SSD for Windows etc, it still has 89Gb free. My other drives are 2 x 1.5Tb, and 1 x 500Gb.
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Fuzzy, are you trying to store the whole internets in there? ;P

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My Vaio lappy has a 128 SSD for the OS, some programmes and minimal user data that insists on being on C drive, rest is on a 500Gb regular drive, though I bought it for the Adobe screen and Adobe software so as to upgrade to their suites a lot cheaper, it is a great machine and so quiet. It does sit on a cold metal cooling pad though. Cost €2200 a year ago specs down since then and price up.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting DisturbedComputer, reply 8
I have a 1TB / 750GB / 500GB / 164GB 

my TB is my storage Drive free space is 555GB Used is 375GB ((Stardock is using 15.3GB at which their are 29,702 files, 3,908 Folders)) thats the app's and skins Icons png WP etc. etc.

500GB has XP Pro and Se7en Ultimate on it  split in half XP free 161GB Used 71.6GB  Se7en ? on XP right now

750BG and 164GB is back up to the back up

all internal drive but 2 are not in the PC use USB

 

I know like you care to know this info
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Are any of those solid state drives and not hard drives?  This topic isn't to list hard drives, only solid state.

If they are hard drives, let's try and stay (partially) on topic fellows.  It's okay to list your hard drives if you have solid state, but this topic could easily get derailed into listing hard drives and not solid state.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

1TB Seagate Sata2 7200 HD [x2] [redundancy backup/data]

500G WD Sata2 7200 HD [game backups]

250G Seagate Sata2 7200 HD [x2] [secondary/alternate OS installs in racks]

60G OCZ Summit SSD [for OS]

SSD is my limiter for Win Exp score....;p

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

The point of an SSD at this moment in time is not storage, that sheehat costs £££ per megabyte - you can't shovel crap onto it!

I have a 160 X25M Intelzor. Its great. I put win 7, photoshop, World of Warcraft and other essential programs there. Then I have a 1.5 TB seagate magnetic drive for other stuff. Then I have another 1.5TB drive on the network for backup.

Its SOO nice.

 

Seriously, get one.

 

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

i have one ordered. it was supposed to be here yesterday but ups never showed up. so, it'll be monday before i get to play with it. i see a major system reconfiguration happening monday afternoon or evening.

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

80Gb X25-M, with a 500Gb to hold photos/video.  Then a 1Tb backup external HD with Rebit installed.

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

I've got a 16 gb ssd in my netbook. The thing makes absolutely no noise for about five minutes after booting... then the fan comes on. It's pretty nice.

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Write drags my SSD down. Read is 225... 8C

Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top

well im still waiting for the price to fall to a more reasonable level
and fuzzy logic if your missing write speed on the drive you should get one of these
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid_state_drives/ocz_z_drive_p84_pci_express_ssd
i go in drewl mode when i se one of these
it has to use pci-express in order to keep up with op to 780 MB/s

Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 15
Write drags my SSD down. Read is 225...



Reduced 70%

Original 747 x 620
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What is your processor?  I have the 80 gig x-25 m for my main, with a 1tb internal, 300 gig internal, and 1 tb external as backup.

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Processor is an i7 920

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

3 x 80 GB X25-M G2 Intel SSDs in RAID 0

1 x WD HDD 500 GB

1 x WD HDD 1 TB

i7 920 @ 4 Ghz

6 GB DDR3 OCZ Reaper RAM @ 1600 Mhz

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

er.......whats a solid state drive?

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I wonder if SATA 3 at 6 GB/s will be as fast as a SSD drive.

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

3 x 80 GB X25-M G2 Intel SSDs in RAID 0, JcRabbit? WOW! I thought I was doing good getting just one of those.

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Seeing Photoshop open in 3 seconds flat is a real eye opener. :)   

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I don't have one as yet, but I hope later in the year to have at least one for my main rig... thinking about this one, an AData 128gb SSD.  It has a read speed of 250mb/s and write at 180mb/s at not too bad a price... $379.90 AUD.  It could be that they've come down inprice by the time I'm ready to buy, though.

Seeing Photoshop open in 3 seconds flat is a real eye opener.
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That'd be nice... it's claimed in the blurb that Win 7 on an AData 128gb SSD is fully loaded in under 20 seconds, which sounds pretty nice... it'd cut my current boot times by about 15 -18 seconds.

Reply #25 from Elemental Forums Top

er.......whats a solid state drive?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

Basically its a label for a device that has no moving parts. The current generation has more in common with a piece of RAM, than the more common variety of hard drives (which uses spinning magnetic disks).

They are supposed to work better, and they do cost more.