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Solid State Drives; Who has them?

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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 #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wonder when we will see isolinear chips like in Star Trek.

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I got a 120GB SSD about 6 months ago... I put Windows 7 and my programs on it.  But I keep all my files on my 500Gb HD.

i7 920 processor OC'd to 3.2GHz.

Star Control: Origins
Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

SSD's are nice, if you have the cash. They'll probably be standard equipment 10 years from now.

Most people do not need them, though. It is one thing to want the speed, and quite another to really need the speed.

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

thanx divinewrath - i dont feel so ignorant now :)

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Moosetek13, reply 28
SSD's are nice, if you have the cash. They'll probably be standard equipment 10 years from now.
End of Moosetek13's quote

Definitely. SSDs going mainstream is pretty much the death toll for hard disk drives.

Quoting Moosetek13, reply 28
Most people do not need them, though. It is one thing to want the speed, and quite another to really need the speed.
End of Moosetek13's quote

That is very true. For most of the tasks the average user does, it doesn't really matter how fast the system is (provided you have enough RAM, of course). A RAID 0 array of 3 SSD drives does not make my web browsing experience any faster, for instance. Doesn't make me code any faster either, hehe, although at times I wish it did. :)

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Strange, my Intel SSD scores a bit higher than I thought it would. My over all score with a Intel Q9550 Quad core is a tad higher than the i7's I see listed.

As far as the scores go, this is the first one I've seen that everything scored evenly.

CPU: Intel Q9550 Quad @ 2.83
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Ram: G.SKILL 8GB DDR2 1000
Graphics: EVGA GTX260SC
Main Hard drive: Intel X25-V SSD
Other Hard drives:
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB internal SATA
Western Digital My Book 1TB External eSATA
Western Digital My Book 500GB External USB
Optical Drive: LG Blu-ray player - DVD burner

 

Reply #32 from Stardock Forums Top

That depends on overclocking.  My core i7 scores 7.4 on stock.

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Mine's all stock...I need to replace the CPU fan before I try to overclock.

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That depends on overclocking. My core i7 scores 7.4 on stock.
End of quote

My i7 920 is 7.5

Reply #35 from Elemental Forums Top

I'll get one when the 150GB version is cheap or my Raptor 10.000RPM dies.

 

There's a new generation of SSDs coming though!

A review of an SSD with the new technology:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/3118/crucial_realssd_c300_256gb_sata_6gbps_solid_state_disk/index.html

 

 

The breakthrough:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3731

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DivineWrath, reply 25

er.......whats a solid state drive?
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.
End of DivineWrath's quote

Unless you do a lot of number crunching and or graphics or are an extreme gamer. The cost for an everyday home user is not worth the money at this point in time. I could afford one just for the OS. I have enough storage already 2 1.5 TB internal HD 2 750 Gig Internal HD an external 160 gig an external 500 Gig an external 1 Tb an External 250 gig portablee and an e-sata 1 TB external plus 5 flash drives of various sizes

Reply #37 from Stardock Forums Top

 

Quoting Moosetek13, reply 28
SSD's are nice, if you have the cash. They'll probably be standard equipment 10 years from now.
End of Moosetek13's quote

i don't even think it will take 2 years for them to become standart.

in 10 years we will proberbly be using the next thing, maybe even quantum hard drives (harddrives with the binary closeness of the basic atom, where 0 and 1 depends on the way the electron is turning)