Anyone operating SSD?

[killerx]

guy us ram drive buy more ram 16G and use as storage drive 9000mbs speed and run bf2 fron ram hell its fast asus made the software se on youtube mate

 

[A1Kaid]

Bigger the capacity of SSD, faster it is.
Safriz, yes in the past SSDs were not that stable but now they are very good.
Main reason i chose SSD was its ruggedness and robustness.

Seagate has also developed a hybrid drive which has conventional moving platters but also contains SSD. According to benchmarks its faster than normal HDDs.



Your Mobo has Sata III interface? otherwise stick to 320 series unless you want to future proof your investment, if you are upgrading in the near future.

Your right 320 2.5 Sata is more suitable. Though it's really expensive for the 200+GB of memory on 320 SSD versions. For the 600 GB one it's over a thousand. I don't think the cost is justified. So it's definitively better to wait now. Besides I'm in no hurry because my computer is doing excellent.

 

[canadian icehole]

SSD FTW! No doubts that it'll be the future storage device. Currently the cost of having one for your desktop is still too high. However, I believe it's essential if you're a laptop owner. I used to work in an IT shop supporting laptop users and you would not believe the number of times I had to RMA those 2.5" HDDs. Also, since the power requirements for SSD's are lower your laptop battery time is greatly extended.

As someone already mentioned, who you buy from is important. OCZ is crap. I'm using an Intel for my laptop running Win 7 Pro for 1.5 years with ZERO problems.

 

[A1Kaid]

Here's the Seagate Momentus XT SSD-HDD hybrid I think Echelon was referring to. I wasn't aware there were hybrid storage devices.

 

[Safriz]

guy us ram drive buy more ram 16G and use as storage drive 9000mbs speed and run bf2 fron ram hell its fast asus made the software se on youtube mate

and how do you do that?

 

[A1Kaid]

SSD FTW! No doubts that it'll be the future storage device. Currently the cost of having one for your desktop is still too high. However, I believe it's essential if you're a laptop owner. I used to work in an IT shop supporting laptop users and you would not believe the number of times I had to RMA those 2.5" HDDs. Also, since the power requirements for SSD's are lower your laptop battery time is greatly extended.

As someone already mentioned, who you buy from is important. OCZ is crap. I'm using an Intel for my laptop running Win 7 Pro for 1.5 years with ZERO problems.

What do you think of this particular SSD, it says its made in the US, but it's from a lesser known brand.

OWC Mercury Electra 3G Solid State Drive (SSD) Solutions - High Performance, Reliability, and Endurance

They have a comparison video as well

SSD Shootout - SSD vs HDD in a 2008 MacBook Pro - YouTube

You can just see the power and difference.

 

[canadian icehole]

What do you think of this particular SSD, it says its made in the US, but it's from a lesser known brand.
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You can just see the power and difference.

Of course there's a difference. They were comparing an SSD with a typical HDD. What they should have done as well was to compare their product with another SSD vendor. There were too many mistakes made in the video for it to be a reliable review. I prefer and trust independent reviews than from the vendor who's trying to sell you their product. No vendor is going to give their own products a negative review.

I know people finances will determine what they can buy. However, I prefer to spend a little more on trusted vendors especially on critical parts such as mainboards or monitors. I couldn't care less about minor items such as cables, optical drives, cooling fans, etc... The only time that I would go for an unknown vendor is if there were many favorable independent reviews. As for OWC, never heard of it. Where I'm at, I can readily get SSD's from Intel, Patriot, OCZ, Kingston, Crucial, Mushkin, and Corsair from a brick and mortar store.

 

[Crypto]

Your right 320 2.5 Sata is more suitable. Though it's really expensive for the 200+GB of memory on 320 SSD versions. For the 600 GB one it's over a thousand. I don't think the cost is justified. So it's definitively better to wait now. Besides I'm in no hurry because my computer is doing excellent.

What sort of computer have you got? just curious
it might be a good idea to get a smaller SSD for OS/Apps and a conventional one for other needs. On my T420 i have a 1TB HDD in the caddy (swapped with Optical drive) and internally the primary one (OS/apps) is a SSD.

By doing this i am using two SATA channels for two drives and simultaneous read/read form both drives is very fast.

 

[A1Kaid]

I'll PM you the specs...

Of course there's a difference. They were comparing an SSD with a typical HDD. What they should have done as well was to compare their product with another SSD vendor. There were too many mistakes made in the video for it to be a reliable review. I prefer and trust independent reviews than from the vendor who's trying to sell you their product. No vendor is going to give their own products a negative review.

I know people finances will determine what they can buy. However, I prefer to spend a little more on trusted vendors especially on critical parts such as mainboards or monitors. I couldn't care less about minor items such as cables, optical drives, cooling fans, etc... The only time that I would go for an unknown vendor is if there were many favorable independent reviews. As for OWC, never heard of it. Where I'm at, I can readily get SSD's from Intel, Patriot, OCZ, Kingston, Crucial, Mushkin, and Corsair from a brick and mortar store.

Of course there's a difference. They were comparing an SSD with a typical HDD. What they should have done as well was to compare their product with another SSD vendor.

Yeah, I would like to see it compared to other SSDs from Intel, Seagate, Sandisk, Corsair, etc. That would be the real test of performance.

 

[BATMAN]

To Pakistanis, Turks, Westerners, and Chinese,

Any of you guys operating SSD in your computer? If so what do you think of it? Also which SSD brand are you operating and with what machine?

SSD seems to be the DSD of the future.

I'm using it in laptop, but why do you put your question in strange way?

 

[A1Kaid]

I'm using it in laptop, but why do you put your question in strange way?

What's strange about it? I was just curious to see if some of you guys were using SSD and what your thoughts about it were, since in the future I will install SSD in my own system.

 

[gambit]

SSD prices may drop following impending price war | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

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In September of last year, slowdowns in the growth of the PC market led to a surplus of OEM RAM supplies and resulted in massive drops in prices for RAM in the following months. This made upgrades to higher-density RAM chips much more feasible for many people, allowing them to do more with their Macs without experiencing slowdowns and other problems that happen when systems run low on memory.
Even though RAM upgrades being cheaper has allowed many to increase the performance of their systems, another major performance bottleneck of modern computers besides the RAM is the hard drive. For instance, when compared using the same benchmarks for throughput during application loading, SSDs perform on average over 10 times faster than conventional HDD devices (Tests performed by Tom's Hardware using PCMark 7).
While the use of SSD devices will greatly improve the performance of your system (even an older one), they unfortunately have been quite expensive options, especially when you need ample data storage. For instance, a 250GB SSD will cost roughly $280 on average, whereas a 250GB conventional HDD will cost about $80. The price difference only continues to increase as the drive capacities get larger.
To overcome the expense of SSD devices and maximize storage while benefiting from the speed of SSDs, you can install a dual-drive setup on your computer, using a small SSD as your boot drive and the one that holds your account and applications files, but then store your application libraries and data on a larger conventional drive. In Mac Pro systems or iMac systems this can easily be done, even if you need to use an external drive for your data; however, for laptops you might benefit from replacing your optical drive and using its connection for a second hard drive. I discuss one option for such a setup here.
While dual-drive setups such as this are beneficial, they do require special considerations, such as remembering to organize your data on one drive and not the other, and making some heavy modifications to the system hardware for some laptops.
Luckily, recent news suggests the need for such dual-drive setups might soon lessen. Digitimes is reporting that large SSD firms such as Kingston, OCZ, Crucial, and Intel are attempting to narrow the market and squeeze out the competition. While for now the price drops have for some SSD hardware brought the price of the SATA3 versions closer to the SATA2 versions, the price drops are expected continue as NAND flash chips become cheaper and more abundant.
The competition and NAND chip supply increases should continue to spur reduced prices and make single-drive SSD solutions more feasible for people. Digitimes claims that this effort by these companies is not only to help them command the market, but also improve it by removing retailers who use inferior SSD technology.
As a result of this impending price war, if you are planning on upgrading your system with an SSD, you might consider waiting for a few months to watch the market and see how much prices fall.

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