Solid State Drive, Wow!

[ZirconJohn]

Haaa...!

That looks like the inside of my tower... I think we have the same box!

Currently have my tech on a custom build buying spree... I'm going SSD in a few weeks

And I CANNOT WAIT!

[Merc1138]

I never turn my desktop off anyways since I torrent. Ive never had any issue with minute restart times and .5 second delay between tasks.

I think ill stick with regular harddrives that are half the price with 15x the storage space. Im glad you enjoy your SSD, I personally prefer getting more for less.

Depends on how you setup your storage really. In addition to the SSD drives in my desktop, there's also a pair of velociraptors in RAID 0 for random stuff. If I want serious storage space, that's why I have a NAS with 4x1TB HDDs in RAID 5 sitting on a gigabit network used by multiple systems(2 desktops, HTPC, media player, laptops). Having multiple TB of HDD space in one computer(even if left on, I don't want the resources spent on sharing files across the network if I'm trying to do something else) is silly these days unless you really only have 1 desktop and maybe a laptop.

[707electrician]

I would definitely go SSD if they weren't so damn expensive

[Mute]

With standard hard drives so cheap nowadays, I'd go SSD for the OS and maybe a few essential apps and a regular hd or NAS for files and storage. Price have come down a good deal on the SSD, though I'd probably wait about 8 months or so if money is tight. The price keeps coming down on SSDs. Slowly but surely.

[JDay]

You probably should have upgraded that old machine before getting an SSD, you would have got a much bigger performance boost. I also hope you haven't been following any of the guides for "optimizing" Windows 7 for an SSD. Windows 7 detects if you are using and SSD and optimizes automatically.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

In Windows 7, we’ve focused a number of our engineering efforts with SSD operating characteristics in mind. As a result, Windows 7’s default behavior is to operate efficiently on SSDs without requiring any customer intervention. Before delving into how Windows 7’s behavior is automatically tuned to work efficiently on SSDs, a brief overview of SSD operating characteristics is warranted.

Windows 7 Optimizations and Default Behavior Summary

As noted above, all of today’s SSDs have considerable work to do when presented with disk writes and disk flushes. Windows 7 tends to perform well on today’s SSDs, in part, because we made many engineering changes to reduce the frequency of writes and flushes. This benefits traditional HDDs as well, but is particularly helpful on today’s SSDs.

Windows 7 will disable disk defragmentation on SSD system drives. Because SSDs perform extremely well on random read operations, defragmenting files isn’t helpful enough to warrant the added disk writing defragmentation produces. The FAQ section below has some additional details.

Be default, Windows 7 will disable Superfetch, ReadyBoost, as well as boot and application launch prefetching on SSDs with good random read, random write and flush performance. These technologies were all designed to improve performance on traditional HDDs, where random read performance could easily be a major bottleneck. See the FAQ section for more details.

Since SSDs tend to perform at their best when the operating system’s partitions are created with the SSD’s alignment needs in mind, all of the partition-creating tools in Windows 7 place newly created partitions with the appropriate alignment.

[JDay]

Looking forward to getting one in three years.........for a tenth the price.

Expect to see the prices drop quite a bit this summer, especially on the last generation of drives. You can already find 120GB (128GB if you count the reserved) SF-1200 based drives for under $200. I would not be surprised to see them at or under the $1/GB mark by this time next year.

The Intel SSDs we have at work have a failure rate of about 15%. I hope the second generation drives will be better.

That cannot be right, Intel drives have a much lower failure rate, and they're currently on the 3rd generation.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/810-6/taux-pannes-composants.html

Translated from that URL.

For the first time, we also integrate SSDs in this article type. The rates of failure recorded by manufacturer:

- Intel 0.59%
- Corsair 2.17%
- Crucial 2.25%
- Kingston 2.39%
- OCZ 2.93%

Intel stands here with a failure rate of the most flattering. Among the few models sold over 100 copies, displays a rate of no more than 5% VAS.

These have been confirmed through independent tests.

[Nose Nuggets]

yeah, when i found that win7 turned off defrag all by itself, i smiled.

[JDay]

I think ill stick with regular harddrives that are half the price with 15x the storage space. Im glad you enjoy your SSD, I personally prefer getting more for less.

Try one and you'll change your mind. You also do not replace your traditional hard drives with the SSD, you replace your system drive with the SSD and use your HDDs for storage.

[safewaysecurity]

Get a new video card lol

[Nose Nuggets]

Try one and you'll change your mind. You also do not replace your traditional hard drives with the SSD, you replace your system drive with the SSD and use your HDDs for storage.

this.

get 3+ cheapish 1tb/2tb drives, raid em, and a ssd. you will be golden.

[XDRoX]

Get a new video card lol

I don't play games. This PC is strictly used for normal home tasks, surfing the web, email, word, excel, photos, etc...

That video card is actually more than I need.

It is a 60gb SSD I got for $100 with a rebate. I still use standard hard drives for storage.

[whobob]

SSD is well worth it even with an i7.

[hybridatsun350]

Yea, SSD's are cool. I've got one in my Dell Mini 9. They've got their drawbacks, but they're definitely quick!

I used to run that CPU cooler on my Pentium D back in the day. It's a Zalman, right?

yeah, when i found that win7 turned off defrag all by itself, i smiled.

Wow, that's pretty cool!

[JDay]

Wow, that's pretty cool!

Read this link for more information. There is no need to do any SSD tweaks with Windows 7, the people who advocate doing so used an SSD with Vista so they do not know any better. You do not even have to disable the page file, hibernate file or drive indexing.

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

[militia_bob]

That cannot be right, Intel drives have a much lower failure rate, and they're currently on the 3rd generation.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/810-6/taux-pannes-composants.html

Translated from that URL.



These have been confirmed through independent tests.

I should have elaborated. We run them in HP Elitebook 2530p's (ultra portable laptops). Being small and light weight, they run hot. I suspect that the heat from the system is killing the drives prematurely. We've been keeping track of all the warranty returns and for us, it's about a 15% failure rate.