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dgates80

Land of the lost
Got my new computer build completed. I bought a OCz solid state 60gb drive for the OS / system drive... WOW. The drive is SATA II, works like a champ. System performance is off the hook. The drive was $130, expensive for 60gb, but now that I am using it the performance boost is worth it.

I also have a 1.5TB data drive, disk space effectivly unlimited -- gotta love the way disk space has gone.

IMHO, best bang for the buck to improve system performance is, after having eough RAM, is get a SSD! Disk I/O is the single biggest perf bottleneck in most systems, and directly affects the end total use of the computer experience. And, the SSD cost has finally dropped to a semi-reasonable price point....

I am getting 200 MB/Sec disk I/O, seek time is .1ms -- not 10ms like many rotating media hard drives. Write performance is lower, 120mb/sec, but still better than many hard drives.

60GB *seems* kinda small, but I have Win7 Untimate, Office 2010, a bunch of apps, and still have 36GB free on C:

The first attachment is the SSD, the 2nd is the 1.5TB Seagate Barracusa 7200 RPM SATA drive.
 

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Floyd2004

Floyd2004

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No doubt they are blistering fast but im waiting for them to drop in price. When I can get 1TB for under 80 bucks it makes me deal with the lower speeds and have TONS more room.
My Raptor is fast enough for right now, its just a loud little bugger.
 
Mongo53

Mongo53

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I'm waiting for a viable Composite Drive, both a SSD and standard Hardrive in one package, with a driver/alogrithm that places the files necessary on the SDD for best performance and uses it as a cache, all seemlessly appearing as one drive. I know there are things out there now, but NOT sure they are ready for prime time yet.
 
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dgates80

Land of the lost
Mongo53 said:
I'm waiting for a viable Composite Drive, both a SSD and standard Hardrive in one package, with a driver/alogrithm that places the files necessary on the SDD for best performance and uses it as a cache, all seemlessly appearing as one drive. I know there are things out there now, but NOT sure they are ready for prime time yet.
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I think that will be a couple of years in coming. Get the performance boost now!

As for 1TB SSD's, you *can* get them --- for about $4k.

The idea of using them as a boot drive and app drive is quite viable right *now* though, for the appx. $150 they cost. 60GB *seems* small, but it is working out pretty well for me!
 
Floyd2004

Floyd2004

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Depends on what you use you PC for. Id fill up 60gig in no time.
Heck the 2TB that I have now im nearing its limits and I need more space!
 
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donmagicyourmom

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Mongo53 said:
I'm waiting for a viable Composite Drive, both a SSD and standard Hardrive in one package, with a driver/alogrithm that places the files necessary on the SDD for best performance and uses it as a cache, all seemlessly appearing as one drive. I know there are things out there now, but NOT sure they are ready for prime time yet.
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Get the Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST95005620AS-Bare Drive


It has a 4gb SSD and the rest traditional platter type drive. I installed it in my macbook pro and after installing and doing a time capsule load from my old settings, after 5 reboots, it took 12 seconds off of my boot time. Now itunes loads in less than 2 seconds. Once you have everything installed, launch the apps you use most often (itunes, entourage, firefox) and then reboot. Do this 4 or 5 times and it will continue getting faster. iTunes was a huge improvment since i have over 70gb of music in my library. I got the drive for $138 but amazon went up in price to $170.

Amazon.com: Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch…
 
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EmptyTimCup

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Floyd2004 said:
Depends on what you use you PC for. Id fill up 60gig in no time.
Heck the 2TB that I have now im nearing its limits and I need more space!
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:buddies:

my 1.5 data drive is getting very full

as is my 500 gb boot drive - I should have installed Steam on the data drive .... my account has over 100 Gb of games in it now
 
Mongo53

Mongo53

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donmagicyourmom said:
Get the Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST95005620AS-Bare Drive... ...It has a 4gb SSD and the rest traditional platter type drive.
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That is the Hyrbrid Drive I was thinking of, I don't think it performs as well as using seperate SDD and HDD, but it is cheaper, easier and faster than just a HDD by itself.

I'm hoping more for a Hybrid that is a 60gb SDD and 1TB HDD, that produces the speed of doing the same seperatly. Haven't seen anything like that yet.
 
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Kineticist

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SSDs are sweet. Saw an article the other day about an 80g one the size of your thumbnail - small enough that they could just solder it to your motherboard to use just for your OS.
 
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Lamini

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currently typing on a Sager NP9280 laptop which is an I7 960 (desktop CPU on a laptop form factor). Custom ordered with a pair of Intel x25's SSDs in raid0 configuration for the operating system drive and a 7200rpm 1Tb storage drive, it makes my other quad core desktop running on a pair of 10,000rpm raptors slow (over 2 yrs old). Been playing with SSDs for over a year now and theyre definitely worth it if its for productivity. Also a great replacement to your mechanical hard drive for gamers. Get at least a pair and raid them (not that a single SSD is not plenty fast), make sure everything important is stored on a separate hard drive, just in case.

One of the first things you'll notice is how a 10mb photoshop file opens up in 15-20seconds on your quad core with 10,000rpm raided drives, opens up in the same second you open it on a pair of raid0 SSDs. Sounds expensive ($200 per 80Gb Intel X25 SSD), but when you do this for a living... it pays itself off in a week or two
 
Jigglepuff

Jigglepuff

Chin Jiggla!
Lamini said:
currently typing on a Sager NP9280 laptop which is an I7 960 (desktop CPU on a laptop form factor). Custom ordered with a pair of Intel x25's SSDs in raid0 configuration for the operating system drive and a 7200rpm 1Tb storage drive, it makes my other quad core desktop running on a pair of 10,000rpm raptors slow (over 2 yrs old). Been playing with SSDs for over a year now and theyre definitely worth it if its for productivity. Also a great replacement to your mechanical hard drive for gamers. Get at least a pair and raid them (not that a single SSD is not plenty fast), make sure everything important is stored on a separate hard drive, just in case.

One of the first things you'll notice is how a 10mb photoshop file opens up in 15-20seconds on your quad core with 10,000rpm raided drives, opens up in the same second you open it on a pair of raid0 SSDs. Sounds expensive ($200 per 80Gb Intel X25 SSD), but when you do this for a living... it pays itself off in a week or two
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:drool:
 
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