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gotta rave about my new ssd. For anyone who's um'ing and ar'ing about
whether to go for an ssd I would say go for it. I've just fitted a new Intel X-25 160Gb drive, bit pricey but the speed increase is noticeable. My win7 pc boots up and shuts down in less than half the time of a normal sata drive and programs load really quick. Everything is faster with an ssd resulting a whole new computing experience. |
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"tg" wrote in message ... gotta rave about my new ssd. For anyone who's um'ing and ar'ing about whether to go for an ssd I would say go for it. I've just fitted a new Intel X-25 160Gb drive, bit pricey but the speed increase is noticeable. My win7 pc boots up and shuts down in less than half the time of a normal sata drive and programs load really quick. Everything is faster with an ssd resulting a whole new computing experience. Is there a limit for the number of read write operations for your solid state drive? .. That is/was the case for USB pen drives, which I believe is the same technology. |
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On 11/25/2010 10:05 AM, 123Jim wrote:
wrote in message ... gotta rave about my new ssd. For anyone who's um'ing and ar'ing about whether to go for an ssd I would say go for it. I've just fitted a new Intel X-25 160Gb drive, bit pricey but the speed increase is noticeable. My win7 pc boots up and shuts down in less than half the time of a normal sata drive and programs load really quick. Everything is faster with an ssd resulting a whole new computing experience. Is there a limit for the number of read write operations for your solid state drive? .. That is/was the case for USB pen drives, which I believe is the same technology. There is a theoretical limit but it is _very_ high. The manufacturer sets aside a section of the NAND flash memory as spare capacity (different manufacturers and different controllers and different firmware set the amount) and the controller keeps track of main memory blocks which seems to be going bad and swaps them out in the background. The controller also 'levels' the read/write usage of the blocks so that all areas get more-or-less the same wear. Controllers and memory seem to be refined enough now that makers no longer warn against putting the OS swap file on an SSD |
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tg wrote:
gotta rave about my new ssd. For anyone who's um'ing and ar'ing about whether to go for an ssd I would say go for it. I've just fitted a new Intel X-25 160Gb drive, bit pricey but the speed increase is noticeable. My win7 pc boots up and shuts down in less than half the time of a normal sata drive You can do a lot better than that by hibernating instead of shutting down or suspend to ram in spades. For nothing. and programs load really quick. They load even quicker if you dont stop them when you stop using them. Everything is faster with an ssd resulting a whole new computing experience. Which can get much more cheaply in other ways. |
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Everything is faster with an ssd resulting a whole new computing experience. Which can get much more cheaply in other ways. like what? a faster processor? I got a quad core amd phenom II, not sure I can currently get much faster than that. like lots of ram? already got 8Gb no this ssd made a real difference - I can't think of any other mod that could have created the same effect. Unless you know of one... |
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On 11/25/2010 7:40 AM, tg wrote:
gotta rave about my new ssd. For anyone who's um'ing and ar'ing about whether to go for an ssd I would say go for it. I've just fitted a new Intel X-25 160Gb drive, bit pricey but the speed increase is noticeable. My win7 pc boots up and shuts down in less than half the time of a normal sata drive and programs load really quick. Everything is faster with an ssd resulting a whole new computing experience. I tried one. I didn't think it was worth the price. Maybe in a few more years I'll try again. Very little of what I do is constrained by disk drives, anyway. Most things here are stored on a RAID array that will handle multiple video streams without breaking a sweat, and most of the system stays up for months at a time. |
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tg wrote:
Everything is faster with an ssd resulting a whole new computing experience. Which can get much more cheaply in other ways. like what? I already told you in the quoting you carefully deleted, stupid. a faster processor? I got a quad core amd phenom II, not sure I can currently get much faster than that. like lots of ram? already got 8Gb no this ssd made a real difference - I can't think of any other mod that could have created the same effect. Unless you know of one... I already told you about two. You just deleted them from the quoting. |
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I tried one. I didn't think it was worth the price. Maybe in a few more years I'll try again. Very little of what I do is constrained by disk drives, anyway. Most things here are stored on a RAID array that will handle multiple video streams without breaking a sweat, and most of the system stays up for months at a time. it's true some ssd's aren't worth the money, you have to get the right one(s). I think there are only two ssd's on the market at the mo that are actually worth buying, the rest aren't. The intel x-25 is one those two and I would recommend it to anyone. The reason I got the intel x-25 is because I exchanged emails with two people that raved about it. ssd's are the future without any doubt. |
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tg wrote:
I tried one. I didn't think it was worth the price. Maybe in a few more years I'll try again. Very little of what I do is constrained by disk drives, anyway. Most things here are stored on a RAID array that will handle multiple video streams without breaking a sweat, and most of the system stays up for months at a time. it's true some ssd's aren't worth the money, you have to get the right one(s). I think there are only two ssd's on the market at the mo that are actually worth buying, the rest aren't. The intel x-25 is one those two and I would recommend it to anyone. The reason I got the intel x-25 is because I exchanged emails with two people that raved about it. ssd's are the future without any doubt. Fantasy. |
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On Nov 27, 2:21*am, "Rod Speed" wrote:
tg wrote: I tried one. *I didn't think it was worth the price. *Maybe in a few more years I'll try again. Very little of what I do is constrained by disk drives, anyway. *Most things here are stored on a RAID array that will handle multiple video streams without breaking a sweat, and most of the system stays up for months at a time. it's true some ssd's aren't worth the money, you have to get the right one(s). I think there are only two ssd's on the market at the mo that are actually worth buying, the rest aren't. The intel x-25 is one those two and I would recommend it to anyone. The reason I got the intel x-25 is because I exchanged emails with two people that raved about it. ssd's are the future without any doubt. Fantasy.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hmm this is interesting....May I ask what makes ssd an object of fantasy? or you are implying something else? |
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