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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Mount Gambier - South Aus
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As per topic, Solid State Drive vs Hard Disk Drive...
How many people here run SSD's in their machines and what are you're views over a HDD's?... I've had one in my desktop now for a couple of months (just a cheap 30gb Kingston one with 2x 1tb mechanical storage drives).. not really noticing the difference... Since my laptop killed a hdd dunno if I should just put my SSD in from my desktop and use a mechanic drive again.. choices choices ![]() |
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It's not an FG MKI.......
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Northern Territory
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Only reason I didn't even contemplate a SSD was the ridiculous price for such small storage space.
I hope they've come down alot since i looked 3 years ago.
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I spent alot of money on computers never really considerd a SSD, they arn't really all that much faster for what its worth buy a bigger HDD.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Mount Gambier - South Aus
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My current SSD was $75 for 30gb :o... then I got a WD black 1tb for $100 lol!
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Haven, Adelaide
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suppose running a SSD would be good to use to store program files and windows on. so your computer and programs boot up really quick.
i looked at it when i built my computer but i didnt see the point. hopefully when i upgrade or build a new pc in about a year the price will come down for a decent amount of space.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: 32°09′40″S 116°01′12″E WA
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Check this out
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Nikon
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Wollongong
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Best to get a SSD of about 40gb and use this only for your OS and separate HDD as backup(Ghosting programs works well).With a lifespan of 2,000,000 hrs @ 24/7 its 200+yrs of life so this will be on my shopping list
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Salamander Bay
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the ideal compromise is the seagate hybrid drive which has a small SSD incorporated in a standard drive for frequently used files but the system sees it all as 1 drive http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/pro...ops/laptop-hdd
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2010
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After switching to SSD's a few months back i will never go back to using a platter drive.
If your going buy one stick to OCZ they make the best drives on the market. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2006
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SSD is going to take over and leave HDD's obsolete within a couple of years. When they start producing them in the same qwuantites as the HDD's at present they will be cheaper to manufacture as well as faster and more reliable.
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another option for speed on a desktop is using 1500 RPM sas drives in a raid 0 or 1 array raid 0 is faster but less reliable but raid 1 gives you speed gains with the trade off being loss of capacity. this setup would rival current SSD technology with greater reliability for constant writes
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: The 'butt
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The newest SSD SATA 3 drives are incredibly quick, guy from work has just built a gaming machine with 2 150gb SSD drives in raid 0 for his OS and games, to say the thing flies is an understatement.. If your interested in SSD I'd check out http://www.ssdfreaks.com/ Good info there..
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Corsair and OCZ have drives with the new Sanforce 2 controller and are highly regarded. These are their 3rd gen drives Corsair "Performance 3" or OCZ "Vertex 3". The Vertex 2 drives had issues. Another highly regarded drive is the Crucial M4. Apparently they are best at random reads and writes - which would have real world benefits. The Sanforce 2 drives have the best peak speeds. Crucial have been a supplier of quality memory for years. They haven't been in the Australian retail market much - in the past people bought from the USA and had it shipped over.
SSDs are still a premium/performance item - they do have a high cost, that and platter drives are quite cheap now. Most enthusiasts mix an SSD as a boot drive with a platter drive or drives to do storage. If you are buying a $1000 computer, then an SSD takes up a fair chunk of that price. If you are spending $2000 or more, then at that price an SSD is probably going to be part of it. As for the size to get - I wouldn't get less than 64GB if you are running Win7. My Win7 OS install plus programs is currently using 45GB. I have allocated 75GB to the C: partition. Using WinXP, I would need closer to half that. All games are installed on another partition. My upcoming build will have an SSD, most likely a 120GB
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I thought the main benefit of SSD was stability over speed?
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The read speed of an SSD is fantastic now...especially OCZ brands.
I have converted all my customers to SSD drives for their mail servers. In laptops they are absolutely bullet proof....you can't break them. In a Toshiba laptop we can boot windows XP in less than 6 seconds from power up, once past the bios checking. The battery life of a laptop is also greatly increased in our case. Much less heat, less noise in a DVD recorder application, the list goes on and on. Overall a fantastic way to go...as long as it's a SATA drive, use it in the event of a drive failure as a great replacement drive. |
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Virtuous Bogan (TM)
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6 secs...damn
My Toshiba laptop HDD failed and I got it replaced under warranty...I probably should of extra for SDD.
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Thailand Specials
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Centrefold Lounge
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I'm doing a build for a friend and I've been asking around, I'm looking at a 120GB SSD as the OS and applications drive, 1TB drive for data, etc.
For randomly accessing files anywhere on the drive, they're king of the hill. |
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Fossil fuel consumer
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my desktop has an OCZ Vertex2 120GB 3.5" SSD, connects straight up to a normal hdd bay being 3.5".. Win 7 used to take 1 min 15 seconds to load from the loading screen, now it takes 17 seconds. Loading files is a bit quicker, depending on the program and how efficiently it's written. Installing programs is far quicker. It's used as a primary drive (boot, and programs) and i have optical media for storage.. They're far more reliable these days and i paid about $245 for the drive which is bloody good for a quality SSD.
I also put a 2.5" version of the same 120GB OCZ SSD in my netbook, 1 day after i bought it (warranty void? :P) and it made a massive difference. Win 7 starter now boots in 15 seconds, programs load and install very quickly and it turned a sluggish netbook into something nearly as quick as my i5 desktop. It made a huge difference to battery life as well having no moving parts. See below for speeds, the first is the 3.5" SSD in the desktop, the second is the 2.5" SSD in the netbook. Notice the netbook suffers lower write speeds, nothing to do with the drive, it's a limitation of netbook architecture. For those of you who have used optical drives for a long time, you can appreciate the speed. I will never go back to optical media if possible. ![]() ![]() |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I'll be going at least 1 SSD in my next box. For OS and any I/O intensive games.. relegate swap to one of a couple of 2TB drives I have.
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Force Fed Fords
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Victoria
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I run a 64g SSD drive and just have running system on it, then have 2t HDD, works a charm, nice and quick, especially to boot up
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: On the Dark Side of The Moon
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Just built a new machine for the misses. Dropped a 60GB SSD (OCZ) in it.
Boot up is just so quick its hard to explain. Machine also has a 500GB WD Black for apps and games plus a 500GB green for videos and pictures etc. Using SSD's are fine, as long as you can adjust your habbits and are willing to install non-critical programs on another drive. There are a few programs/services/tools that should be turned off - while not difficult to do, having some knowledge is not a bad idea. http://thessdreview.com/category/ssd-guides/
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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PC Case Gear have 128gb OZC Vertex 2's for $199 atm.
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Good price and fantastic drive as well. Look at the kingston units, some have a sata as well as micro usb on the drive....very handy feature.. |
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Fossil fuel consumer
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120GB is the size.. good price
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Dawn
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Those who aren't interested in a SSD, this may suit?
http://apcmag.com/giving-ssd-a-run-f...-hd-review.htm |
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