Bought my first SSD Drive

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by pclover, Apr 1, 2010.

  1. pclover

    pclover MajorGeek

    I bought my first SSD drive. I cant wait make it come faster :-D

    I got a Intel X25-V
     
    pclover, Apr 1, 2010
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  2. LI_Geek_95

    LI_Geek_95 Post-and-Run Geek

    Nice =D
     
    LI_Geek_95, Apr 1, 2010
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  3. Spad

    Spad MajorGeek

    Cool - they are really coming down in price! I got my eye on a 120gb . . . but it's still way, way to expensive to justify buying yet . . . :(



    I could make so many quips about this comment . . . all of them wrong on a host of levels.
     
    Spad, Apr 2, 2010
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  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Cool, been playing with SSDs for the last year have 2 of them Raid0 at present, need to get some 2nd generation controller ones though, some good tips on speeding tem up out their, but Windows 7 is geared up to SSDs natively, whereas the others are not, need alot of Windows built in apps and a few tweaks to get the best out of them.
     
    DavidGP, Apr 2, 2010
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  5. Nedlamar

    Nedlamar MajorGeek

    How much faster are they? roughly.

    More reliable as well I take it since no moving parts.
     
    Nedlamar, Apr 2, 2010
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  6. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi Ned

    This is a quick test I did after some tweaking on Windows 7 beta, not tested lately as need to rebuild the PC that has the SSDs in at present or more so move them to my main PC with an i7 CPU and 6GB DDR3

    but the transfer speeds pass my current 2xWD Raptors in Raid0, mostly in read which is what SSDs do very well, mine are 1st generation so not as good as the new 2nd gen controllers which come with TRIM built in, that really does help.

    http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/881/aftertweaking.jpg
    Newer ones will be quicker than mine as these are over a year old and may actually end up as data storage and I will get newer SSDs with TRIM function.
     
    DavidGP, Apr 2, 2010
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  7. Fred_G

    Fred_G Heat packin' geek

    Nice, been keeping an eye on the prices, want to get one in the future.
     
    Fred_G, Apr 2, 2010
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  8. Nedlamar

    Nedlamar MajorGeek

    @Halo... wow, thats pretty speedy, at slowest, 4 times faster than my laptop I just tested.

    I want one :(
     
    Nedlamar, Apr 3, 2010
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  9. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    @Ned

    the new generation like the Crucial RealSSD-C300 SATA-III 6Gbps SSD are lighteningly fast but expensive still, I'm waiting a while as prices are dropping all the time on these, just noticed they are $100 less than they where a few weeks ago.

    An SSD would go really well in a laptop, quietness as well as speed, need Windows 7 to take advantage of them fully, as its geared up for SSD, I just need to rebuild that PC that they are sitting in now, or as I mentioned move them to this core i7 PC.
     
    DavidGP, Apr 3, 2010
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  10. Nedlamar

    Nedlamar MajorGeek

    Oh I wouldn't put it in this laptop lol, I just ran the test on here because the missus is on the desktop lol

    And I looked at the prices, little hefty at the moment but I was thinking in a few months I may be able to get a 160gb drive for use soley in gaming for around $100-150
    I was looking at the 15k rpm raptor drives but it would seem ssd are faster still.
     
    Nedlamar, Apr 3, 2010
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  11. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Couple of 15k raptors in raid0 would give a single SSD a run for its money, just remember when looking for an SSD make sure it has the TRIM fuctionality, mine dont but I did early adopt without thinking, but as you see the tests show how old SSDs work and the newer ones will be much better, TRIM keeps the drive fresh and stops the data blocks becoming junked up.
     
    DavidGP, Apr 3, 2010
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  12. Mimsy

    Mimsy Superior Imperial Queen of the MG Games Forum

    As soon as my employer starts selling SSDs,I'm getting one. I've seen them run in the test lab... it's like going from dial-up to T1 on a hard drive!
     
    Mimsy, Apr 3, 2010
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  13. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Yes good analogy mims
     
    DavidGP, Apr 3, 2010
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  14. pclover

    pclover MajorGeek

    Prepared my pc adding another SATA cable and it took 20 minutes as I had to remove my video card.

    bad motherboard sata placements lol
     
    pclover, Apr 3, 2010
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  15. pclover

    pclover MajorGeek

    I got it installed and it's beyond awesome

    Speeds work as advertised 175 MB/sec read and 42 MB/sec write for me
     
    pclover, Apr 6, 2010
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  16. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Just curious to what Windows version you using? will likely add posts to your other thread in the tech areas on defrag and tweaking though over general chat here, just need to know OS?
     
    DavidGP, Apr 6, 2010
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  17. Nedlamar

    Nedlamar MajorGeek

    Holy *insert word of choice*!

    I want one :(

    I'll give you $50 CASH for it :-D
     
    Nedlamar, Apr 6, 2010
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  18. pclover

    pclover MajorGeek

    Win 7 64-bit
     
    pclover, Apr 6, 2010
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  19. Mimsy

    Mimsy Superior Imperial Queen of the MG Games Forum

    I'm getting one! I'm getting one!!! :celebrate

    So I mentioned my company is going to start selling SSDs, right? Well, our team supervisor has listened for months to us bit-, ahem, expressing frustration that whenever they release a new product it never occurs to anyone to tell Tech Support, or to provide us with any other info than a spec sheet, but still, we're supposed to do in-depth tech support on the things. It annoys us. This morning, we got called into a meeting with the supervisor and his boss, and they explained that since they understood where our frustration was coming from, they had requested and been granted the right to give us one SSD each, for "testing". They will become our property and we can do whatever we want with them. :hyper:hyper:hyper

    Now, I just need to get that stupid computer functional again... but that's a whole other story. :)
     
    Mimsy, Apr 6, 2010
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  20. pclover

    pclover MajorGeek

    I want another one :-D

    How many GB one you going to get?
     
    pclover, Apr 6, 2010
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  21. Mimsy

    Mimsy Superior Imperial Queen of the MG Games Forum

    The boss' boss says we'll get 128GB drives. :)

    Oooh, that's a great idea! I should buy a second one and RAID them! :hyper
     
    Mimsy, Apr 6, 2010
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  22. pclover

    pclover MajorGeek

    pclover, Apr 6, 2010
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