SSD bandwagon

[Tx Redneck]

I finally jumped on w/a 128Gig Vertex 4 for $99.

Anyone else have one? What's your experience been like?

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

[Rafa]

Have a 64gig and love it. Have a spare 64g laying on my shelf. Haven't decided what I want to do with it. It's a Corsair, same one I'm using on PC in room.

[hunt4m3x]

I have 2 240gb kingstons, love them. Started with a 60g intel to 120 to 160 then the 240gb kingstons.

use this tool. http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4926-ssd-tweaker.html

[abecx]

My raid 5 of 4 hard drives is just as fast as my intel on sequential read speed, writes however....

I noticed a HUGE performance increase on my laptop with an SSD, and huge increase in seek time performance on my desktop, although I dont really need it that often.

[roliath]

I love my new sandisk extreme's. those bitches are FAST.

capped out the controller on my laptop with one drive (600+ mb reads/writes).

I have a ton of ssd's, too many. I need to upgrade my main rig to sata3 so I can use my v4's on them without the need for a raid card.

[CexMashean]

2 60gb in my desktop, a 120gb in my laptop. Love them.

[ceyko]

Not sure I'd call it a bandwagon. They are bad ass overall (as mentioned especially replacing crappy laptop HDDs) and coming down in price.

[abecx]

Not sure I'd call it a bandwagon. They are bad ass overall (as mentioned especially replacing crappy laptop HDDs) and coming down in price.

I think an SSD is the biggest performance boost for ANY laptop, it makes it work nearly as smooth as a desktop.

[Ratt]

I've been really interested in the hybrid drives, specifically the Momentus XT drives. Example:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148940

8 gigs of solid state, the rest on traditional hard drive storage medium. Tests with our storage division have come back extremely positive.

[ceyko]

I think an SSD is the biggest performance boost for ANY laptop, it makes it work nearly as smooth as a desktop.

Yeah on some Macbook Pros (not arguing Mac vs PC/Other here) we tested one with SSD and one with stock drive. SSD = 4 boots/shutdowns in the time of one boot with stock drive. Granted, drive intensive activity - but still really nice.

[Tx Redneck]

If your PC has gobs of RAM, check this out.

http://m.techspot.com/news/50461-amds-radeon-branded-ramdisk-software-now-available-for-download.html

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

[roliath]

If your PC has gobs of RAM, check this out.

http://m.techspot.com/news/50461-amds-radeon-branded-ramdisk-software-now-available-for-download.html

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

Thanks for the Link it looks interesting, thankfully I bought my laptop to work today so I'll give this a go.
I'm currently using a paid version of RamDisk by Dataram.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

[Tx Redneck]

Antonio has all the cool stuff.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

[roliath]

Antonio has all the cool stuff.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

Just a nerd with no real bills.



I was looking at this a few days ago, ssd from my server. Despite the data written, it still has a long life ahead of it.

I've since moved this to an e-sata enclosure and use it on the road with my laptop.

[abecx]

I've been really interested in the hybrid drives, specifically the Momentus XT drives. Example:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148940

8 gigs of solid state, the rest on traditional hard drive storage medium. Tests with our storage division have come back extremely positive.

Just buy more computer memory, it does the same thing and is cheaper.