Solid state drives

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:23 am

Me wants - pity they are far from cheap
But the speed difference is amazing and no more noise and hard drive crashes
One of these as a system drive, and 2x1TB Regular HD in raid mirrored format for data, along with an i7 and 6 gigs of DDR3 in tri-channel mode and you have a very snappy system

BTW there is a new OCZ Vertex SSD coming out soon, that combines the speed of the Intel offering, gets rid of the stutters and pauses, but at a much cheaper price
200mb/s read, 160mb/s write!

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/in ... i=3403&p=1

WytRaven · Post by **WytRaven** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:07 pm

Have they sorted out the random write issue of SSDs yet?

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:28 pm

I'm just gonna be waiting until theyre reasonably priced for their story capacity.

Which wont be before another year or so. It's exciting to see the progress theyre making but the price just turns me off.

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:32 pm

WytRaven wrote:Have they sorted out the random write issue of SSDs yet?

yeah, read the review for full details

Some of the older SSD drives have it, but the Intel and the newer and faster ones coming out at the beginning of next year have no issues

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:33 pm

list of the new SSD coming out soon

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/SSD-OC ... ,6683.html

Sukrim · Post by **Sukrim** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:53 pm

Btw. @ ~4â‚¬ per GB I'm surely gonna invest a bit into those - the difference is much more noticable than with e.g. a CPU upgrade (not with rendering of course

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I personally think under 5â‚¬/GB it's worth to invest in SSDs but this is a personal decision and I understand others that see HDDs that cost like 20 Cent/GB and just don't want to pay that much.

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 11:56 pm

As usual I'll wait your feedback and those of many users before trying that one, and then the technology will be mature

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:11 am

The thing I like about SSD as system drive - no more need for backups anymore

an SSD will never crash, and when it's about to go bad, you will get ample warning. And when it goes bad, you can still read from it, just not write

HD it's the last thing on computer that is still mechanical, apart from fans. Eventually even fans won't exist anymore one day

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:00 pm

that last thing will be really hard. That implies, that a computer gets cooled enough by ONLY using passive cooling....

Or things get such energy-efficient, that they don't need any cooling anymore xD (or even better, that they use their own temperature to work without electricity O.o probably against the first sentence of thermodynamics though....

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:55 pm

well a form of heat pipe into large heatsinks, or some type of cyro cooling