OCZ preps SATA and SATAII solid state drives

I dont agree with most of that big post above, esp part about seeks.

You can talk all day about BS but actually running the HDD's will soon let you feel the difference, you dont even need to time it if your sitting twiddling fingers on Windows loading or games loading.


I would take the Lower SEEKS over the bigger HDD's as they all top out about the same 75+MB as a Raptor (avg sustained).

And a HDD is still the Bottleneck of any modern PC.
 
Having seen an SSD being used as the media source for WinXP and Vista, the bottom line is that they are faster.

They are a relatively new technology in disk form and in terms of sustained reads are not far behind their hard disk variants. The writes are still not quite as good but they are certainly getting there.

The lack of seek time overhead is the most dramatic improvement in disk performance since the exponential increase in cache size, starting with 512k -> 2MB.imho of course.

Give it 5 years and high capacity hard disks will only be used for large scale storage. The most common configuration will be a 256gb SSD and perhaps a large mechanical drive for data backup.
 
CossackNoodle said:
might be a dumb idea to even try but would one of these fit in a ps3 and work?
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i've heard that someone else was wanting to do that too, whats the point? i mean i know things could be booted quicker but like its not a pc where you read and write a lot to it with games/programs/videos and everything else.
 
ColdFusion said:
Having seen an SSD being used as the media source for WinXP and Vista, the bottom line is that they are faster.

They are a relatively new technology in disk form and in terms of sustained reads are not far behind their hard disk variants. The writes are still not quite as good but they are certainly getting there.

The lack of seek time overhead is the most dramatic improvement in disk performance since the exponential increase in cache size, starting with 512k -> 2MB.imho of course.

Give it 5 years and high capacity hard disks will only be used for large scale storage. The most common configuration will be a 256gb SSD and perhaps a large mechanical drive for data backup.
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This SATA 300 model does 120MB R and 100MB W, no other HDD does that.
 
ok I was thinking of cloning my Seagate 7200.10 Vista disk to a faster hdd but now I've seen these drives I'm going to wait several months and go SSD clonage, uber fast Vista response and booting = :O
 
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