OCZ Core SSD v2 IN STOCK!!!

avatar12m said:
I just ordered a 60gb one, going to put my operating system (vista 64bit) and the games i play allot on it and use a 500gb to store all my music and big files.

a few things i was wondering was.

1. will the drives be ghostable.
2. how do you mount it inside you pc. 2.5-3.5 convertion kit etc.
3. are there any special setting when formatting the drives.
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Can you give some feedback on how this has improved Vista loading times etc I was looking at a one of the new 150g Vraptors and would like a comparison for a OS drive.
 
Clown said:
Are there any settings in Vista default I should turn off to preserve these drives?
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I'd move the event logging, and debugging or disable it. Disable indexing, and maybe move pagefile to another drive. Probably won't need superfetch/prefetch either.
 
How many writes can these things take? I've heard a lot of talk about write count limits on other flash devices, but I don't think I've ever seen a reputable estimate, and don't know how that would apply to SSD.
 
Regarding the ghosting thing, I used Acronis yesterday to create an image of my drive. It went through with no problems. I don't know if this is the same thing though.
 
just done some quick testing.

reduced my vista startup time to desktop by 15 seconds.

will post some hd tach and tune later, but its beer time now :)
 
I know it has been asked already but will 32gb be fine for a clean install of just vista 64 im sure it will be but just need someone to say the man from del monte he say......?
 
32 will be ok but, if you going to be installing more than a few programs 64gb is needed in vista 64, unless your using a vlited copy of vista to remove most of the crap
 
Vista on its own can use 20Gb of space with all the options and thats not including the page file. It SHOULD be fine, but you won't have a lot of room for anything else so be prepared to install apps etc on another drive.

I would personally say that rather defies the point of having a SSD unless you reboot your PC an awful lot.
 
he should be fine, if he's just installing nero, office 2003, winamp and similar things then he has about 10gb ish for those. You obviously wont be able to install loads of games. Its gunna be a busy few months with lots of manufacturers releasing ssd drives, christmas time will probably give us nicely priced 64gb fast ssd's.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Vista on its own can use 20Gb of space with all the options and thats not including the page file. It SHOULD be fine, but you won't have a lot of room for anything else so be prepared to install apps etc on another drive.

I would personally say that rather defies the point of having a SSD unless you reboot your PC an awful lot.
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Point taken

The SSD was purely for OS & maybe for whatever game is flavour of the month.
I was going to use my two 250gb hard drives in Stripe for everything else.

Its a new build and to be honest.. can afford it & I was looking at possibly the smallest Velociraptor instead but as standard HHD's are desperately out of date compared to everything else this seems a good idea.
 
Regarding benchmarking these drives, PC Mark Vantage is the software recommended by OCZ, apparently other programs such as HD Tach/Tune can produce spurious results due to the way they interpolate the results across the disk.
 
wheres some benchies

edit: found this on xtremesystems
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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3253214&postcount=94
 
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Well ran HDTune on my new OCG v2 60Gb hard drive and it reported this



This compares to my Samsung F1 which shows this



So OCZ is saying max speed of 149mb/s which is considerably lower than that of 170mb/s quoted by OCZ but still very good :)
 
Thats a strange graph, I thought SSD's give a linear result? Try a different benchmark and post that up such as HDTach.

Out of interest does your motherboard support SATA 300? Just curious as that might explain the 149Mb/s max
 
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