Samsung 64GB 2.5" SATA-II MLC Solid State Hard Drive

adam1v said:
lol, I already went down the 8gb ram route a couple of weeks back (given the price of DDR2 now).
I've managed to hide the spending from the misses, so all is well :D

Its obviously essiental to get a 64 bit OS (just to bare in mind).
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i have one and my finger is hovering over the 8gb kingston deal for £79
 
adam1v said:
do you ONLY use it for your internet browser?
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i have my hand hovering over the 8gb kingston and 2samsung ssd's at the moment :p

anyway for the ramdrive you can really do what you want, you can store cache of lots of programs, e-mail apps, internet files you can even set things you want to keep to disk aswell but say every 15 mins, or every 2 hours, and you can setup it up to write to disk at a press of a button so you can backup permanently what you like. Its mostly so you don't keep cache the same page to hard disk which will change constantly, and temp files you really don't need to write to hdd just to get deleted when you reboot anyway can just stay in mem and get deleted without the added wear/tear of writes to the ssd.

To be honest I'm not sure how much it helps with longevity, no one knows yet to be honest. Its not really about speed either, its mostly about limiting small writes to the drive.

The ramdisk for readyboost thing, has anyone tested it yet, if you've disabled pagefile windows will still somestimes use a pagefile, mostly because its an ass. But if you have readyboost with pagefile disabled, seeing as its a backup copy of pagefile, does it actually get used, but most importantly, if you enable pagefile but set it to use the ramdisk and only the ramdisk is that the best way forwards.

Ultimately its all down to terrible windows design, some programs crash without pagefile enabled, even if theres more than enough memory for the data to sit in, programmers, and windows just sets some data to not be in memory but to be in pagefile "just in case".

I'm really hating how long windows and other software, hardware to takes to move forwards. Frankly Vista should only ever have been 64bit to force everyone to support 64bit only, get it done and not drag it out. THe 64/32bit driver redundancy is a large reason for how massive a vista install is, look in the driver folders, its insane the amount of old crap they support instead of leaving it on dvd for you to install from if needed, then they install a 32bit driver backup aswell. if Vista had been 64bit only but with the 32bit backup at least most of the industry would be so 64bit ready Windows 7 could be 64bit only with no trouble and do away with all the redundancy.
 
Lejimster, as I understand it the default offset for Vista is 1024kb, rather than say 64kb or 128kb that most use, maybe 256 or even 512(which seems to work with apex's in raid due to the 2 internal controllers).

But again as I understand you're probably want stripe half of the offset, which means you might want to try with a 256kb offset for raid with the 128kb stripe assuming 128kb stripe is max. I keep meaning to check this 790fx board, I'm sure the max offset was 128kb when i installed these normal hdd's. But I'm thinking the default vista is too large and doesn't quite gel with the stripe number that well either which could be bringing the i/o random write speeds down on the drive.

If you don't fancy doing it, i'm gonna be playing around with 2 tomorrow and will probably start with128kb stripe 256 offset and we can see what numbers that throws up.
 
TBH I can't be bothered with any more tweaking lol. But sure if you come up with any new findings let us know. It is possible the make the performance worse rather than better if you get the offset wrong however, so just bare that in mind and GL!
 
I've just finished installing Vista and going through all the tweaks on my new Samsung SSD. I'm very impressed with the speed. Everything just flies and its a great wow factor. I'm dreading going into work tomorrow as my work PC isn't the fastest in the world to begin with.
 
shine said:
I've just finished installing Vista and going through all the tweaks on my new Samsung SSD. I'm very impressed with the speed. Everything just flies and its a great wow factor. I'm dreading going into work tomorrow as my work PC isn't the fastest in the world to begin with.
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its great that everyone that has these comes back to say how impressed they are with them,,, the only people that are not impressed with them are the people that dont have them ;)
 
Paul11 said:
its great that everyone that has these comes back to say how impressed they are with them,,, the only people that are not impressed with them are the people that dont have them ;)
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Indeed, I'm impressed enough that I woke up this morning thinking I should get 1 for the laptop and another for my desktop so I can raid them. I'll have to hide the credit card! :p
 
Tbh I'm not really that impressed with mine, is it because I haven't done the alignment? I should have time to do it this weekend.
 
Just installed Samsung 64Gb MLC on a Q6600 / ASUS P5K. Fresh installation of Windows7. HD Tune shows minimum 80MBsec, Max 170MBsec and Avg 150MBsec. Access Time 0.1ms.

Mobo takes about 30 seconds to complete it's post, Windows then took about 12 seconds to reach login prompt.

Will do the same again later this week with Windows XP.

Cheers
 
Paul11 said:
i have one and my finger is hovering over the 8gb kingston deal for £79
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8gb is almost mandatory with the SSD's if you use Vista, between the memory hog Vista is even with the pagefile off and using the RAMdisk it's very easy to hit that limit.
 
marscay said:
8gb is almost mandatory with the SSD's if you use Vista, between the memory hog Vista is even with the pagefile off and using the RAMdisk it's very easy to hit that limit.
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just ordered myself 8gb :)


can you use ramdisk for your pagefile???
 
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Paul11 said:
just ordered myself 8gb :)


can you use ramdisk for your pagefile???
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yeh you can put the pagefile anywhere, probably not a bad idea because i'm sure Vista still uses one even when you disable it .....at least this way you seemingly have some control over how much to use and where it is put.
 
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