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

Ignoring the weird benchmark results and just using the drive, it is very noticeably quicker than my regular HDD. It is also noticeably quicker (for reading anyway) than my old Velociraptor.

Loading stuff for the first time is virtually like it's already sitting in the RAM, that's how quick it seems.
 
questforquiet said:
Do you have photoshop on your PC,if yes how fast does it load?
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Photoshop opens under 4 seconds on my PC, but that's because it's all stored in Superfetch. I have one absolutely packed to the rafters 320GB boot drive that's currently slow as sin.

For the people with these, what other improvements are you seeing bar program loading times? Does anyone use one as a photoshop scratchdisk?
 
Adrianr said:
Photoshop opens under 4 seconds on my PC, but that's because it's all stored in Superfetch. I have one absolutely packed to the rafters 320GB boot drive that's currently slow as sin.

For the people with these, what other improvements are you seeing bar program loading times? Does anyone use one as a photoshop scratchdisk?
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Not much difference between a fast SSD and having superfetch on with a regular hdd, except for the fact you keep more RAM free and you boot faster because you don't have to pre-load all these files into ram on every boot.

I specifically move my scratch disks onto my old HDD to protect my MLC drives from excessive small writes. If I was going to use it as a scratch disk I'd probably get one specifically for the job and I'd try and make sure it was SLC if possible.
 
anyone got any benchmarks of how the samsungs compare tp the ocz Apex drives?

i'm thinking of buying a 60GB Apex at the end of the month and going completely solid state, doing away with standard drives altogether. Hell, i don't need all of that storage space & if i did i can always buy a usb hard drive.
 
jrwagh333 said:
But then in a few months, we could say that again. Oh 128gb at a lower price. Might as well wait until the 256gb's come lower in price...

Do you see where I'm going? lol
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Not only that, but why not just get 2 64GB ones and RAID0 them...they will last 2x longer (lol maybe) because your only reading half the data of each drive...

I'm sure it's not like this and more based on read operations...but who knows.
 
LeJimster said:
Not much difference between a fast SSD and having superfetch on with a regular hdd, except for the fact you keep more RAM free and you boot faster because you don't have to pre-load all these files into ram on every boot.

I specifically move my scratch disks onto my old HDD to protect my MLC drives from excessive small writes. If I was going to use it as a scratch disk I'd probably get one specifically for the job and I'd try and make sure it was SLC if possible.
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Gotcha, cheers for that. The boot times are tempting as I currently use sleep (I know I know save the planet, sorry!) as I like to be able to boot up my PC and do some work whenever I get 10 minutes, and I dont like waiting 5 of those for a usable system. Wasn't sure about the little reads/writes and how fast they could kill it as a scratchdisk so i'l stick with my current one for now.

Tempted by a 64GB SSD for the OS and 320gb x 2 RAID0 for programs with seperate scrtahdisk and storage drives. Anyone run this setup?
 
Well if I got 2 of these would mounting them in my case with blutak be ok at least as a temporary solution?

Would it be best to turn off 'file indexing'?

And what's a scratchdisk? :)
 
VortexA1 said:
Well if I got 2 of these would mounting them in my case with blutak be ok at least as a temporary solution?

Would it be best to turn off 'file indexing'?

And what's a scratchdisk? :)
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I've got mine sitting flat in my bottom 5.25" bay. Do turn off file indexing - you don't need it with an SSD.

Scrathdisk - is basically a way of saying use a magnetic HDD for writing your temp files.
 
shine said:
I've got mine sitting flat in my bottom 5.25" bay. Do turn off file indexing - you don't need it with an SSD.

Scrathdisk - is basically a way of saying use a magnetic HDD for writing your temp files.
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OK ta mate.

So would it be best to have a scratchdisk then if I decide to click 'buy' on these..and how do you do that?? I've googled it and can't find anything on Vista. :)
 
VortexA1 said:
OK ta mate.

So would it be best to have a scratchdisk then if I decide to click 'buy' on these..and how do you do that?? I've googled it and can't find anything on Vista. :)
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Follow this guide once you've installed Vista on your SSD. Should cover everything you need, if not just post here.
 
ok mate thank you.

I've just ordered 2 of the beauties right now ..will be with me tomorrow.

:D I'll have a look at that guide and once I've got it up will post my findings.

That link says to turn off the paging file..I thought that wasn't a good idea???
 
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