Are SSD's Worth it?

Ok so my question is again can i have os and apps on one ssd and games on another ssd and still run both drivers in windows and in RAID?

What is all this degradation people talk about? do these SSD hard drives get bad after a while?
 
dmxdex2020 said:
Ok so my question is again can i have os and apps on one ssd and games on another ssd and still run both drivers in windows and in RAID?

What is all this degradation people talk about? do these SSD hard drives get bad after a while?
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(Offtopic: Hows the 4870X2?)
 
Sash said:
(Offtopic: Hows the 4870X2?)
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Complete and utterly broke lol, i just havent got round to sending it back yet im having to have a desktop fan keep it cool right now.

2 of the fans have stopped working im getting it wrapped up tonight and sent away tommorrow.
 
dmxdex2020 said:
Complete and utterly broke lol, i just havent got round to sending it back yet im having to have a desktop fan keep it cool right now.

2 of the fans have stopped working im getting it wrapped up tonight and sent away tommorrow.
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Thats a bit crap. Going for the same one to replace or looking for alternatives. I havent had any problems with my so far touchwood. Sucks to hear that. I still havent had a chance to see if there are LEDs on it, I keep forgetting to check lol

dmxdex2020 said:
What is your furmark score on 1280x with no AA?
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With 3.6ghz quad core processor 4gig ram and that res (I am assuming 3dmark06??) Its sitting at just over 20k.
Edit: Not tried furmark didnt know they were different lol
Will do tonight.
 
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dmxdex2020 said:
Ok so my question is again can i have os and apps on one ssd and games on another ssd and still run both drivers in windows and in RAID?

What is all this degradation people talk about? do these SSD hard drives get bad after a while?
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Like people have said using RAID you can store all that on both drives. But if the drives are seperate I'm not sure if you can install games on the seperate none OS drive, probably not?

On SSD degradation. Really degradation is the wrong word, as the drive doesn't actually degrade at all. Its simply that SSD is slower at re-writing/overwriting files then it is at writing to a previously unused portion of the drive. Also SSD doesn't fully empty a deleted part of the drive until you come to write to it again, so writing to a part of the drive you've deleted something from is the same speed as re-writing/overwriting a file.

However once every part of the drive has been written to once the drives write speeds will get no slower from that point and the slow down is usually no more then 30% (and usually more like 15%). Read speeds aren't affected either and a low level format will put the drive back to maximum speed when you eventually come to reinstall your OS.

I mean its pretty similar to the way a standard HDD gets slower as you install more stuff really, just for a different reason. The SSD is still going to be miles faster then a standard HDD even when its gotten to its slowest point.
 
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I guess i will just buy 2 and not bother with raid its not that i will need it really all i do is gaming and with games on 1 ssd it should be a lot quicker compared to standard hdd's

Cheers for that analaysis teasy ;)
 
If you all look at my post above, for whatever reason it also increased my read speeds. I thought the same though. Granted it really improved the write speeds more than read speeds, it still gave read speeds a little boost.

And the speed decrease will probably never be noticed by human eyes. Only benchmarks really as I have not noticed it being any faster or slower ever.
 
to answer the question directly, it depends. It depends on how much you're budget is, what brand you buy and how much memory you get.

I am currently using 3 different types of SSD's from 2 different manufacturers. I am using both a 128GB and a 64GB Samsung SSD and 4 32GB Patriot warp SSD's in software Raid.

I have noticed very little difference between the drives in terms of MB's per second (the 64GB samsung is roughly 110/90 and the raided patriots are around 275/200 Mbs in software raid) read and write but the biggest difference comes from the 0.2ms average access time and the use/installation of programs. Searches, program listing in installed programs via the control pannel and virus scans are practically instantaneous.

What i suspect is happening though, in my case ,is that since i am running Windows XP on the 128GB samsung drive and the 4 32GB patriot drives in software raid (for the moment, until i can be bothered to install vista) is that the patriot drives are bottlenecking the samsung drive when they are writing files to it.

But in essence (As long as you avoid certain drives like the crucial drives, some transcend drives and a few others, the new OCZ drives don't seem worth it to me or the raid card's that have recently come out for PCIE slots, the performance/storage does'nt seem to justify the price) yes they are worth it. Much better than mechanical for storing the OS on but if you do go for SSD's i would still use mechanical drives/usb hard drives or even NAS for storage drives if i were you.
 
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dmxdex2020 said:
I guess i will just buy 2 and not bother with raid its not that i will need it really all i do is gaming and with games on 1 ssd it should be a lot quicker compared to standard hdd's

Cheers for that analaysis teasy ;)
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The only benefit of not RAIDing would be that if one drive went down, you would lose all data (although you should backup stuff of course). Otherwise go for RAID0 which will still give you the full capacity of two drives but will be much quicker than a single. You can treat it the same way and have a partition for Windows and one for Games etc but it will separate the data you copy to both drives, which makes reading data very quick (as it will pull data from two drives at the same time).
 
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The only benefit of not RAIDing would be that if one drive went down, you would lose all data (although you should backup stuff of course). Otherwise go for RAID0 which will still give you the full capacity of two drives but will be much quicker than a single. You can treat it the same way and have a partition for Windows and one for Games etc but it will separate the data you copy to both drives, which makes reading data very quick (as it will pull data from two drives at the same time).
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Ok cheers for that duke when i get my new rig up and running i will come onto the forums for assistance on RAID0 how to go about it.
 
How fast are the 16GB and 32GB SSD drives in the Dell Mini 9 and Dell Mini 10?

Just looking for a small cheap but fast SSD to use in a media center.
 
FacePlantSi, GreenLizard, You like my wallpaper? I can e-mail it to you if you wish. It is my fav.

What emails do I need to send it to?

btw- Its 1680x1050 (my native res) I can try to see if I can find one bigger than than, just let me know the dimensions...
 
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FacePlantSi, GreenLizard, You like my wallpaper? I can e-mail it to you if you wish. It is my fav.

What emails do I need to send it to?

btw- Its 1680x1050 (my native res) I can try to see if I can find one bigger than than, just let me know the dimensions...
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Thanks.

Are there any non-wide screen versions of it? What's the website where you got it from?

Your trust isn't enabled, so I can't email you. You can email me but you can't enclose an attachment lol"!
 
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