Easyriders Journey into SSD

deus3x said:
SSD is best thing for my PC since multi core CPU's. I love my SSD and will NEVER go back to a harddrive for my OS.
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I couldn't fail to agree with you less. I had a Crucial M225 and found it to be a rather large disapointment, considering the extreme price per gigabyte compared to a mechanical drive. I shall not be buying another SSD until they are below £1 per GB.
 
Saundie said:
I couldn't fail to agree with you less. I had a Crucial M225 and found it to be a rather large disapointment, considering the extreme price per gigabyte compared to a mechanical drive. I shall not be buying another SSD until they are below £1 per GB.
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Are you sure you had it set-up correctly?

I don't need more than 64GB for my OS

I haven't for years.


All my stuff is on my 5TB windows home server.

I just bring stuff into my workstation when needed, edit it and render it out

Considering how much I spent on a 150GB Raptor the 125 quid I paid on the Crucial is cheap for the speed you get.

I'm still chuckling at how Vegas 9 Pro loads instantly with a flashing cursor on the timeline waiting for the HD footage.

How Photoshop CS4 no longer loads when I click a 8mb Nef file to view and edit.

It just appears like I had opened it in windows photo viewer :p

BTW I'm not justifying my purchase...If it was rubbish then it would be going back....Its not though so its stays :D
 
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I've just bought this drive for £135, I had a search around the 'net and couldn't find it for the price you got it for easyrider! Regarding firmware updates, I've read on the Crucial site that if it comes with Firmware 1711 I need to downgrade to 1571 and then up to 1819... what it doesn't say though is that I can upgrade straight from 1571 to 1916! Is that possible?

Cheers :)

Kona
 
Kona* said:
I've just bought this drive for £135, I had a search around the 'net and couldn't find it for the price you got it for easyrider! Regarding firmware updates, I've read on the Crucial site that if it comes with Firmware 1711 I need to downgrade to 1571 and then up to 1819... what it doesn't say though is that I can upgrade straight from 1571 to 1916! Is that possible?

Cheers :)

Kona
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fornowagain said:
I flashed from 1571 > 1916 and no issues with the install, so yeah should be fine.
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I installed my 64GB M225 last night after updating to the latest firmware and I must say it's a huge improvement, I really should have got a 128GB one though - I've nearly filled it up already after only installing: Win 7, WoW, TF2 & L4D! I'm keeping the remaining 5GB or so for Office, Lightroom and Photoshop. I think I'll plug in my old 500GB Hitachi for games that I don't want instant loading times for :) Time to check out if you can install Steam games in different directories or not!

Kona
 
bought my 60GB SSD from OcUK and installed win 7 and photoshop with 33GB left.

Now looking for another 60ish just for my games file so I can get rid of my Mechanical HD.

I was running 2x250GB in raid and SSD in single wins!

May be I should buy another SSD and raid that :)
 
Locky said:
I will keep my 4x veloci raptor raid for a while longer tbh.
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Ok, mechanical hdd's in raid 0 are nice for unraring files and moving large data files around, but in terms of performance, 4x raptors in raid can't come even remotely close to the access times or small file write performance of the worst ssd's on the market.

Cost wise Raptors offer worse performance than SSD's, they are so marginally ahead of standard 7,200rpm drives, for a huge extra cost, and noise, and lower capacity.

A £100 64gb Crucial is far better value than a raptor tbh.

I have a couple ssd's, and a couple cheap mechanical drives in raid 0 for downloading, unraring and large data duties, best of both worlds, and it would all have costed quite a bit less than 4 raptors, offering better performance all around, with less noise and far higher capacity.

I'd ditch any raptors you might have while other people would still bother paying any money for them.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=20

thats why raptors suck, yes its not in raid, but 4 in raid 0 would not be close to 1/4 of the time to load, in which case for a higher cost it would still be slower, sequential speeds scale very well in mechanical hdd's, loading lots of random small files doesn't improve much in raid 0 and is terrible to start with, I'd imagine 4raptors in raid would barely break 20 seconds in that test. The difference is massive.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=22

the bottom graph is what happens when you try to load multiple apps at the same time, random reads on hdd's are horrible, absolutely horrible.
 
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China Man said:
bought my 60GB SSD from OcUK and installed win 7 and photoshop with 33GB left.

Now looking for another 60ish just for my games file so I can get rid of my Mechanical HD.

I was running 2x250GB in raid and SSD in single wins!

May be I should buy another SSD and raid that :)
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Install the same game on both the SSD and mechanical, be honest, is it anything more than a couple seconds extra loading, in most games the difference is VERY minimal, solution is to stick those games, and your short term games on mechanical and stick hard drive limited or long term games on the ssd.

If I install a new game I won't play very often and will likely delete after playing, it goes on my mechanical, if its an MMO or something I play several times a week or has a lot of loading in it, it goes on my ssd.

IN reality that meant MW2 went on my mechanical, and Lotro/Eve went on my SSD. MW2 because I'll leave it installed for ages but the performance of loading into a map 3 seconds earlier, before the round actually starts, really doesn't help. Games really aren't where SSD's shine in general, the odd things like MMO's with massive texture loading in heavily populated area's can suffer from stuttering while loading so many textures, SSD's help there, but loading times and minimum framerates in something like MW2/Mass effect 2 would be negligible.
 
I have programs installed on my SSD and I never notice the HD working everything just pop up, as soon as I hit my games icon the HD spring to life and then you hear the spinning whine, then the reading data then the HD led flashing then the loading :P

I still have on 250gb HD in my machine and I think I got the SSD bug and want a total quite machine. all my media and back up files are store on my 1T network drive and it even do BT download in the back ground.
 
i hear OCZ are going to be bringing out a 1TB ssd.... guess ill start saving the pennies (or £20 notes i should say) because the sooner i get rid of these HDDs the better! i LOVE my ssd. as many have said. by far the best upgrade i have made in a long time.
 
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