Did i hear correct OCZ VERTEX V2?

yah thats true, more GB for your £ and more speed = happy peeps!

also something that i have never quite understood, in a standard disk drive, why do the disks need to be so thick? and why so heavy? surly a thin light disk would be better? cheaper? faster?
 
well, i imagine that half the reason is to give the manufacturers a reason to bump up the price, the other reason will be reliability/ruggedness/shock absorbance etc... (true if you drop one on you're foot it will probably break you're toes) and the other reason is that the HDD's case is to it's components what a standard case is to all of the components in you're pc, it's just there to facilitate/store the individual components that go into a standard hard drive such as the platters, pcb etc...
 
i dont think thin platters would hold the electronic charge (1's and 0's) as good as a solid chunky piece nor probably spin as well. something resembling the lid of a torn open can spinning in there would be v unreliable lol
 
FaceplantSi said:
Yeah isn't it just! But worth getting your head around. It was what made my mind up about the Vertex series... I'm actually considering getting another 30Gb one to add to my boot RAID 0 array as I reckon that should give plenty of room for Apps etc (currently have 2 and they are about half full), then maybe another 1Tb Sammie F1 to run a RAID 1 data array! :)
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Definately worth the time reading it. Actually made a complex subject sound relatively straight forward (well numpties like me can understand it anyway).

Darn it is getting hard to resist one of these. Really tempted to get a small one for a netbook and at somepoint (when they are a bit cheaper will grab a larger one for the laptop too).
 
Seems to be a few posts around telling people to wait before buying SSD.
What I took away from the Anadtech article is that sequential transfer speeds are not that important. If you are using the drive for OS and apps then its the almost zero seek times and therefore high speed random read/writes that makes the difference for day to day use of your pc.

I have no doubt that the future drives will benchmark faster but (IMHO) I doubt it will make much difference in "normal" use, at least not nearly as much as moving from HDD to SSD does right now.

If you are waiting due to price then fair enough we all know the arguments around that one and it depends on the individual in the end.
 
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