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Can someone explain to me what SSD's are ? and what they do better then a normal Hard Drive.

I'm giving some thought to getting a new Hard Drive ( just for my operating system, Vista 64x ) and using my current hard drives for apps / games / music.
 
In simple terms, an SSD is similar to a memory stick, It doesn't use a magnetic disk like a hard disk and there are no moving parts. This means its quieter and in theory uses less power. The main advantage is that there is no delay waiting for the hard disk read head to move to the right point on the disk so random access times are vastly superior with an SSD.
 
So a SSD will be quicker and quieter then a normal hard drive ?

Getting a 60GB SSD for an operating system would be better then a normal HDD and then just using a HDD for storage / games.
 
Tummy said:
So a SSD will be quicker and quieter then a normal hard drive ?

Getting a 60GB SSD for an operating system would be better then a normal HDD and then just using a HDD for storage / games.
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SSD seek times are a lot lower. Read and write speeds are also better as well.

If you can't afford enough SSD space for your OS and programmes, then I'd go for a SSD boot drive, and separate magnetic drives for programmes and storage.
i.e.
SSD OS drive
320gb programmes + games drive (e.g. samsumg F1)
X gb storage drives
 
There's plenty of threads regaring SSD's and performance, check the OCZ Vertex Owners thread here for benchies and info regarding them.

Also, and just for info, before I switched to SSD's I tested my 1Tb Sammy F1 with ATTO and got around 85Mb/s write and 90Mb/s read, now with 3 x 30Gb Vertex's in RAID 0 ATTO shows 460Mb/s write and 600Mb/s read so that's the kind of difference we're seeing - needless to say Vista performs rather better than it did... :)
 
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