** Samsung 830 seres SSD, CRAZY PRICE ** READ POST 342

Well I was advised the price I paid was the price and they couldn't refund anything as the order had shipped. Do I DSR it and keep an eye on prices? I really should have just bought a 128GB drive?!
 
Drive caching works really well. You can gain about %90 of the performance of an SSD but have 1-2TB of storage space. I used to have a 60GB SSD to cache a 2TB drive and got superb results.
 
Darkman said:
Already been done.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&subid=1894

Not really worth it imo as you just double the chances of component failure and the speed/price/performance ratio just doesn't make sense.
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Sorry, I think you misunderstood. I know there are hybrid drives where NAND caches a HDD but in that case it isn't doing away with mechanical storage entirely is it! What I described was a hybrid where rather than a traditional HDD, instead in its place there would be a large amount of cheap NAND (the kind of stuff you can get in USB flash drives) and there would be a smaller amount of say fast Toggle NAND to handle the speedy stuff such as OS, etc. Maybe it's entirely unfeasible but it was just a thought that occured to me.
 
martian_aphid said:
Sorry, I think you misunderstood. I know there are hybrid drives where NAND caches a HDD but in that case it isn't doing away with mechanical storage entirely is it! What I described was a hybrid where rather than a traditional HDD, instead in its place there would be a large amount of cheap NAND (the kind of stuff you can get in USB flash drives) and there would be a smaller amount of say fast Toggle NAND to handle the speedy stuff such as OS, etc. Maybe it's entirely unfeasible but it was just a thought that occured to me.
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This is something I have thought about myself, hybrid NAND. It's kind of already been done however.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/chou-university-builds-hybrid-nand-reram-unit/
 
MOOGLEYS said:
Drive caching works really well. You can gain about %90 of the performance of an SSD but have 1-2TB of storage space. I used to have a 60GB SSD to cache a 2TB drive and got superb results.
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Would it be worth me getting a 64gb sammy for my games array instead of buying a 256gb one and sticking them all on there do you think?
 
-Mike- said:
Would it be worth me getting a 64gb sammy for my games array instead of buying a 256gb one and sticking them all on there do you think?
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It worked really well for me. Tbh I now have 2 x Samsung 830 drives for my games and I'm thinking of going back to a mechanical drive with a cache drive as the difference in speeds is not that much and not having to move games around all the time is so much better.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
It worked really well for me. Tbh I now have 2 x Samsung 830 drives for my games and I'm thinking of going back to a mechanical drive with a cache drive as the difference in speeds is not that much and not having to move games around all the time is so much better.
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64gb drives are such bad value for money now compared to the 128 and 256's though!

256gb would be more than enough for what I play in any one period of time. I currently only have cs:s installed along with l4d2.
 
-Mike- said:
64gb drives are such bad value for money now compared to the 128 and 256's though!

256gb would be more than enough for what I play in any one period of time. I currently only have cs:s installed along with l4d2.
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Fair enough I have about 1.4Tb of games installed so for me a bit of a boost and not having to swap games around was much better.

In your case a 256gb would be ideal.....
 
MOOGLEYS said:
It worked really well for me. Tbh I now have 2 x Samsung 830 drives for my games and I'm thinking of going back to a mechanical drive with a cache drive as the difference in speeds is not that much and not having to move games around all the time is so much better.
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What are you going to do with those lovely new samsungs then :0
 
What's the difference between the 3 different 128gb drives that OCuK stock? the 128n is the notebook version and the 128d is for desktops, but what's the 128b that's on this week only? Samsung dont list it on their website - is it just the drive on its own? If it is then I'll give it a miss seeing as the other two are a tenner cheaper lol
 
Looks like just the drive on its own (no mounting kit, no ghost) based on more detailed descriptions of all three at other retailers.
 
At last I've got around to installing this (my first SSD)

Its a brand new Sandybridge build with this as the only hard drive.

I was looking forwards to win7 (64) loading very fast like Ive heard but its no quicker than my previous 1TB 7200 drive.

Ive run this benchmark, is it OK? , If so, I'm not sure why windows doesn't load any quicker.

 
If you have mechanical drives in your system as well that will slow down boot times but also people make out SSD drives much better than they are, they have good points but i would never say to anyone there fantastic.
 
chippy08 said:
If you have mechanical drives in your system as well that will slow down boot times but also people make out SSD drives much better than they are, they have good points but i would never say to anyone there fantastic.
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Then you must have only used old or really cheap SSDs.

They make everything faster - so much so, even my mother noticed when I upgraded her PC and she's not the most technically minded.

Single most noticable upgrade you can do to any computer bought in the last 5 years.
 
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