Solid State Drives (SSDs) - has your time finally arrived?

Recently got a Corsair Force F80 , prolly best upgrade that i have done to my computer, got more of a gain than going from a Q6600 to a i7 930.

Im getting about 10-15 secs boot times into Windows 7 and WoW loads up real quick.

Ill never use a mechanical drive for the OS for my desktop PC ever.

Only downside is that i wish i got a higher capacity one
 
Looking around, I have located the following performance figures:
  • C300 60GB SSD (£112)- Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 70MB/s
  • C300 120GB SSD (£223) - Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 140MB/s
  • C300 240GB SSD (£399) - Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 215MB/s
  • Samsung F3 (1TB = £41) - Read = 110 MB/s - Write = 110MB/s
In the circumstances, I find it impossible to see any rational justification for buying a 60GB SSD rather than a 1TB Samsung F3 simply in order simply to halve the system boot time and allow programs to load a wee bit faster; particularly since if you were to use it for your page file, the increased write-time might well end up slowing down the system in day-to-day use anyhow :confused:

I'm not sure what impact using two mirrored (Raid 1) 1GB Spinpoint F3s would have on read time?
 
stockhausen said:
Looking around, I have located the following performance figures:
  • C300 60GB SSD (£112)- Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 70MB/s
  • C300 120GB SSD (£223) - Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 140MB/s
  • C300 240GB SSD (£399) - Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 215MB/s
  • Samsung F3 (1TB = £41) - Read = 110 MB/s - Write = 110MB/s
In the circumstances, I find it impossible to see any rational justification for buying a 60GB SSD rather than a 1TB Samsung F3 simply in order simply to halve the system boot time and allow programs to load a wee bit faster; particularly since if you were to use it for your page file, the increased write-time might well end up slowing down the system in day-to-day use anyhow :confused:

I'm not sure what impact using two mirrored (Raid 1) 1GB Spinpoint F3s would have on read time?
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It's not only throughput but response time.

There aren't many upgrades that will more than triple your performance, unless you're coming from some serious old skool h/w! So for me, it's a no-brainer.

RIP HDD, you're too slow :D
 
stockhausen said:
Looking around, I have located the following performance figures:
  • C300 60GB SSD (£112)- Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 70MB/s
  • C300 120GB SSD (£223) - Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 140MB/s
  • C300 240GB SSD (£399) - Read = 355 MB/s - Write = 215MB/s
  • Samsung F3 (1TB = £41) - Read = 110 MB/s - Write = 110MB/s
In the circumstances, I find it impossible to see any rational justification for buying a 60GB SSD rather than a 1TB Samsung F3 simply in order simply to halve the system boot time and allow programs to load a wee bit faster; particularly since if you were to use it for your page file, the increased write-time might well end up slowing down the system in day-to-day use anyhow :confused:

I'm not sure what impact using two mirrored (Raid 1) 1GB Spinpoint F3s would have on read time?
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Those figures are all for sequential reads or writes and don't tell the whole story.

When using a computer that only happens when you save a large file, normally (e.g. when opening a new program or saving a file) the action requires data from many different parts of the disc, then access time is far more important. That's why everyone who has used an SSD says the same thing, it makes the system so much more responsive. Average access time for a Samsung F3 is over 10msecs, for an SSD typically 0.1 msec.

I use my own a desktop and a laptop with SSD's, and then my Company Laptop with normal HDD, the work laptop is reasonably up to date, Core 2 duo, 7200 HDD and so on, but it's painfully slow by comparison. Not helped by the Corporate Bloat I know, but waiting for apps to open really brings home the benefits of the SSD in my own systems.
 
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