Some new SSD goodness

robj20

robj20

robj20

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Just got myself a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, decided to give SSD another go. It didnt go so well the first time with my OCZ Vertex 30GB which failed on me twice so went back to traditional HDDs.

Fingers crossed.
 
i got one on the way too, so im hoping aswell
my first ssd was an ocz and still going good,
had a couple after too

having a read the samsung software is meant to be really good and easy to set it up firmware update etc, im wondering if it has to be blank to do a firmware update like my ocz, i hope not that seems kinda lame

anyway here's hoping we both get good ones :)
 
theyll be no turning back my first SSD was a ocz and it died on me after 3 days and i lost everything :( really ****ed me off then i went to a patriot which was cheap but slow, then i got crucial m4 256 had it for over a year and wow its great
 
Just to let you know, with Samsung 840 PRO drives, samsung giving away Assassins Creed 3 for free if you didn't already know that is. Go to their website to claim your copy.
 
Already done that the guy in the shop (what you do to a barcode) told me when i went to collect it. So far seems alright ran as ssd and it gets nice speeds. I want a 512GB one for my film drive next thats painfully slow at loading at the minute.
 
robj20 said:
Already done that the guy in the shop (what you do to a barcode) told me when i went to collect it. So far seems alright ran as ssd and it gets nice speeds. I want a 512GB one for my film drive next thats painfully slow at loading at the minute.
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Video is a stupid use case for SSD's. Spinning rust will be more than quick enough for that (exception being big uncompressed HD files)
 
Why is it stupid, currently my video directory takes 15 seconds to open i presume this will be much faster on an SSD therefore serving its purpose.

Mei said:
i got one on the way too, so im hoping aswell
my first ssd was an ocz and still going good,
had a couple after too

having a read the samsung software is meant to be really good and easy to set it up firmware update etc, im wondering if it has to be blank to do a firmware update like my ocz, i hope not that seems kinda lame

anyway here's hoping we both get good ones :)
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Well firmware update from within Windows works perfectly just done mine.
 
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Why is it stupid, currently my video directory takes 15 seconds to open i presume this will be much faster on an SSD therefore serving its purpose.
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Videos are large sequential files, that's the worst possible use case for an SSD.
 
I fail to see your reasoning, SSD still has far higher speeds when it comes to sequential read/writes. I fail to see how an SSD wouldn't make any benefit when im browsing my video folders.
 
(50 gigabytes) / (2 hours) = 7.11111111 MB/s

50GB is roughly the size of a BluRay, so you need a drive that can sustain 7.1 MB/s. Last time I benchmarked this, a 5400RPM green disk could easily do 120MB/s on large files, a USB2 external drive does 20-30MB/s. USB3 does 80MB/s.

The SSD is faster sustained on large files, but a spinning disk is 15 times faster than you need for that workload. SSD benefits are on small random reads and writes, which makes them great for OS and DB tasks - stuff that kills a HDD.

If you take 15 seconds to browse your video folders, something else is wrong. I have over a terabyte of video files on a 5400RPM USB3 external drive split into a couple of hundred folders and it loads near enough instantly.
 
Nothing wrong with my system, its just the way i organise my videos using the details view, multiple folders and files. I never said i wanted speed for watching them, so not sure why you mention that. Purely for the viewing of the folders.
 
robj20 said:
Nothing wrong with my system, its just the way i organise my videos using the details view, multiple folders and files. I never said i wanted speed for watching them, so not sure why you mention that. Purely for the viewing of the folders.
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That's weird, it loads straight away for my machine using a Folder per File with 200+ Folders. There's a hit now and then as it updates the thumbnails.

I'm just saying, a hdd is about 10x cheaper than an ssd and perfectly fine for video. It's your money.
 
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