Spec me SSD for work

Roverno

Roverno

Roverno

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Hi all,

So the idea here is to persuade the place that i work at to start using SSDs in the systems for the engineers on site as we really need better performance and i think that using hard drives are such a dated and slow storage.

I want to get a fairly cheap but reliable (failure will not bode well for future uptake) SSD with a capacity of 256GB or 240. speeds dont need to fantastic as anything will be significantly better than a hard drive so SATA II would be fine.

The best i could see on OCUK was the intel 256GB at £161.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-030-IN&groupid=1657&catid=2101&subcat=2393

Id love to be able to spend less than that, if anybody has any suggestions then that would be fantastic, thanks.
 
illuz said:
Though the top one is out of stock, I would contact OCuK and see if they're getting them in stock soon. Both the same price though the 830 has faster write speeds than the 840 (unless you get the PRO version but that's out of budget)
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Thanks, thats a lot more than i was expecting to get. Is it worth a look around for some cheap SATA II drives or not?
 
Right, so this may be going ahead but i need to try and prove their value to the company in saving time.

I thought a good way to do this might be to have a program that will monitor all activity to the hard drive for a full day and store the data (effectively a hard drive activity log). This can then be used to show time saving through improved read/write speeds and thus saving company time and money.

1) is that a good idea?
2) is there a program that will do such a thing?
 
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Search for disk benchmark tools, one of those is probably what you need. No need to run all day though, just comparing the performance stats between a HD and SSD should suffice.

Don't forget to also quote their power saving ability. When I first fitted one to my laptop a few years ago there was a nice bump in battery life. The latest ones are even better. I have no idea what in terms of £ fitting an SSD would save though, depends on how many hours used and how many hours idle etc -a HD can nearly completely power down when not used but a SSD is kinda always on or they used to be.regardless of use the company definately would save some £ in energy usage
I think these days, companies mentioning their more 'green' products in use can impress customers.
 
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