SSD advice ...

ok , so best to get an ssd with trim ...which the sammy does not have ...got it !.
looks like the g-skills it is then ....
was not going to get one for a bit ,was going to wait for price to drop ...but you have all changed my mind !!!!!! lol

Some say would be good to get 2 64gb drives and raid 0 then , does it make that much difference ? i hate the long load up times that im having with raid 0 on my hard drives at moment , take about 10 secs just to load raid controller so thought be good to get an ssd and turn off raid so the system would boot up faster .
thanks for the advise everyone :)
 
^^ Good price, considering the Gskill is around 268 thats a saving of around £18, compared to the actual OCZ vertex which is surprisingly overpriced, thats a saving of around £50.
 
karlos103 said:
ok , so best to get an ssd with trim ...which the sammy does not have ...got it !.
looks like the g-skills it is then ....
was not going to get one for a bit ,was going to wait for price to drop ...but you have all changed my mind !!!!!! lol

Some say would be good to get 2 64gb drives and raid 0 then , does it make that much difference ? i hate the long load up times that im having with raid 0 on my hard drives at moment , take about 10 secs just to load raid controller so thought be good to get an ssd and turn off raid so the system would boot up faster .
thanks for the advise everyone :)
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that depends, if you want extremely fast transfer speeds then you could go with RAID.

If you just want a snappy system at a cheaper rate then get the single drive.
 
if using SSD no raid is the best option more so for TRIM reasons when windows 7 fully comes out as RAID will not support it at the moment , you Not likely to see any improvement in system response times as the system response time is fast any way with one SSD (unless you love benchmarks that do not show real world use )

only get 128gb SSDs as you fill the SSD to the point it will degrade (should allways keep 20-30gb free)

on my next reload most likey going to partition it 100gb so Shadow copys do not fill the drive up (vista/windows 7/2008), if you Partition it it should take a lot longer for the SSD to degrade but i could do with some review web sites to test that theory (its how Intel SSDs do it)
 
leexgx said:
on my next reload most likey going to partition it 100gb so Shadow copys do not fill the drive up (vista/windows 7/2008), if you Partition it it should take a lot longer for the SSD to degrade but i could do with some review web sites to test that theory (its how Intel SSDs do it)
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that sounds like it would affect the wear levelling to me,so it would only wear level the 100gb partition, therefore accelerating degradation, though I could be wrong.
 
wear leveling Writes to All parts of the SSD, as it uses LBA reallocation (basically where windows tells the data to be written is not where it is placed on the SSD as it remaps the LBA to the cell that the wear leveling has Written the data to with the lowest Write used count), Intel SSDs do this you buy an SSD and 2-3 GB is set aside to keep the disk in good speed but in the end it will degrade, why tools like what OCZ use are needed

when windows 7 comes out and SSD makers get the updated firmware with TRIM support (Propper ATA Trim support) all the issues with Write speeds degrading will drop off as long as they up grade to windows 7

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also what that last user posted is not recommended not proven as i not seen any info that back up what it does (it may be doing Low level format but on an LBA layer on free space that has no data)
 
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