SSD Boot Drive

[mythrandyr]

i have an aus P5Q3 Deluxe Wi-fi P45 board at the mo but that's not the problem, problem was that the sata power connection port at the back of the drive itself was fooked.

Trouble is, now i don't know what to do. Their is a good possibility that the outlet that i bought the drive from may not issue a replacement which means that i may have to buy yet another one at the end of the month.

and then i have another conundrum because i want to be entirely solid state soon and i don't know wether to make my last drive (i'm only going for 3 until i get a new motherboard) a single large fast drive (like a G.skill titan 128GB) or buy a 3rd sammy, raid all 3 together and partition them into 2 drives (the trouble is that i have found out the hard way about raid failures). I want the performance, the reliability and the storage but i guess it's true what they say though, about not being able to have both, i hate having to make overcomplicated decisions.

 

[AtomGig]

Yes, agree with you absolutely!

Well I boot to a fully useable state in around 30 seconds on my SSD's, I believe the Vertex would startup a few seconds faster eitherway they're much much faster than my old hdd's which took a full minute longer to boot. You'll just notice apps and stuff just launch much faster ALSO..

I don't know if anybody else has this experience, but I find just navigating windows to be much more snappier.. Even navigating my old HDD's is now faster o_O. I'm not really sure how that works, maybe the SSD tweaker tool helped as well.

 

[AtomGig]

I have recently switched my hdd to SSD. My laptop just boot to a fully useable state in no time. However, mine is neither Samsung nor OCZ as I find them abit too expensive to try out.

Soliware is the brand I use now - has anyone heard of this brand?

 

[balls]

I have recently switched my hdd to SSD. My laptop just boot to a fully useable state in no time. However, mine is neither Samsung nor OCZ as I find them abit too expensive to try out.

Soliware is the brand I use now - has anyone heard of this brand?

Only through searching for SSDs, ever before that. They appeared to have some quite mixed reviews.


I have as of this morning just added my second sammy mlc drive to my dell studio laptop, not sure If I am going to keep it, as I can only really see the differences in the benchmarks.
Windows 7 boots up in 2.2s slower using one drive in comparison with the 2, but when into windows there is very little difference.
Considering switching back to my 5400 rpm drive for storage, and telling it to spin down after 1minute.

 

[mythrandyr]

I think i will go for 1 sammy for now and maybe raid later (is onboard raid controller ok or get a pci one?) i will just install vista and a few small apps and put music and games ect. on HDD.

if i were you, while i'm thinking about it, and i only tried this last night but my flash drive was too slow (i'm in the market for a faster one, but why not get something like an OCZ ATV Flash drive and install vista onto the SSD via USB? I usually hate vista but that is one the best benefits of it over XP, particularly useful in PC's that have restricted use of CD-drives or use Raid.
and then if you have any room left over you could store you're apps/music etc.. on the same drive.

 

[hedgey]

platinum hdd obliterates ocz and samsung.