I bought a 30Gb vertex as i wanted to test SSD, and i didn't want to spend too much on what is a new, constantly evolving technology. At the moment, after installing the OS and the programs i use, i have 3GB free. It's shaved my boot up time from over 1 minute, down to roughly 36 seconds, so it's a definite improvement, but i'm not that impressed with it in all honesty on the whole, and i'm glad i didn't stump up more than the £100 i paid for it. I don't play games, all i use the PC for is web surfing, downloading stuff, playing around with virtual machines, and listening to music and watching videos. I don't really sense that things are that much snappier when loading applications. I previously had 2 Samsung 1TB F1's in a raid1. Part of me thinks it's down to what i use the pc for, and that i would get more out of it if i bought a couple larger SSD drives, as then at least i would be able to feel the difference when transferring files between the two etc. Maybe i should have bought a larger SSD drive in the first place rather than my 30GB vertex, as then maybe i could have put everything i needed on it, rather than installing the main things on the SSD, and the rest of my stuff on the F1's. Don't get me wrong, it's a great improvement when booting up and shutting down the PC, but surely i can't be the only person to question whether it's worth the money to shave a second or two of the time it takes to open Microsoft Word........
SSD - not that impressed
- Thread starter daztrouk
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Tweaks and setting up done:
I've done the wiper tool
updated the drive to the latest firmware
disabled indexing and hibernation
64 alignment
disabled windows prefatcher, vista superfetch, defragmenting, and system restore
also used a utility called ssdtweaker which i believe does some of the above (just to be sure)
some other stuff as well, which escapes me now.
I've been on the ocz forums, and done a lot of reading on SSD's, so if i've missed anything (which i doubt) let me know.
My system spec is:
athlon 64bit x2 4400
4GB ram
vista x64
1 32GB SSD, and 2 Samsung 1TB F1's
not the latest or greatest system, but no slouch either
my benchmark is below:
any advice welcome.
I've done the wiper tool
updated the drive to the latest firmware
disabled indexing and hibernation
64 alignment
disabled windows prefatcher, vista superfetch, defragmenting, and system restore
also used a utility called ssdtweaker which i believe does some of the above (just to be sure)
some other stuff as well, which escapes me now.
I've been on the ocz forums, and done a lot of reading on SSD's, so if i've missed anything (which i doubt) let me know.
My system spec is:
athlon 64bit x2 4400
4GB ram
vista x64
1 32GB SSD, and 2 Samsung 1TB F1's
not the latest or greatest system, but no slouch either
my benchmark is below:
any advice welcome.