SSD with windows 7

Yes - loads faster, even with RAID BIOS detection going on for a storage array.

Apps? Office, Photoshop, Pinnacle Studio... Games? Far Cry2, Fallout3, Crysis etc etc - level load times are brilliant!
 
You should read some of the other threads on this page. These drives are good, but you don't want to get too carried away...It's not going to be like running your OS from a RAM disk, but it's a nice step towards that ;)

Benchmarks will tell you one thing, but in real life it's different, and you need to see what people are saying about theirs to get an opinion and judge for yourself, or you may well be disappointed.
 
Minty-Linty said:
I want to buys a SSD drive. does it make a big difference . REALLY ?
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I wouldn't say it makes a big difference, but it does make a noticeable difference that you soon come to appreciate. For general Windows usage, things do just seem to be snappier.

Games wise, I've tried GTA, Crysis and Mass Effect, all of which stream graphics. I'd say GTA has less dips in framerate, as does Crysis, and Mass Effect no longer suffers from higher res textures loading in after a scene has started. In other words, it doesn't speed these games up, but I'd say it does stop them from slowing down.
 
FlukeRogi said:
I wouldn't say it makes a big difference, but it does make a noticeable difference that you soon come to appreciate. For general Windows usage, things do just seem to be snappier.

Games wise, I've tried GTA, Crysis and Mass Effect, all of which stream graphics. I'd say GTA has less dips in framerate, as does Crysis, and Mass Effect no longer suffers from higher res textures loading in after a scene has started. In other words, it doesn't speed these games up, but I'd say it does stop them from slowing down.
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do you have more than one drive ?
 
Minty-Linty said:
do you h ave these in a raid and are they faster than a single ssd drive ?
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Used to have 3 x 30Gb Vertex's in RAID0 along with a pair of Sammy F1's in RAID1 all off the ICH10R controller - now just got the F1's in RAID1 as I've swapped the Vertex array for a single 120Gb one - tbh the boot times are pretty much the same as my BIOS still has to detect the F1's RAID1 array, and the single 120Gb Vertex is just as fast for OS loading as the previous array of 3 x 30Gb's were.

There's no denying that the smaller SSD's raided together were damn fast for doing things like video editing as you're dealing with huge files, but other than that there's not much noticeable difference for a 'std' home user where gaming is prob the most demanding task the rig does!

And add to that Win7... well, it's just soooo much better than Vista and loads faster too. :)
 
FaceplantSi said:
Used to have 3 x 30Gb Vertex's in RAID0 along with a pair of Sammy F1's in RAID1 all off the ICH10R controller - now just got the F1's in RAID1 as I've swapped the Vertex array for a single 120Gb one - tbh the boot times are pretty much the same as my BIOS still has to detect the F1's RAID1 array, and the single 120Gb Vertex is just as fast for OS loading as the previous array of 3 x 30Gb's were.

There's no denying that the smaller SSD's raided together were damn fast for doing things like video editing as you're dealing with huge files, but other than that there's not much noticeable difference for a 'std' home user where gaming is prob the most demanding task the rig does!

And add to that Win7... well, it's just soooo much better than Vista and loads faster too. :)
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ah cheers, for the info, was going to buy 1 128 ssd, but going to get 2 64 ssd. I have used raid for years now and would not like to go back to one drive. I have space for 4 more, but until sata three comes a long its not worth doing.
 
I'll jump on board the 2 x ssd in raid bandwagon !!

Agree with all thats been said in that it does make the system snappier in that -
Photoshop elements loads in a flash !
Pinnacle 12 Ultimate has been down to loading in 2 seconds ( slowest 5 seconds )
But just for "general" use - no one will notice a difference.
I have 2 x 64gb SSD's in RAID0 and 2 HDD storage and am VERY pleased / Impressed with start up / performance times
HTH

Maxem

As you can tell - am not a "Gamer" - Sorry
 
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