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The 256GB model is extremely very poor value for money. I thought my 256GB Crucial C300 was expensive.
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How are you finding the performance of the crucial as a matter of interest?
I agree they are expensive though.
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Thats why I said above they would have been more acceptable had they been sata 3 drives at the price.
My windows + apps drive uses 70GB, my games drive uses 40GB.
On top of this add all my files etc, such as CAD models and so on which is another 20GB.
So I need a minimum of 130GB, and that is without adding anything further that is not installed atm - such as ANSYS, Siemens NX, and so on
So, realisticly I need a 200GB drive.
Do you have any evidence supporting this point of view? Specifically regarding "just as good."
Do you realistically need to put everything on the ssd?
Some data is more sensitive to access times than others. Windows and some apps on the ssd, other apps and data on a hard drive.
If I want fast app loading times then the apps need to be on SSD, same for games.
If I want CAD apps to read and save models quickly then I need those files on SSD.
Indeed. I'd personally sort this as games on a hard drive, windows and as many cad apps as will fit on the ssd, cad models on hard drive. Reasoning that I care more about cad performance than gaming performance, and that I believe the models sit in ram while I'm working on them.
In practice though I ended up putting my ssd in a laptop and tolerating longer load times on the cad computer. It's not as fun to use anymore, and I want an ssd in the desktop too, but not badly enough to have bought one yet. Probably a 60gb one in my case.
In practice though I ended up putting my ssd in a laptop and tolerating longer load times on the cad computer. It's not as fun to use anymore, and I want an ssd in the desktop too, but not badly enough to have bought one yet. Probably a 60gb one in my case.
as others have said, i want an SSD but will wait till prices are comparable to my current raptor set up. about £1/gig. i'd want a 70-80 gig one. less and not enough for windows/installs and 2-3 games. more and it's too much really and would just fill it with games i won't play for a few months.
a 74GB SSD for £74 would be ideal.
a 74GB SSD for £74 would be ideal.
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I haven't done the build yet,
I've been too busy
might wait for the 980X.I'm putting two SSD's in the rig, a 256GB crucial C300, as a main drive on SATA III and the Intel X25 as my second drive. Should be interesting results.
3 years warranty just doesn't seem enough for the price, considering they offer 5 year warranty on Raptor Hard-Drives.
If Western Digital upped the warranty they would be a more attractive buy, other companys offer just 3 years also.
If Western Digital upped the warranty they would be a more attractive buy, other companys offer just 3 years also.
Got my hopes up briefly, but your link 404's.
This one? If so Anandtech are skeptical. The drive is slower than some cheaper alternatives, and time will tell if it can deliver in terms of reliability. The likelihood of a WD black ssd is the main thing making me inclined to wait though.
This one? If so Anandtech are skeptical. The drive is slower than some cheaper alternatives, and time will tell if it can deliver in terms of reliability. The likelihood of a WD black ssd is the main thing making me inclined to wait though.
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WD are still finding their feet in the market. Unfortunately to me that means you can't make any assumptions about these drives based on the high quality of their mechanical drives (most reliable by some margin across the networks I know). Just looking at the entry 64GB drive, people with a stronger reputation for chips offer similar for less (Crucial) or better for similar (Intel), so why buy WD?
All that said I wish WD all the best in this market, good brand and hopefully more pricing competition.
All that said I wish WD all the best in this market, good brand and hopefully more pricing competition.
Correction:- WD Purchased Sillicon Systems (an SSD manufacturer) But the new Sillicon BLUE drives were designed, built and tested from scratch. Including over 250,000 hours test time at WD F.I.T labs, something that Silicon Systems and most non HDD manufacturers don't have. This is one of the key benefits an HDD manufacturer has over the rest. in a F.I.T lab SSD is tested over numerous laptop models, Operating Systems, chipsets, OS/MB/Chipset combinations RAID Controllers and much more.
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really not worth that much...
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Time for a holly thread revival! Anyone got these (now not in stock at OCUK) just wondering what performance is like....interested in having one as my first PROPER (I'm looking at you Patriot ps-100) SSD.
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We can get hold of them easily but to be honest I'd take an Intel. There's a reason why everyone talks about them so much.