whos got a solid state drive

would depend on what your doing, they would be extremely fast at booting up an OS, extremely fast at loading several small things, when playing a game for example, slower for file transfers, installing anything, writing and reading, to overcome these problems you would need to buy two and then raid 0 them
 
theres no way i could aford that either but you know how tech drops in price these days . the capacity would have to get higher though

cheers
 
I've got a pair in RAID 0 and they're awesome, not particularly fast sustained read/write speeds, but silence and near enough 0 access time more than make up for it.

Jokester
 
They're supposed to run a lot cooler/be easier to run cooler than conventional hard drives. I'd be interested in a year or two (having had mechanical failure hit me 3 times in the past) but for an OS setup they'd need to be cheaper.

Don't those laptops (the cheap/value) ones here in laptop section have flash drives?
 
Jokester said:
I've got a pair in RAID 0 and they're awesome, not particularly fast sustained read/write speeds, but silence and near enough 0 access time more than make up for it.

Jokester
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would you mind telling what make of SSdrives you have and how you raided them?:)
 
hi thanks, this is the only way to raid ssd's cause the other samsung drives that need the IDE convertor 2.5 to 3.5 won't raid, well not for me, so the OP knows this that your better going for the sata connection SSD for a raid setup.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-043-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

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Jokester said:
I've got a pair in RAID 0 and they're awesome, not particularly fast sustained read/write speeds, but silence and near enough 0 access time more than make up for it.
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It says on that link "Sustained high-speed data transfers"...

Also, do you worry about hitting the write limit? Do you stick temp files on a non SSHD or not?
 
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It says on that link "Sustained high-speed data transfers"...

Also, do you worry about hitting the write limit? Do you stick temp files on a non SSHD or not?
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Well, techincally it is sustained becuase transfer rates don't decrease like normal disks the closer you get to the centre of the disk.

Write limit? This is different technology to flash drives where you had typically a mean of 100,000 writes before it would fail. These drives have similar MTTFs as normal hard disks.

As it is, I have bulk storage on a server elsewhere to give me the capacity I need for backups, and then all my installation files etc on the SSDs.

Jokester
 
The Mtron 16GB Pro SSD became the fastest SATA drive in the world in read operations and general usage, as compared to the WD Raptor 150. The drive actually produced a staggering 111 MB/s sustained read, and .1ms access time. Read Performance in real world scenarios was boosted in incredible multiples compared to the Raptor, while NAND Flash based sustained write and short write operations still suffered up to 23% over the WD Raptor 150 and was the only article negative. Mtron highly recommends using the NVIDIA 680i chipset or a pure hardware Raid controller for max performance using the drive. There is an apparent Intel ICH9R throttling issue and sustained transfer of the drive is capped at 81 MB/s when using Intel motherboards. Current pricing on the Mtron Pro line is still stuck at $50 per gigabyte or $799 per drive. Ouch!-

Nice drive if your a millionaire :D Here the HD Tach for 2 in raid 0

The whole review is here, quite interesting

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5 Drives in raid 0, on a better raid controller

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Again the whole review is here, quite interesting
 
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Write limit? This is different technology to flash drives where you had typically a mean of 100,000 writes before it would fail. These drives have similar MTTFs as normal hard disks.
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Seriously?

Cool.

*waits for price to drop to something approaching "normal" levels...*
 
its a seriously attractive tech and would address one of the largest bottlenecks of the pc . how long jokester does your pc take to start up

cheers
 
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how long jokester does your pc take to start up

cheers
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Once the raid controller has detected the drives (takes about 2 mins on a cold boot :confused:) it boots pretty quick, maybe 2-3 swipes of the bar in Vista.

Strangely, on a warm boot the raid controller posts within about 5-10s.

Jokester
 
I've just installed mine, a single 32GB Samsung on PATA...XP booted in one loading bar swipe (well, 1 square short of a full swipe ;)) and Vista in about 2.75 IIRC. Definitely makes everything a bit nippier than before, but there's no denying I've only installed the OS and it's already out of space...so gaming performance can't be commented on.

I wanted RAID, but it seems PATA RAID in Vista is difficult (without changing mobos at least). I'm happy with this until SATA SDD of a decent size arrives.

edit: either I was delusional or the updates have slowed my boot, it's now more like 10 swipes in Vista :o
 
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