New Solid State HD. Wow!

[Eric Perry]

Here's some CrystalMark scores for the new SSD and my data HD (which is the same as the OEM HD that came in the system: a Seagate Momentus 7200rpm 200gb drive.

First, the Hard Drive...

And the SSD...

 

[NJL]

^^ Clarification.....That was a JOKE.

no it wasn't, i made you do that.

 

[jazzy grille]

SSD + Laptop = Secure data..

I no longer worry about damaging my HD from dropping my work laptop, with the SSD I can throw it around like a toy.

 

[Chunk-O-Funk]

i wish that website would tell me how to do all those things instead of just telling me the names of things that will make my pc faster.

Scroll much?


Hit next page under the list or hit the links a little further down the page. The first couple of pages are obvious stuff like add more memory. Some good advise like how to back up your registry since some of these tweaks involve modifying the registry. Blah, blah,,once you get past that you should start seeing simple instructions. Where to go and how to change things.

 

[Nappa]

Old

Anyone seen this? 24 SSDs in RAID. For computer illiterate that means in simple words the transfer speed of 24 SSDs.

Anyways in about 2 years SSDs will be a lot cheaper.

 

[Eric Perry]

Old

Anyone seen this? 24 SSDs in RAID. For computer illiterate that means in simple words the transfer speed of 24 SSDs.

Anyways in about 2 years SSDs will be a lot cheaper.

I've seen that a bunch of times. It's unrealistic (not to mention THOUSANDS of dollars just for the drives!) in a real-life setting though. I can o/c my gpu like mad if I liquid cooled my laptop. Obviously, it's unrealistic however.

 

[NJL]

they are just too expensive right now, but i have been sold on them for a while now..

they ARE the future..

 

[Blueszilla]

Anyways in about 2 years SSDs will be a lot cheaper.

I would be surprised if it isn't much sooner.

 

[santucci218]

which of the vista things specifically make it run faster? there are a lot of stupid ones in this artical...

 

[MJ5150]

they ARE the future..

Oh really? Whitney thinks the children are.

-Mike

 

[Eric Perry]

I would be surprised if it isn't much sooner.

Yeah, me too. When OCZ released the Vertex with the Indilinx controller (the first non-Intel controller to really compete on some level), I think Intel got scared.

Now, we see a lot of up and coming companies pumping these things out. The competition will breed lower prices and a way better product. IMO, it's only a matter of time until the controller is mounted on the mobo, and the drive will simply be storage media.

 

[MJ5150]

The competition will breed lower prices and a way better product.

Oh, I don't know about that. There are a million people making Jazz basses around the world, and those blasted Sadowsky's still cost more than a used Camry or Pontiac.



-Mike

 

[Yvon]

try to put 24 ssd in raid 0?

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Now, we see a lot of up and coming companies pumping these things out. The competition will breed lower prices and a way better product. IMO, it's only a matter of time until the controller is mounted on the mobo, and the drive will simply be storage media.

The other thing which is going to fuel competition is the fact that you can get more storage on a SS drive than a single (or multi) platter drive (of similar sizes). I wonder how much bigger non SS drives are going to get, doubt it will be 'much' bigger in terms of scaling.

Damn I want one of these in my computer, no risk of the whirring clicky death

 

[Blueszilla]

Yeah, me too. When OCZ released the Vertex with the Indilinx controller (the first non-Intel controller to really compete on some level), I think Intel got scared.

Now, we see a lot of up and coming companies pumping these things out. The competition will breed lower prices and a way better product. IMO, it's only a matter of time until the controller is mounted on the mobo, and the drive will simply be storage media.

The industry insiders (read: competitive mfgr's) have seen the writing on the drive, and it says SSD (other potential non-mechanical storage media is also being developed, as you likely know).

I don't see HDD's hanging around for much longer, maybe some very large scale SAN's where the $$ is impractical, but even that could be gone. Didn't MS drop their interest in Blu-Ray or something? A few key developments in addressing schemes and materials and SSD costs will go the way of all electronics. I mean, have you checked out the prices on LCD TV's, compared to just 12 months ago?

 

[NJL]

Oh really? Whitney thinks the children are.

-Mike

"SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!! SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!!!!! SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!!!!!!"

 

[vene-nemesis]

I thought that SS memory had a limited writeable life. How long are these supossed to last?

 

[katri]

I saw a vid on YouTube where he connected a load of SSDs and it was crazy fast. It was able to open every program on a PC in 18 seconds.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

I thought that SS memory had a limited writeable life. How long are these supossed to last?

All transistors have a limited life span. Though I'd hazard a guess that the life span of a SS drive is going to be significantly higher than that of a mechanical one?

 

[Eric Perry]

I thought that SS memory had a limited writeable life. How long are these supossed to last?

There's a few factors that will dictate that. The technology of the drives have changed a lot recently to try and address this, by cutting down on write cycles. Also, Win 7 is slightly better equipped to deal with a SSD than Vista, which was substantially better equipped than XP (admitted, even though I love XP). Also the type of media used affects drive life, MLC an SLC (multi-level cell and single level cell, respectively) are the two types, and it refers to how many bits of info can be stored on each cell. SLC drives promise longer lives than MLC currently.

Again, it's tough to say because, with any cutting edge *new* technology, there is SO much going on in the SSD world right now. There's changes and improvements almost weekly at this point.