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Solid State Drives; Who has them?

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TheDarkKnight2008
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Reply #26 February 7, 2010 1:13:51 AM
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Wonder when we will see isolinear chips like in Star Trek.

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TheDarkKnight2008
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Reply #27 February 7, 2010 2:53:57 AM
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I got a 120GB SSD about 6 months ago... I put Windows 7 and my programs on it.  But I keep all my files on my 500Gb HD.

i7 920 processor OC'd to 3.2GHz.

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Reply #28 February 7, 2010 4:43:32 AM
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SSD's are nice, if you have the cash. They'll probably be standard equipment 10 years from now.

Most people do not need them, though. It is one thing to want the speed, and quite another to really need the speed.

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Reply #29 February 7, 2010 7:37:08 AM
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thanx divinewrath - i dont feel so ignorant now

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TheDarkKnight2008
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Reply #30 February 7, 2010 9:38:50 AM
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Quoting Moosetek13,
reply 28
SSD's are nice, if you have the cash. They'll probably be standard equipment 10 years from now.

Definitely. SSDs going mainstream is pretty much the death toll for hard disk drives.

Quoting Moosetek13,
reply 28
Most people do not need them, though. It is one thing to want the speed, and quite another to really need the speed.

That is very true. For most of the tasks the average user does, it doesn't really matter how fast the system is (provided you have enough RAM, of course). A RAID 0 array of 3 SSD drives does not make my web browsing experience any faster, for instance. Doesn't make me code any faster either, hehe, although at times I wish it did.

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TheDarkKnight2008
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Reply #31 February 7, 2010 1:36:07 PM
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Strange, my Intel SSD scores a bit higher than I thought it would. My over all score with a Intel Q9550 Quad core is a tad higher than the i7's I see listed.

As far as the scores go, this is the first one I've seen that everything scored evenly.

CPU: Intel Q9550 Quad @ 2.83
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Ram: G.SKILL 8GB DDR2 1000
Graphics: EVGA GTX260SC
Main Hard drive: Intel X25-V SSD
Other Hard drives:
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB internal SATA
Western Digital My Book 1TB External eSATA
Western Digital My Book 500GB External USB
Optical Drive: LG Blu-ray player - DVD burner

 

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Reply #32 February 8, 2010 9:29:58 AM
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That depends on overclocking.  My core i7 scores 7.4 on stock.

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Reply #33 February 8, 2010 5:47:54 PM
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Mine's all stock...I need to replace the CPU fan before I try to overclock.

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Reply #34 February 8, 2010 6:09:29 PM
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That depends on overclocking. My core i7 scores 7.4 on stock.

My i7 920 is 7.5

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TheDarkKnight2008
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Reply #35 February 10, 2010 10:26:18 AM
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I'll get one when the 150GB version is cheap or my Raptor 10.000RPM dies.

 

There's a new generation of SSDs coming though!

A review of an SSD with the new technology:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/3118/crucial_realssd_c300_256gb_sata_6gbps_solid_state_disk/index.html

 

 

The breakthrough:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3731

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TheDarkKnight2008
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Reply #36 February 10, 2010 10:52:14 AM
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Quoting DivineWrath,
reply 25

er.......whats a solid state drive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

Basically its a label for a device that has no moving parts. The current generation has more in common with a piece of RAM, than the more common variety of hard drives (which uses spinning magnetic disks).

They are supposed to work better, and they do cost more.

Unless you do a lot of number crunching and or graphics or are an extreme gamer. The cost for an everyday home user is not worth the money at this point in time. I could afford one just for the OS. I have enough storage already 2 1.5 TB internal HD 2 750 Gig Internal HD an external 160 gig an external 500 Gig an external 1 Tb an External 250 gig portablee and an e-sata 1 TB external plus 5 flash drives of various sizes

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Reply #37 February 10, 2010 11:18:09 AM
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Quoting Moosetek13,
reply 28
SSD's are nice, if you have the cash. They'll probably be standard equipment 10 years from now.

i don't even think it will take 2 years for them to become standart.

in 10 years we will proberbly be using the next thing, maybe even quantum hard drives (harddrives with the binary closeness of the basic atom, where 0 and 1 depends on the way the electron is turning)

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