SSD (Solid State Drive) goodness
 

So i finally jumped on the SSD drive bandwagon for kicks. Picked up a 64 GB Kingston SSD drive for $107 from NCIX.

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?s...n&promoid=1088

popped it into my PC's SATA 1 spot

loaded Win 7 ultimate 64 bit

PC used to take almost 60 sec to boot (from power button push), from POST screen its about 25 sec.

now about 40 sec.

shut downs took about 20 sec or more, now 6 sec.

firefox start times were 6-7 sec. now 1 sec.

the nice thing is, this is only a low/middle of the road speed SSD. there are MUCH faster ones available, but $100 was my budget for testing fun.

my rig general specs.

AMD 3.0 ghz quad core
4gb ddr667 ram
Kingston 64 GB SSD now V gen II drive
Win 7 ultimate 64 bit

Overall, im very impressed. Upgrading from a 2.2 quadcore to a 3.0 quadcore didnt even yield this much speed.

Time to buy more Ram :D

Edited: because off grammar Ninja attack

I'm still thinking about doing this :)

I hear it takes gaming to a whole nother level

Agreed! I got 2 x 80GB Intel SSD's in RAID 0. It's a night and day difference especially with booting/shutdown and Photoshop.

Damn, you must load a lot of shit on startup for it to take 40 seconds from a cold boot.

In any case.. shameless plug - http://www.revscene.net/forums/fs-ki...w-t622764.html

The only thing weak about this drive is its 4k and under read/writes.

I have to agree that an SSD upgrade is sooo worth it. I upgraded to one a couple months ago and I don't even regret it. Although the GB/$$ is pretty bad, the speed makes up for it.

Running Win7 64 bit, I don't really know how fast it boots up but I'm guessing around 25-30seconds from when I press power. All of the programs I have on the SSD load up lightning fast.

SSD = Solid State Drive

SSD Drive = Solid State Drive Drive

Just FYI

i got the Kingston drive to and it rocks. Well worth the money for the fast load up times.

I have this drive also. However in the faster V+ series. I shoulda bought the ocz for the same price as it's way faster.

Download Boottimer here. http://planetsoft.org/

me too. however, no TRIM in RAID. sux.


http://www.hardcoreware.net/forum/at...1&d=1264514000

as an alternative to ssd if u guys can't shell out the $$ for a bigger drive. a hybrid SSD in raid performs almost as well as 1 ssd but you get bigger capacity. i built one for my friend recently and compared to my intel ssd the difference ain't enough to justify the price gap

Is that a crt monitor?

The latest Intel RST 9.6 allows TRIM commands to be passed even in RAID 0/1. (It's been out since March I believe)

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...rim-for-raid/1

I think that's a 2nd generation LCD. I like the color contrast on those models.

no, its an lcd, on my comp repair bench/station.

for Intel boards.

agreed. i just didnt wanna blow a big wad on something i wasnt sure about. the next SSD i get will be uber fast.

Why do people RAID SSD's?

I have 2 Intel 80GB's also and I installed Win7 on one and apps I want performance from on the other (like games).

From a benchmark point of view, RAID 0 would be faster but I don't think this is even noticeable when actually running programs (I sure didn't notice it on my machine).

Plus I don't have to worry about a single drive problem bringing my entire system down.

It's mostly to improve write performance. SSD's can read very quickly, but when it comes to writes, most SSD's barely match that of a mechanical drive. I guess it could be debatable as to whether one notices it.

Most folks who RAID0 SSD's will only install the OS and program files on the SSD's and have a larger mechanical disk for everything else. Having an SSD go down wouldn't be such a disaster as you could reinstall everything without losing any data that's unrecoverable. (assuming you store your documents, etc on a separate disk which is what I usually do so I can do quick reinstalls without losing anything)

Actually a lot of current ssd's write much faster than any mechanical drive can.

and more: