• help me blow 200 bucks on SSD's!
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For some reason a faster boot time compared with the drop in hard drive space just doesn't seem worth it
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;23241406]I leave mine on because linux is decently stable [editline]01:04AM[/editline] imo save up a bit and get two of those hybrid drives that Seagate makes and raid those bitches.[/QUOTE] i run 24/7 with WinXP on a dell prebuilt..dimension 4700 w/ dedi video card (8600gt :s)
[QUOTE=cdlink14;23240017]Save up and buy that, trust me, better to wait longer and get high quality hardware, than to spend up on slow/crappy stuff.[/QUOTE] it is for my laptop soooooo, it doesn't need to be but so fast [editline]09:32PM[/editline] [QUOTE=InsanePyro;23241483]For some reason a faster boot time compared with the drop in hard drive space just doesn't seem worth it[/QUOTE] it isn't boot times only, it is anything that requires read/write speeds
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;23214508]Question, is an SSD really that much of a performance booster as they're made out to be?[/QUOTE] You can rip a DVD of 700 mb in less than 2 seconds, you can open all of microsoft office in 0.5 second, you can delete 6 gigabyte of files in less than a second. Yes, trust me, it's a massive performance boost.
[QUOTE=Armyis1337;23241640]i run 24/7 with WinXP on a dell prebuilt..dimension 4700 w/ dedi video card (8600gt :s)[/QUOTE] I restart X11 every once in a while, at one point my uptime hit a year and a half with no stability issues at all.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;23242230]I restart X11 every once in a while, at one point my uptime hit a year and a half with no stability issues at all.[/QUOTE] Heh, my highest uptime was only around a few months. Not bad considering, eh? Mostly because I had to install an update or new program or something though.
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148357&cm_re=realssd_c300-_-20-148-357-_-Product[/url] I have this and highly recommend it - one of the cheapest and fastest (in terms of reading) SSDs you can buy atm, plus it takes advantage of SATA 6GB/s.
[QUOTE=Justice;23243108]haha oh god that's the computer I had 6 years ago and an X1300 XGE holy shit it was the pits[/QUOTE] ass pits for sure
[QUOTE=yngndrw;23240219]A single 80GB Intel X25-M G2 is my suggestion. I have a pair personally and they do their job great. (Would have gotten a single 160GB though if I could, but they were limited supply at the time.)[/QUOTE] A Sandforce based SSD is better, like a Vertex 2, Agility 2, Force, or similar. [editline]10:33AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Darkimmortal;23243109][url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148357&cm_re=realssd_c300-_-20-148-357-_-Product[/url] I have this and highly recommend it - one of the cheapest and fastest (in terms of reading) SSDs you can buy atm, plus it takes advantage of SATA 6GB/s.[/QUOTE] This is a good one OP. (im getting the 256GB version for my next build)
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;23214508]Question, is an SSD really that much of a performance booster as they're made out to be?[/QUOTE] Power button to steam fully loaded in about 40 seconds on my C300. And that's after loading on all the crap I use. Plus I have my temp folders symlinked to my F3 to reduce writes on the SSD, so I could probably improve it further if I undid that.
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;23214508]Question, is an SSD really that much of a performance booster as they're made out to be?[/QUOTE] Yes I have 4 of them in 256Gb, I have one in use and the others are still in their boxs.
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;23248272]Power button to steam fully loaded in about 40 seconds on my C300. And that's after loading on all the crap I use. Plus I have my temp folders symlinked to my F3 to reduce writes on the SSD, so I could probably improve it further if I undid that.[/QUOTE] that's slow
[QUOTE=Veers;23219788]I turn mine off at night because it gets very warm if I leave it on.[/QUOTE] And you can't update.
[QUOTE=Milky;23248169]A Sandforce based SSD is better, like a Vertex 2, Agility 2, Force, or similar.[/QUOTE] Random write is faster, but random read is slower. Depends upon what you want.
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