Shit I bought OCZ few weeks back, think I should have done more research. Well it was only 90€ for 120Gb so if it lasts even a year I'm happy.
Is there a program that sits in the background, recording what my hard drive does for a while, and present me a pie chart of what programs use my hard drive the most?
[QUOTE=meppers;38906497]Is there a program that sits in the background, recording what my hard drive does for a while, and present me a pie chart of what programs use my hard drive the most?[/QUOTE]
Win+R -> resmon -> disk
I'm going to purchase a Corsair Force GT 120GB SSD for $129 AU, opinions?
[QUOTE=reevezy67;38882809]If anything a Linux distro will end up supporting it.
Edit:
Actually after some Google action it seems like it was actually made for the linux kernel, you will most likely see support for it in the future.[/QUOTE]
F2FS is in the 3.8 kernel.
[url]http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=history;f=fs/f2fs;hb=HEAD[/url]
I love my Intel 330 Series 240GB SSD.
I was initially reluctant to buy an SSD for my new PC build, but now I consider an SSD to be an integral part of a new and modern build.
Still waiting for a decent 3 terabyte hdd & blazingly fast SSD frankendrive
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38897976]no, pagefile's these days are mostly used because Windows hates not having one, and could lead to system instability for certain things (even if you aren't even close to running out of ram). Even if you do used a pagefile for media production, the chances of you getting a performance boost is small
And since pagefiles are big (often as large as your ram size) it's a waste of space on your SSD.[/QUOTE]
Erm... the system's pagefile usage typically consists of random, small reads of cached programs and files - Exactly what SSD's do best. Seems to me that the page file is where you'd get your money's worth of performance boosting? The hibernation file however...
So what do solid state drives do exactly?
Do they have better performance or something?
also Uninformed =/= Dumb
[QUOTE=Mysterious Mr.E;38934238]So what do solid state drives do exactly?
Do they have better performance or something?[/QUOTE]
The memory of an SSD consists of NAND circuits instead of a spinning disk. This makes seek-times extremely low (since you just have to access circuits instead of position an arm to read from a disk). Practically this means that an SSD is generally much faster to read and write data compared to a mechanical drive, in particular when it comes to reading from randomly scattered sectors (which a mechanical drive is really slow to do). So pretty much yes, they have better performance.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;38934523]The memory of an SSD consists of NAND circuits instead of a spinning disk. This makes seek-times extremely low (since you just have to access circuits instead of position an arm to read from a disk). Practically this means that an SSD is generally much faster to read and write data compared to a mechanical drive, in particular when it comes to reading from randomly scattered sectors (which a mechanical drive is really slow to do). So pretty much yes, they have better performance.[/QUOTE]
That sounds awesome! Ill need to get a few.
A few? They aren't meant for storage, more for boot and frequently used apps and games.
[QUOTE=Killuah;38904335]I have a really old MOBO.
Namely an Asus P5B-E
It's been 5 years or so since I built this PC so I am totally out of the tech.
Can I use an SSD?[/QUOTE]
That motherboard is SATA II according to the specs I read. Since SATA is backwards compatible, you should be fine with a SATA III drive, although you'll only get SATA II speed out of it. It'll still beat a mechanical hard drive though.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;38937734]That motherboard is SATA II according to the specs I read. Since SATA is backwards compatible, you should be fine with a SATA III drive, although you'll only get SATA II speed out of it. It'll still beat a mechanical hard drive though.[/QUOTE]
What's the bottleneck for SATA-II when it comes to read&write speeds?
Slightly interested in buying a SSD myself, but I don't wanna buy one that's grossly bottlenecked by my motherboard.
[QUOTE=Van-man;38937807]What's the bottleneck for SATA-II when it comes to read&write speeds?
Slightly interested in buying a SSD myself, but I don't wanna buy one that's grossly bottlenecked by my motherboard.[/QUOTE]
Well, you can wait until it's time to get a new computer to buy an SSD, then.
[QUOTE=Van-man;38937807]What's the bottleneck for SATA-II when it comes to read&write speeds?
Slightly interested in buying a SSD myself, but I don't wanna buy one that's grossly bottlenecked by my motherboard.[/QUOTE]
SATA II: 3 gbps = 384 MB/s in theory, 285 MB/s in practice
SATA III: 6 gbps = 768 MB/s in theory, 560 MB/s in practice
The bandwidth isn't a hindrance to small-block IOPS though, which is where the main benefit of SSDs comes from (and where the drives themselves are still the bottleneck, rather than the interface.) So no, you won't be grossly bottlenecked. If you can, I really suggest picking even a 60-64 GB one just for your OS and daily applications, the difference is night and day.
I've got SATAII and I can confirm that you'll indeed benefit from the SSD performance. Even if you're obviously missing the real top R/W speeds, you'll still benefit from the decreased random seek times in many cases when you're doing things like booting up and opening programs.
[QUOTE=Van-man;38937807]What's the bottleneck for SATA-II when it comes to read&write speeds?
Slightly interested in buying a SSD myself, but I don't wanna buy one that's grossly bottlenecked by my motherboard.[/QUOTE]
Behold, a firsthand account:
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;38890676]something is broken
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IaHs8.png[/IMG]
fixed the ahci thing, the score is still pretty low
I might have plugged it into the sata II
Yeah that's what it was nvm im dumb
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jZ3u7.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Ond kaja;38937897]Well, you can wait until it's time to get a new computer to buy an SSD, then.[/QUOTE]
It's more than good enough to me, and I don't really care about eyecandy in games.
It's slow in loading programs though.
Exactly, that's the reason I got an SSD mainly to make frequently used programs load far quicker
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