i have a velociraptor but i wonder how fast a solid state drive would make things

should i get a 128GB for $300?

10/7/2008 6:23:18 PM

no, definitely not. Especially not at that price point yet.
The speed advantages on benchmarks by the Macbook Air and the Lenovo X300 are not nearly what you might think they should be.

10/7/2008 6:27:03 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-SlickDeals&cm_mmc=AFC-SlickDeals-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16820227344

64gb $100 and faster than just about anyone else's SSD.

10/7/2008 8:49:33 PM

i'd wait unless you wanted it for the oooh aaahh factor.

10/7/2008 9:59:40 PM

meh, for ^^ you really aren't spending all that much

10/7/2008 10:00:08 PM

My SATAII RAID array has a ~500MB/s sustained read (between 100 and 200MB/s on each drive).

SATAII traditional hard dives are just as fast and a lot cheaper. The only really good thing about the SSD is the seek time.

10/7/2008 10:05:16 PM

Quote :

"http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-SlickDeals&cm_mmc=AFC-SlickDeals-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16820227344 64gb $100 and faster than just about anyone else's SSD."

Read the reviews....
The OCZ Core series and the rest of the cheaper SSDs use the shitty JMicron controllers that will leave your data corrupt and give you half of the rated read and write speeds. The good SSDs are the ones that are expensive that have the Samsung or Intel Controller.

Here is a good comparison of the three SSD drives, a 300GB VelociRaptor, and a Seagate 160GB HDD.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=8

[Edited on October 8, 2008 at 12:13 AM. Reason : :]

10/8/2008 12:12:09 AM

oh damn velociraptor is good enough for me then

/thread

[Edited on October 8, 2008 at 12:18 AM. Reason : .]

10/8/2008 12:18:15 AM

^^^MB/sec or Mb/sec?

10/9/2008 4:56:35 PM

he obviously means MB, 12.5-25 MB/s on each drive would suck horrible amounts of cock.

10/9/2008 5:42:13 PM

my company just bought a bunch of http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-20.htm for our database servers. over 100,000 IOPS and only 15 watts. CRAZY!

11/5/2009 11:11:53 AM

niice

11/5/2009 12:06:30 PM

Quote :

"he obviously means MB, 12.5-25 MB/s on each drive would suck horrible amounts of cock. "

wat? lol

11/5/2009 12:06:57 PM

if you want to make the jump, the OCZ Vertex Turbo is probably one of the best drives out there, but runs close to $6/GB, or if you can afford it, any of the new 34/32nm SSD's out there... they are cheaper at around $3/GB but the smallest drives are 80GB
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10010797

here's a Pliant SSD for enterprise:
http://www.dailytech.com/Startup+Drops+Bombshell+Lightning+SSD+With+180k+IOPS+500320+MBs+ReadWrites/article16249.htm
title says it all

[Edited on November 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM. Reason : /]

11/5/2009 12:22:45 PM

solid state drives have really fast load times but the write times are slow as fuck.

11/5/2009 12:30:52 PM

Quote :

"cheap solid state drives have really fast load times but the write times are slow as fuck."

fixed that for ya

ocz vertex turbo's have 145MB write (100MB/s sustained) and even the newer cheaper 32nm SSD's have 70MB write which is equivalent to most 7,200rpm HDD's on the market right now.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667

[Edited on November 5, 2009 at 12:55 PM. Reason : url]

11/5/2009 12:47:16 PM

I trust the advice of Anand from Anandtech:

Quote :

"... I still believe it's the single best upgrade you can do to your machine today."

11/5/2009 1:11:49 PM

storage has long been the bottleneck in computers

11/5/2009 1:26:00 PM

i'm having a hard time figuring out which ones will fit in my dell mini9. can anybody halp? i'd like to maybe ask for a 32 or 64 gb one for xmas, depending on cost.

11/5/2009 1:45:42 PM

i would think all consumer SSDs would be 2.5"

11/5/2009 2:02:42 PM

that may be the case, i just have no idea. the handy dandy netbook upgrade center at crucial doesn't show me hard drives.

11/5/2009 2:13:26 PM

I just ordered a Lenovo W700 with dual 64 gig solid state drives. Looking forward to seeing their performance.

11/5/2009 2:25:25 PM

I've been running to OCZ SSD's in raid 0 for about 6 months now. I can't recommend it enough.

11/5/2009 3:48:23 PM

I read some article somewhere about 6 months ago where some guy took a bunch of USB jump/flash drives that were like 4 gigs a piece, and he combined them into some "virtual solid-state array"...sounded pretty neat...SSD performance but cheaper

11/5/2009 4:54:22 PM

I'm getting ready to put in a 256GB SSD in my new MacBook Pro tonight. Looking forward to see how it performs.

11/5/2009 6:36:47 PM

^ if it's a quality drive, i suspect it cost almost as much as your laptop

if it's one of the crap drives, i don't see the point, personally

11/6/2009 8:18:29 AM

It was a leftover from a project at work so I'm not the one out $750

11/6/2009 8:56:16 AM

plz to steal me one too?

11/6/2009 9:17:22 AM

plz to steal me one too?

11/6/2009 9:48:29 AM

Quote :

"i would think all consumer SSDs would be 2.5""

i opened up the mini9 this morning and the drive is maybe 2.5" long, no more than 1.5" wide. the SATA 2.5" drives look nothing like what's in my computer, and the mini PCIe drives are way too big, although they look similar. i'm not sure where to go from here.

looks like this


i don't know why i'm having such a hard time finding one. my brain has shut down.


oh oh oh!!! is this it? i now see it says it is for the dell mini 9 http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=FEM32GHDL&src=FR&pid=52d240942bab44759e955ff0ab51ded040e66d11108322c12f0b6c48a1ca1986

[Edited on November 6, 2009 at 9:51 AM. Reason : ]

[Edited on November 6, 2009 at 10:17 AM. Reason : ]

11/6/2009 9:49:00 AM

damn, how much does it hold? regardless, it still blows my mind what they can fit on chips that small

11/6/2009 12:36:05 PM

inorite. that TMS card i mentioned earlier puts 450 GB flash on a PCI-e card

11/6/2009 12:41:16 PM

If you are going to get one, get an Intel X-25M, the new G2 series. The price hovers around ~$250 for the 80GB model, but its fast and reliable.

11/6/2009 1:22:22 PM

oh, silly dell...why conform when you can make it more difficult?

11/6/2009 1:30:47 PM

Quote :

"plz to steal me one too? "

i wish i could, but we bought 5 of them to test out something for a project. turns out we didn't need them, we couldn't return them. They got snatched up pretty quick

I did a TimeMachine restore to copy the OS from my old HDD to the new SSD, worked great, and is incredibly fast. I didn't expect to see this much boost in speed. SnowLeopard boots up in less than 10 seconds after the white Apple screen.

11/7/2009 10:54:20 AM

2010 bump

solid state prices going to come down any this year?

Thinking about getting one.

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 10:04 AM. Reason : s]

1/13/2010 10:04:33 AM

i would guess that yes, solid state drive prices will come down this year

1/13/2010 10:11:22 AM

SSD prices will probably start to come down so that they can become attractive for datacenters. I'd actually recommend one for high-end laptops.

1/13/2010 10:47:35 AM

I've been wanting to get a SSD for my macbook pro for some time but haven't yet because of price and capacity. One question though...what will that do to battery life on a notebook?

1/13/2010 10:52:58 AM

I thought bat life was better but I'm not sure

1/13/2010 10:54:42 AM

thats what I was thinking but wasn't sure either...figured power consumption was a lot less.

1/13/2010 11:13:08 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

THREAD OVER

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 11:21 AM. Reason : ]

1/13/2010 11:21:09 AM

Magic 8 ball says:

1/13/2010 12:00:54 PM

I had (2) 65 gig solid state drives installed in my new lenovo W700. So far, its pretty awesome. They were an expensive option, as well as the 8 gigs of RAM I had installed in this thing.

1/13/2010 1:20:31 PM

^^^ I was just thinking that

1/13/2010 2:01:38 PM