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Posted January 26, 2012
Just wondering if anyone had had any experience with SSD drives (did I just stutter there?), because I'm giving serious thought to getting one when I build a new PC in a few months time with an i7 and HD 6870.

Seeing as I am already running three conventional SATA drives and one ancient IDE drive weighing at 2TB in total, my eyes are on this bad boy here to start saving a little physical space:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004XM8HLU?ie=UTF8&tag=ssd-test-21&linkCode=as2&camp=163&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B004XM8HLU

I've read that they're considerably more reliable, but does anyone have experience of them being faster and quieter? How much so? Bearing in mind here that a comparable conventional 2TB SATA drive costs around 125 euros, I would effectively be investing 120 euros in the extra terabyte, the reliability, the speed and the quietness.

Opinions anyone?
Posted January 26, 2012
What you linked to is not an SSD. Am I missing something here?

Actual SSDs are considerably faster and there's no noise whatsoever. Don't expect them to make any difference to your games though. Save for maybe some games loading a lot faster (some games are totally unaffected though, oddly enough).
Posted January 26, 2012
Not sure I understand your post. The drive you linked is an HDD, not a SSD.

Anyway, my 2 year old i7 rig has an SSD for the OS. I find it boots fast, proggys open very fast, and I'm very pleased with it.
Posted January 26, 2012
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jamyskis: Just wondering if anyone had had any experience with SSD drives (did I just stutter there?), because I'm giving serious thought to getting one when I build a new PC in a few months time with an i7 and HD 6870.

Seeing as I am already running three conventional SATA drives and one ancient IDE drive weighing at 2TB in total, my eyes are on this bad boy here to start saving a little physical space:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004XM8HLU?ie=UTF8&tag=ssd-test-21&linkCode=as2&camp=163&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B004XM8HLU

I've read that they're considerably more reliable, but does anyone have experience of them being faster and quieter? How much so? Bearing in mind here that a comparable conventional 2TB SATA drive costs around 125 euros, I would effectively be investing 120 euros in the extra terabyte, the reliability, the speed and the quietness.

Opinions anyone?
For that money... 1TB more... nah u can just buy 2 x 2TB for that money.For me is better to have 2 HDD's just in case of bad sectors... U can go for 2 x this bad boys:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-6Gbps-Saving-Internal/dp/B004VFJ9MK/ref=sr_1_26?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1327617633&sr=1-26

and one SSD:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/OCZ-Vertex-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B0058RECO0/ref=sr_1_11?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1327617470&sr=1-11

So the point of SSD is speed.SSD is definetly quieter...and a lot faster for OS. U can go for 32GB version SSD if you use XP or 64GB for Win7.

For final: for about £300 u get 4TB HDD's and 64GB SSD ;)
Posted January 26, 2012
nitpicking :)

SSD stands for solid state disc.


so you can't say "anyone had experience with solid state disc hard discs"
Posted January 26, 2012
a ssd makes an extreme difference, i'm very happy with mine.
i used to never shutdown my pc but since i got my ssd i even turn it off if i'm only away for an hour.

and the nois, there is none. i'm always shocked, when the cd drive or hdd starts spinning. ;)

but i would be careful which one to take, when i chose mine i stumbled over many complaints of failing ssds after half a year/year. something i wanted to avoid like the plague. that's not an issue of ssds as such it just seems like there are some "bad/unreliable" products.
Posted January 26, 2012
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lukaszthegreat: nitpicking :)

SSD stands for solid state disc.
nitpicking :)

No it doesn't, it's "solid-state drive", there's no disc involved at all.
Posted January 26, 2012
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lukaszthegreat: nitpicking :)

SSD stands for solid state disc.
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Miaghstir: nitpicking :)

No it doesn't, it's "solid-state drive", there's no disc involved at all.
and of course you are right. lulz
Posted January 26, 2012
Oops...I must admit I thought that was rather cheap. I linked to the Amazon page from a site advertising a remarkably similar SSD drive. Oh well.

And has for the SSD drive...hence why I asked if I was stuttering! ;-)

I've noticed that genuine SSDs are much more expensive. I may consider waiting until the price drops somewat. I'm a bit of a space hog when it comes to hard discs.
Posted January 26, 2012
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jamyskis: I've noticed that genuine SSDs are much more expensive. I may consider waiting until the price drops somewat. I'm a bit of a space hog when it comes to hard discs.
Indeed they are, I'm considering getting them for my machines, but not until I get a sufficiently reliable networked storage going - and that's not going to happen until HDD prices drop to acceptable levels again (the Thailand floods shoved the prices way up, and I'm not going to pay twice what I paid almost a year ago).
Posted January 27, 2012
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lukaszthegreat: nitpicking :)

SSD stands for solid state disc.
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Miaghstir: nitpicking :)

No it doesn't, it's "solid-state drive", there's no disc involved at all.
Although there are hybrid HDDs, featuring a buffer solid state memory and a fast hard disk. They are usefull for programs used repeatedly, while priving better storage. In terms of transfer speed, a good HDD (samsung F1) reaches 25 mo/s, an hybrid (seagate momentus) 45 Mo/s and SSDs 100-175 Mo/s
Posted January 27, 2012
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Phc7006: Although there are hybrid HDDs, featuring a buffer solid state memory and a fast hard disk. They are usefull for programs used repeatedly, while priving better storage. In terms of transfer speed, a good HDD (samsung F1) reaches 25 mo/s, an hybrid (seagate momentus) 45 Mo/s and SSDs 100-175 Mo/s
Sure, but they are - as you said - labelled "hybrid", not "SSD".
Post edited January 27, 2012 by Miaghstir
Posted January 27, 2012
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jamyskis: I've noticed that genuine SSDs are much more expensive. I may consider waiting until the price drops somewat. I'm a bit of a space hog when it comes to hard discs.
Actually, in a desktop, the recommended setting is an SSD for the OS ans some apps and a large storage HDD. I use an 80 gb corsair ssd for the OS, a velociraptor hdd 150 Gb for apps and a couple of 1 TB western digital caviar black for storage. The only trick is to ensure some functions like browser cache are not performed from the ssd, that hdd indexing is not applied on the sdd, that trimming is on and that the document/images folder are moved to the storage disk

In a laptop, the hybrid hdd is fine. Its 500 gb are sufficient , and it is quite faster than the factory hdd
Posted January 27, 2012
I'd also recommend getting an Intel SSD as everyone I know who got one from OCZ had problems; there's a price difference, but the quality is well worth it.
Posted January 27, 2012
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AndrewC: I'd also recommend getting an Intel SSD as everyone I know who got one from OCZ had problems; there's a price difference, but the quality is well worth it.
I've got a Patriot Pyro and I haven't experienced any problems whats_)é©,Ó:,
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