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 Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:01 am Post subject: SSD? |
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I was thinking of buying an SSD just to boot Win7 and possibly program files (not sure if it would be a big influence to the speed or performance of my computer). So I was looking on Newegg but I realized I don't know anything about SSDs. I need some advice.
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Well I saw a chart comparing a 7200 RPM HDD and an SSD before and remembered these:
-SSD has faster start up time
-HDD has faster shutdown time because the motors are already spinning
and some random info to go along with it saying:
-Defragmentation doesn't affect SSDs
-Not as noisy as the HDD
and as for the price, SSDs are like shitloads more expensive than 7200rpm HDDs. [storage capacity wise]
Not sure about the performance improvement but I've also heard that it increases the search speed of files.
Sorry for the vague information.
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SSD performance degrades over time. Look for ones that supports the TRIM command.
Single Level Cell (SLC) is better than Multi-Level Cell (MLC) but it's hell of a lot more expensive, so most of the SSD target towards consumers are MLC.
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| Clairenix wrote: | Well I saw a chart comparing a 7200 RPM HDD and an SSD before and remembered these:
-SSD has faster start up time
-HDD has faster shutdown time because the motors are already spinning
and some random info to go along with it saying:
-Defragmentation doesn't affect SSDs
-Not as noisy as the HDD
and as for the price, SSDs are like shitloads more expensive than 7200rpm HDDs. [storage capacity wise]
Not sure about the performance improvement but I've also heard that it increases the search speed of files.
Sorry for the vague information. |
No, no, I know all of that. And by the way, an SSD still shuts down faster than an HDD, it doesn't have any moving parts. I know plenty about SSDs in that sense, I just need to know stuff regarding purchasing them. I guess I should have made my first post more specific, I'm going to buy an SSD and I want you guys to help me pick out which one to get.
| kls85 wrote: | SSD performance degrades over time. Look for ones that supports the TRIM command.
Single Level Cell (SLC) is better than Multi-Level Cell (MLC) but it's hell of a lot more expensive, so most of the SSD target towards consumers are MLC. |
This is what I was looking for. And what exactly is the TRIM command?
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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SSD are nice as they are very cheap right now (OCZ had a sale yesterday 40gb w/ TRIM for $120 after $20 rebate.
REMEMBER, DON'T FUCKING DEFRAG A SSD
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| Get a samsung spinpoint f3. faster than a velociraptor. |
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| Hero1 wrote: | | Get a samsung spinpoint f3. faster than a velociraptor. |
Yeah, but an SSD is faster than both.
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| elpacco wrote: | | Hero1 wrote: | | Get a samsung spinpoint f3. faster than a velociraptor. |
Yeah, but an SSD is faster than both. |
and expensive. 1tb samsung is $85. |
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| Hero1 wrote: | | elpacco wrote: | | Hero1 wrote: | | Get a samsung spinpoint f3. faster than a velociraptor. |
Yeah, but an SSD is faster than both. |
and expensive. 1tb samsung is $85. |
All I'm going to use my SSD for is for the OS and program files, which currently (including regular and x86, discluding games which I'll probably all reinstall to a separate thing on the storage drive) is about 3GB. Then I'll probably keep another 15-20GB for other miscellaneous files I want to run quickly. So I'm only looking for about a 30GB of space.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Hero1 wrote: | | elpacco wrote: | | Hero1 wrote: | | Get a samsung spinpoint f3. faster than a velociraptor. |
Yeah, but an SSD is faster than both. |
and expensive. 1tb samsung is $85. |
Since when buying SSD care about the cost?
Is all about performance
like idiots who buy a raid 6 cardo for $600 USD and take bunches drives from work place and have it's own server |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| ssd's aren't nonsensical to buy yet unless you have way too much $$ to throw around, and then you can spend it better elsewhere |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| slovach wrote: | | ssd's aren't nonsensical to buy yet unless you have way too much $$ to throw around, and then you can spend it better elsewhere |
Yet true, but hey, is getting better.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3731
Now see if i can live to 2012. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| slovach wrote: | | ssd's aren't nonsensical to buy yet unless you have way too much $$ to throw around, and then you can spend it better elsewhere |
Yes, but I want to be able to press the power button for my computer, and be doing something in 10-15 seconds.
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| elpacco wrote: | | slovach wrote: | | ssd's aren't nonsensical to buy yet unless you have way too much $$ to throw around, and then you can spend it better elsewhere |
Yes, but I want to be able to press the power button for my computer, and be doing something in 10-15 seconds. |
Some motherboards had a instant boot feature, some ASUS/Gigabyte mobo i think |
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| elpacco wrote: | | slovach wrote: | | ssd's aren't nonsensical to buy yet unless you have way too much $$ to throw around, and then you can spend it better elsewhere |
Yes, but I want to be able to press the power button for my computer, and be doing something in 10-15 seconds. |
yea guy there's this cool new thing it's called sleep mode you should take it for a whirl some time |
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