Anyone use solid-state drive instead of hard disk drive? - Page 2 - RC-Monster Forums

reno911 · 01:52 PM

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Now that was how it was done!

I wish I remember the string for Doom!

bdebde · 05.27.2010, 03:08 PM

I have a Corsair P128 in my desktop machine for system drive, and a 640 GB HD for my stuff. Windows 7 boots super fast, programs open instantly. Been running it for nearly 6 months with no drop in performance, drive supports trim with win7.

reno911 · 05.27.2010, 04:56 PM

I can see these taking over as soon as they have the same storage capacity as HDD.

lucias · 05.27.2010, 06:12 PM

I am running 2 X25 40GB in a Raid 0 in my home PC.. They do write a lot faster depending on what you are doing and of course no noise. It was cool from the black loading screen in windows 7 to be able to click on the start button took 11 minutes to install and be able to start loading drivers..

lucias · 05.27.2010, 06:13 PM

Here is a good review..

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3618/i...25m-g2-for-250

simplechamp · 05.27.2010, 06:32 PM

I think for my home machine I still prefer a series of regular HDDs in a RAID configuration, mostly because of the cost (for an HDD it's about 10-20 cents per GB, the SSD I just got was $2.66 per GB) and bigger size. But for my netbook where I am carrying it around a lot and it's more likely to get bumped or dropped, the SSD makes more sense. I don't need the big 1TB size drive in the netbook since I mostly use it for email and web browsing. The SSD also uses less power, but not sure if or how much it will affect overall battery life.

lucias · 05.27.2010, 06:38 PM

I bought them to play with them, I still have terabyte's of data drives. I actually just setup my new file server and my Newzbin sites are getting shutdown for the moment..

Your laptop should see a vast improvement in performance and battery life from what I have read. I don't use my except for on the couch or I would think about buying one for mine..

simplechamp · 05.27.2010, 06:44 PM

I remember one time when I was moving, I packed up all my computer stuff together, including my surround sound system (big subwoofer) and without even thinking about it set one of my big external HDDs right on top of it. Kissed about 750GB of music, movies, and tv shows goodbye that day...

rawfuls · 05.27.2010, 09:00 PM

Honestly, I think SSD will be taking over... soon.

Their write/read limit is a bit too.....little to me.
If it follows as flash drives do, I'll definitely pass 'til the technology advances a bit.

My previous flash drives last me a few good years (Reputable ones, like Sandisk?), and then all of a sudden, wabam, everything's gone, isn't even recognized.
Had this happen to friends, and multiple times for me.

A regular HDD is fine for me as long as I'm not bouncing around in the dunes.

What's_nitro? · 05.27.2010, 09:06 PM

Too expensive for me ATM... Like most of you guys I'll be waiting a year or two for the price to go down and storage capacity/lifetime to go up!

rawfuls · 05.28.2010, 12:07 AM

Also, another con for me, is when these SSDs fail, there's nothing bringing them back, unless you're a pro at micro (and I mean MICRO) soldering, and can toss the flash chip on another board... Even then, that's gonna be tough..

squeeforever · 05.28.2010, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by rawfuls

Also, another con for me, is when these SSDs fail, there's nothing bringing them back, unless you're a pro at micro (and I mean MICRO) soldering, and can toss the flash chip on another board... Even then, that's gonna be tough..

Honestly, soldering small stuff like that is pretty damn easy. The smallest thing I can even think of as far as soldering goes is SMDs. SMD resistors and SMD LEDs are pretty easy to solder if you just have a little patience. As for size, a SMD LED or resistor is about the size of the E in Liberty on a dime...

I've had a good bit of practice though on my PSP.

rawfuls · 05.28.2010, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by squeeforever

Honestly, soldering small stuff like that is pretty damn easy. The smallest thing I can even think of as far as soldering goes is SMDs. SMD resistors and SMD LEDs are pretty easy to solder if you just have a little patience. As for size, a SMD LED or resistor is about the size of the E in Liberty on a dime...

I've had a good bit of practice though on my PSP.

Then you, squee, have WAY too much time on your hands..

snellemin · 05.28.2010, 03:05 AM

I've used SSD drive in my laptops for a while now. Sure makes an average laptop faster. But I still don't like it's performance in a desktop. Writing large amount of data is just too slow compared to a good ol' 10k drive.

shaunjohnson · 05.28.2010, 07:37 AM

i run a pc that cost me a grand total of $20
i bought a pentium 4 3.4ghz 775 socket off ebay for $20.
the rest is all stuff that people threw out, 160gb HDD sata II, 40gb IDE for windows only so if it crashes i just throw it out and put in the spare 40gb with a fresh windows on it.
2gb of ram (corsair?)
and a gigabyte S-series MB.

but i wont be getting a SSD anytime in the near future niether will i be getting one of them STUPID external HDD's. wow...1 terrabyte of space, what it will like take ALL day to fill it assuming you have that much porn....harold