SSD Experience

[Greengiant71]

Hi all,

I am looking into investing in a SSD but being as it is right the damn things are expensive. What's youe experience with SSD's if any? How reliable are they? What good are they for ? What size is good to invest in?

[Ragingclue]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-price-ssd,3070.html

Update your firmware before installing your OS and you should be good.

Ive got the 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 and it seems to be doing really well, but I've only had it for a few days so far. I wish I would have gone with the 240 now. OS and BF3 alone somehow leave me with only 42GB left. I'll probably just end up getting another separate 120.

I hate load times more than anything else. SSD cuts loading time down so much....

[smoke]

moving this to the correct forum,
expiring redirect engage! ;)

[smoke]

SSD's not to be confused with STD's - Are extremely reliable, with an average life term of more then 30+ years, they don't require any disk maintenance, are MUCH faster then their mechanical brethren.

A SSD will enable large games which read/write large amounts of game data (graphics, QTEs etc.) - much faster then spindle drives.
Here is a decent comparison on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Comparison_of_SSD_with_hard_disk_drives


www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB_QPibKIt8


I would say for Windows 7 64bit, I wouldn't do anything smaller then 120GB. What a few people I know have done, is install the OS on their SSD, then get a couple 10K Drives for their games, in a striped config, to maximize speed.



Hi all,

I am looking into investing in a SSD but being as it is right the damn things are expensive. What's youe experience with SSD's if any? How reliable are they? What good are they for ? What size is good to invest in?

[iamthesgt]

I would say for Windows 7 64bit, I wouldn't do anything smaller then 120GB. What a few people I know have done, is install the OS on their SSD, then get a couple 10K Drives for their games, in a striped config, to maximize speed.

Yeah, running the games off of 10K Drives is much more economical than getting a huge SSD - and for the games at least, you don't notice a huge difference in speed between an SSD and a 10K HDD.

[Ragingclue]

Yeah, running the games off of 10K Drives is much more economical than getting a huge SSD - and for the games at least, you don't notice a huge difference in speed between an SSD and a 10K HDD.

Well, I've noticed a huge difference in load times. Gameplay I'm not sure because I'm not sure what hiccups were attributable to IO throughput, but for me at least the serious load time reduction was well worth it.

But then again I also don't personally think a 10k drive is worth the premium over a good 7200 with a decent size cache. It's all subjective.

[smoke]

What it really comes down to is budget..
How much can you afford to pay to get the performance you expect.
I can build you the biggest-bad-ass-tom-foolery-gaming-PC-your-eyes-have-ever-gazed-upon, but you had better have a mountain of cash to afford the sticker. :redface:


Well, I've noticed a huge difference in load times. Gameplay I'm not sure because I'm not sure what hiccups were attributable to IO throughput, but for me at least the serious load time reduction was well worth it.

But then again I also don't personally think a 10k drive is worth the premium over a good 7200 with a decent size cache. It's all subjective.