just bought two of those in 250gb flavor. Plan was raid 0 but the more I read the more I think not ready for prime time, at least with XP. two of these updated to latest FW and doing nothing with them at the moment. If I use because of the trim thing will not do raid. still plan to play though .
Merry Xmas to all fp At 11:33 AM 12/25/2010, Mini Me Poked the stick with: >Nice link and it would have saved me considerable headaches over the >years. LOL, now I don't need it probably because I'm done with Native IDE. >Interestingly, my value data isn't 0 it's 4 I assume because I'm using a >RAID 5 array. I just bought a Crucial RealSSD C300 from the Egg and I'm >going to use it for my boot drive and a 640 gig Caviar Black for backup. >I'll sell the 1 TB Seagate drives I'm currently using because the array >just isn't that fast to me. I don't need a lot of drive space on this box >and if I need more I'll just send stuff over to my media box for storage. >64 gigs should be more than enough for Vista and programs. I can't wait to >see how fast that puppy is on a SATA 6 gig connection.. > > >On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:35:39 -0600, Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Nah, not anymore. Just make a quick registry mod before you enable it. >> >>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976 >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- >>>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mini Me >>>Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 3:55 PM >>>To: [email protected] >>>Subject: Re: [H] Tom's Hardware: "SSD Performance: TRIM And Firmware >>>Updates Tested" >>> >>>Tom's is a PITA with ads popping up everytime you turn the page and if >>>you >>>enable AHCI you will probably have to reinstall Windows in my experience >>>anyway.. >>> >>> >>>On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:06:55 -0600, Anthony Q. Martin >>><[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I agree. I did learn some stuff, though. I don't think I have AHCI >>>> turned on in the bios!!!! >>>> >>>> Tom's website has become very difficult to use, IMO. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Greg Sevart wrote: >>>> >>>>> Interesting, but unfortunately, only one drive was tested. >>>>> Optimizations vary wildly among all the controller manufacturers >>>>> (Samsung, Marvell, Intel, Indilinx, SandForce, etc), so I think the >>>>> article is too limited in scope to really make generalizations about >>>>> TRIM--other than that which we already know--TRIM support is good. >>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- >>>>> >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin >>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 8:17 AM >>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>> Subject: [H] Tom's Hardware: "SSD Performance: TRIM And Firmware >>>>>> Updates Tested" >>>>>> >>>>>> I thought this would be useful to those of us who use SSDs. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-trim-firmware,2800.html >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >> > > >-- >Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >database 5732 (20101225) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com > > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- The Poles are now telling free market jokes.
