I know about that frequent pausing problem that most SSD drives suffer from. If you read this article it'll explain it in length http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403
In a nutshell, any SSD drive that uses MLC flash, and a JMicron controller will suffer from intermittent pausing. AFAIK, only the Intel SSD drives don't pause. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cale Dunlap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of Half-Life Programming" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Anyone using an SSD Drive for compiling? > > I use a SSD in my laptop for work when I write code. I don't notice much > of > a difference when coding, but booting is definitely faster. However I've > had > some issues with it, not sure if it is just the laptop in general or the > SSD. Sometimes the system will hang up periodically, like it is waiting on > disk for a long period of time (by long I mean a few seconds, not like > minutes or anything). Once those momentary losses in performance clear up, > everything is pretty quick again. They just happen more frequently than I > would like... and sometimes it does that shortly before blue-screening. > Like > I said though, not sure if its the drive or the laptop (Hell Splatitude > D830). > > I'm not convinced on the quality/reliability of the drives though, yes > they > can be fast, but like Haza said, they're built on cheaper parts. I'm > almost > inclined to say that using the ol' whirling disks-o-fury is a safer bet > than > a SSD. > > Just my $0.02, or 28.7769784 KRW =D > > Cale > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Haza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> USB keys are not the same as a SSD drive. >> >> The NAND flash in them is usually cheap poor quality, and slow(Like worse >> than a HDD + the speed limitations of the USB bus). >> >> Your best way to a cheap solution, would be to get a Compact Flash card >> and >> a CF to IDE adapter. >> >> Have a look here for any information about card speeds. >> >> http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/ >> http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/cs_udmacf.html >> >> Also USB drives for comparison: >> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/data-transfer-run,1037-10.html >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jed >> Sent: Monday, 8 December 2008 9:34 AM >> To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming >> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Anyone using an SSD Drive for compiling? >> >> Does running the compiler and storing the code on a 8Gb USB stick >> count as an SSD drive? :D >> >> - Jed >> >> 2008/12/8 Andrew Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I'd imagine you might see some improvements with intelisense if you're >> using >> > Visual Studio, and probably a bit of an improvement on the compiling >> > when >> > it's creating and reading the obj files, but have no hard evidence. >> > >> > You may have the honour of being the first one to actually put it to >> > the >> > test. >> > >> > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Matt Hoffman >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> > >> >> I don't see how a SSD Drive would improve compile times at all. Most >> >> of >> the >> >> compile times is just crunching numbers, not read/write. Cannot remark >> on >> >> the coding aspect though. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Minh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hope this isn't too off topic but I'm considering purchasing an >> Intel >> >> > X25-M SSD drive in hopes of improving my compile times and general >> coding >> >> > experience (I do a lot of stop/edit debugging and constant searching >> in >> >> > files). >> >> > Does anyone have any experience using SSD drives? Is it noticably >> >> faster >> >> > when compiling your binaries? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> >> > archives, >> >> > please visit: >> >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> >> please visit: >> >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
