Whatever ya do, make sure you get the latest model available of the drive if you can, as they're coming on leaps and bounds with the read and write performances of these things with each new controller.
For instance the original OCZ Vertex drives could do 230MB/s read & 135MB/s writes, the Vertex 2 model for the same price can do 285MB/s read & 275MB/s writes, and the Vertex 3 drive that's just been released with the latest Sandforce controller can now do up to 500MB/s read and 500MB/s writes. From: Ames Matthew B (REST) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 25 March 2011 10:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I have ordered an SSD (I was greedy and went for the 128GB - thing future proofing!) for my slightly aging machine. My plan was to install the OS + Apps onto. I would then retain my current 750GB disk for data, temp, profiles, pagefiles, etc. This I should get fast boot/app load but not kill the SSD. As I run a few VMs I figured the vmdk files could reside on the SSD, and the pagefiles for them to be pointed to a mechanical disk. ________________________________ From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 25 March 2011 09:53 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Maybe I'm wrong (I haven't played with SSD yet) but my understanding from a talk I got from Netapp engineers is that the lifetime of a SSD can be easily 3-4 years for their appliances so I assume SSDs for commercial PCs probably endure less time. If you do intensive writings on it, you can extenuate its lifetime very quick (swap files do very intensive writings on disks). I'd recommend him to buy a small SSD (maybe 20-30 Gb) and I'd put *only* the OS and maybe some software in the SSD and the rest (data + swap file) in a regular HD. SSD is probably going to get less writes than regular files and the swap file and the real gain is to run the OS and the software much quicker. Miguel --- El vie, 25/3/11, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> escribió: De: James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Asunto: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Para: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Fecha: viernes, 25 de marzo, 2011 05:40 I have a friend who is a bit of a techno-phile....he is looking to replace his PC, and was after something cool and unique (I talked him out of the idea of getting an iMac). He's also kind of set on the idea of getting a PC with solid state drives, as he thinks this would put him further along the cool wall also. I think his budget is around £1000-1500. So....can anyone a) recommend anywhere that sells PCs with SSDs, as I can't seem to find very many when browsing about, or would the SSDs generally have to be purchased separately and fitted to a PC, and b) where are the places that do the coolest, funkiest PCs? Alienware sprang to mind but I've heard a lot of conflicting stories about them, and I always thought they were generally aimed at gamers. For the record, my friend just wants his PC for web browsing, downloading, doing his accounts - nothing highly specialised. I'd also like to be able to just point him at a website where he could get something pre-built - I've got enough work to do chasing after my two two-year-olds and I'd rather not get involved in building him a system :-) As always, TIA JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." 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