I replaced the drives in my both Dell M6500 notebooks with two 512GB SSD drives. The performance difference was VERY noticeable. I didn't have any benchmarks, but the difference was worth it for me.
(Yes, they were about $1200 each) BF From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 2:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Why? I'd put as much stuff onto the SSD as you can - the performance difference between an SSD and a mechanical drive is simply unbelievable. Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 25 March 2011 9:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs And, I would make it only for the OS, moving the user profile(s) and any applications to a standard drive. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Steve Burkett <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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]<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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
