 Defiance82Computer ElitePremium
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Burlington, WI
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| Upgraded :) Yesterday I decided to upgrade my PC! I picked up a 80GB SSD, 1 TB Software/Game drive, and a nVidia GTX470 video card. All and all these upgrades are very nice!
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 The FlashYou don't win friends with saladPremium
join:2002-10-17
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | cool story bro!
haha, congrats on the upgrades, SSD should make a world of a difference. |
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westside | which ssd did you get and was it night and day for performance?
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 TychicusChildren are our most precious resourcePremium
join:2002-01-18
Helena, MT | reply to Defiance82
I recently bought a corsair SSD and my old Q6600 boots up in under 45 seconds where with my old HD it took nearly 3 minutes.
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 ArchivisYour DaddyPremium
join:2001-11-26
Earth
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| I thought boot times would have been faster than 45 seconds. Hell, my current PC boots up in less than that on a SATA drive.
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MargolisPremium
join:2003-11-24
Saint Louis, MO | said by Archivis:I thought boot times would have been faster than 45 seconds. Hell, my current PC boots up in less than that on a SATA drive. considering it took 3 minutes which is way too long for a hd there has to be another problem.
My core 2 duo boots an old well used and bloated vista 64 from a hd in 45 seconds. My i7 boots win 7 from an intel ssd in 15 seconds. |
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 ztmikeMark for moderationPremium
join:2001-08-02
Michigan City, IN
1 edit | said by Margolis:said by Archivis:I thought boot times would have been faster than 45 seconds. Hell, my current PC boots up in less than that on a SATA drive. considering it took 3 minutes which is way too long for a hd there has to be another problem. My core 2 duo boots an old well used and bloated vista 64 from a hd in 45 seconds. My i7 boots win 7 from an intel ssd in 15 seconds. That might be worth the price of ssd ....If I turned my computer off. The speed I could care less as its fast enough for what I do and the boot times are also worthless as I keep my computer on and logged into the only account...mine.
>>SSDs are overrated, and overpriced.
But you guys go ahead and buy'em up! I need those prices to come down before I jump ship. |
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westside | im waiting too for the prices to come down but my system is pretty good so far it can boot within 25secs. I dont have alot of programs installed on this system. So whats the verdict on win 7 if i did get the ssd ill prolly upgrade to win 7.
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 RyanPremium
join:2001-03-03
Quincy, MA | reply to ztmike
said by ztmike:said by Margolis:said by Archivis:I thought boot times would have been faster than 45 seconds. Hell, my current PC boots up in less than that on a SATA drive. considering it took 3 minutes which is way too long for a hd there has to be another problem. My core 2 duo boots an old well used and bloated vista 64 from a hd in 45 seconds. My i7 boots win 7 from an intel ssd in 15 seconds. That might be worth the price of ssd ....If I turned my computer off. The speed I could care less as its fast enough for what I do and the boot times are also worthless as I keep my computer on and logged into the only account...mine. >>SSDs are overrated, and overpriced. But you guys go ahead and buy'em up! I need those prices to come down before I jump ship. Overrated? Seriously?? You realize the hard drive is the biggest bottleneck of a computer right? |
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ztmikeMark for moderationPremium
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Michigan City, IN | said by Ryan:Overrated? Seriously?? You realize the hard drive is the biggest bottleneck of a computer right? Yes, but if you read what I said the speed is fine for what I do and currently the price point per GB is not worth the extra seconds in improvement.
Once the price comes down to current harddrive levels then yea. |
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 Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | reply to Defiance82
i gotta agree with ZT in two years I think the prices should fall to decent levels. |
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 MrPremium
join:2002-12-25 | reply to Defiance82
SSD will only let your OS, assuming you install your OS on the drive, boot faster. And will allow applications to slightly load and run faster, i think its majorly overrated. And I think people really need to look at the benchmark scores. The price is clearly not worth the performance benefits. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Defiance82
SSDs are a big help for games too. but the typical user wont see any gains. if someone is only loading up MS word and the like.
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Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | reply to Defiance82
I think when SSD really go lower in price like $160 for 80GB or 100 then we can think about installing games on it.. but if games still load as they do it seems pointless :-/ |
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 Vamp9190Premium
join:2002-02-11
Chantilly, VA
kudos:1 | reply to Mr
said by Mr:SSD will only let your OS, assuming you install your OS on the drive, boot faster. And will allow applications to slightly load and run faster, i think its majorly overrated. And I think people really need to look at the benchmark scores. The price is clearly not worth the performance benefits. Keep in mind that it is not just benchmarks and faster speed. SSDs have no platters and moving parts, and will fail much less often. So a lot of people buy them for reliability.
For example, I just had a 150GB Raptor 10k drive fail, and a 1TB 7200 Samsung fail....will see if they will RMA for me. |
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Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | reply to Defiance82
I've seen flaky flash to be really safe it would be better to RAID the flash. |
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ArchivisYour DaddyPremium
join:2001-11-26
Earth
kudos:17 | I want to set up a Raid5 for like half a dozen SSD's and see what happens. |
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Defiance82Computer ElitePremium
join:2002-09-11
Burlington, WI Reviews:
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I installed 2 games on the SSD. They load very fast actually. Windows load times are super fast. I can actually reboot and be back into windows in seconds.
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 OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Defiance82
I had some of the same concerns with SSDs as has been expressed here. However, when I actually bought an SSD and used it on my own hardware I was quite pleased with it. Very pleased indeed and in fact I was sorry I had put buying an SSD off.
As for price per gig, I can recall buying an 8GB Maxtor HDD for about ~$100+ as one of my first upgrades a long time ago. I probably averaged about ~$100 for individual HDD purchases through the years and buying a 64GB SSD at about ~$120 or so isn’t drastically outside that price point. The difference here being that with HDD one purchases storage gains with modest speed increases as time goes on and with SSD one purchases speed gains with modest storage increases as time goes on. Or at least that's how I see it.
In any event I’m glad I stopped making excuses. As with HDD I don’t expect to buy one SSD and be set for life so I know I’ll be buying many of them over the years. Right now I have 4x SSD drives and I would prefer not to have to run a system without one.
As for price drops I have heard that once Intel’s newest SSD generation hits that one of their 80GB SSD models will hit the price point of the current 40GB model. I think the 160GB will hit current 80GB prices or so I have heard. |
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Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | reply to Defiance82
The problem for me is I would want to install my games on the SSD. |
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