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    just bought an ssd drive

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by stephen0205, Oct 17, 2009.

  1. stephen0205

    stephen0205 Notebook Consultant

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    hey guys i just bought an ssd hard drive. Just before windows 7 comes so i can have it on a snappy drive.

    i ordered it a few mins ago so it should be here this week. if anyone is interested i could do a small review, ill be updating the firmware then instaling a fresh instal of windows 7.

    and all in my gateway p6860 fx.

    the drive i bought was the crucial m225 64gb one, not huge but big enuff for me, has a 200mb read and 150mb write, and with the new firmware it should be pretty decent.

    got it for £135
     
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    Congradulations, and welcome to the SSD world of .1ms access time and preformance that makes RAID look like yesterdays news :D
     
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    stephen0205 Notebook Consultant

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    i plan on getting another one next week, another 64gb and put them in raid, im guessing the performance will awsome fast yeah ?
     
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    why didnt just get a 128GB SSD in the first place then? My set-up has a 128GB G.Skill Falcon SSD as my primary boot drive and a 320GB 7200rpm HDD for off-loading the page file etc. etc. from the SSD to prolong its lifespan.
     
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    Well the RAID 64's will destory the 128 in preformance. I use a similar set up to yours, but the 64's in raid will give about 400/300 preformance, which is almost double what i get with the single 128GB drive. All for a slight access time increase of about 0.05ms... perfectly acceptable IMO.

    As to the page file... i think we as a culture (the SSD users) have babied our drives a bit much. These things last about 1,000,000 hours or 10K write cycles (ideally the same thing, but not always) so you could fill/erase these drives for years before cell death would start occuring. I know these drives wont get the 27 years of service (with a fill and erase every day) but 7-10 years is easily believable with the current gen of controllers.
     
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    well i got the 64gb for a good price, and i couldnt afford the 128gb model, and i dont need that much storage, i have 2 320gb external drives, but yeah im looking forward to the raid 0 speeds, should be impressive
     
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