ssd 250 evo on sale

[SilverZ06]

It will only be prohibitive for a while.  Nature of the beast.  Once the market adjusts the SATA SSD's, the PCIe based ones will start dropping into place.

Moore's Law in action

[guncrasher]

well it was a beotch to install the ssd.  windows could see it when I cloned all the data but it would crash as soon as it was made as the boot drive.  I was cloning a version of windows that was only about 2 weeks old and took me a while to figure it out but guess what I forgot to do when I installed the fresh version of windows?

anybody?  anybody?

I decided to do a  new fresh install of windows on the evo and that's when I remembered.  I was gonna go back and clone it again, but i said what the hell, I am almost done anyway and all I am gonna copy is aces high anyway.

it is fast, not magically fast, but it is fast.  it also helps if you actually connect it to the right place  .

anyway it's a done deal.  now I have an extra hd that can go back into the closet for a rainy day .


semp

[MrRiplEy[H]]

It will only be prohibitive for a while.  Nature of the beast.  Once the market adjusts the SATA SSD's, the PCIe based ones will start dropping into place.

I've had a PCIe based OCZ Revodrive 3 SSD for years already. They're consumer targeted, these Intel models then again are enterprise targeted so I doubt they'll come down in price drastically. Intels strategy is usually to first publish new technology for enterprises with a huge price premium, then after a while they launch a slightly detuned but drastically cheaper consumer versions.

[guncrasher]

finally figured out that there's one more setting in bios that enables ahci.  to settings to change in bios plus one in the regedit.  

hd is now about twice as fast as it was before.  which is faster than it was when I just had my regular hd.  still dont really think it's worth the money yet, as I only bought it because I had some "play money" and wanted to test it.  but not sure if the time saved is worth a year of acesh high subscription money .

total cost was about 150 bucks for the drive and a 12 pack plus a couple of hours worth of research.


semp

edit: tomorrow reasearch to see if trim support is actually enabled in the os 

[Skuzzy]

If you are using the SSD for Windows, you will want to have a regular hard drive and move the swap space to it, as Windows writes/reads/deletes data on that partition, all the time.

If you cannot do that, at least set a fixed size for the swap partition.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

finally figured out that there's one more setting in bios that enables ahci.  to settings to change in bios plus one in the regedit.  

hd is now about twice as fast as it was before.  which is faster than it was when I just had my regular hd.  still dont really think it's worth the money yet, as I only bought it because I had some "play money" and wanted to test it.  but not sure if the time saved is worth a year of acesh high subscription money .

total cost was about 150 bucks for the drive and a 12 pack plus a couple of hours worth of research.


semp

edit: tomorrow reasearch to see if trim support is actually enabled in the os 

If you have an older motherboard that only supports SATA 3Gb/s it's going to be still about 50% of what you could get out of it.

[guncrasher]

couldnt sleep so I did find out that trim was already enabled in windows.  did get performance specified for the evo.  installed aces high and wot on it just to test it for a couple of days.  then I'll move them to my regular hd.


semp

[guncrasher]

I was thinking, since I am a millionaire and I only work as a hobby  .  I am gonna leave aces high and wot on the ssd and see how long it lasts.  I guess some real world testing is needed see how far we have come. 

mrripley I do hope the test you have linked are correct and no way this ssd will be damaged in less than 10 years  .

thanks for your help and suggestions guys  .


semp

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I was thinking, since I am a millionaire and I only work as a hobby  .  I am gonna leave aces high and wot on the ssd and see how long it lasts.  I guess some real world testing is needed see how far we have come. 

mrripley I do hope the test you have linked are correct and no way this ssd will be damaged in less than 10 years  .

thanks for your help and suggestions guys  .


semp

Yep according to the tests and technology used your SSD may die, but running games will not be the one that kills it. It will be a statistical component failure, not wearing out.

[Pudgie]

I was thinking, since I am a millionaire and I only work as a hobby  .  I am gonna leave aces high and wot on the ssd and see how long it lasts.  I guess some real world testing is needed see how far we have come. 

mrripley I do hope the test you have linked are correct and no way this ssd will be damaged in less than 10 years  .

thanks for your help and suggestions guys  .


semp

So far on my box (listed in sig below) it's been 1 yr 8 mos since I installed & set up (cloned from both of the WD Cavier Black 500 Gb SATA III HDD's that I initially bought in 5-13-12 when I originally built this box) my 2 OCZ Vertex 4 SATA III 256Gb SSD's w/ Win7 & AHII loaded on 1 SSD & using the 2nd SSD for page file duty & downloads & driver storage. Using AS SSD Benchmarking software to test SSD performance, to date I haven't detected any SSD performance/speed/NAND sector loss comparative to the initial test results on either SSD from when they were 1st installed.

Page file setup on the 2nd SSD is set for Windows to manage the page file size.

Did all this to test all the prevailing thoughts/theories of SSD usage since the advent of Win 7 w/ native SSD support & the current SSD tech.......and I'm also a geek by nature......................

Just thought you'd like to know......................... .

So far, so good. AHII runs flawless..................... ........

As you can see, you're not the only 1 Guncrasher who thinks of being a millionare & only works for a living as a hobby............

I say go for it!

Be interested in your results...................... ............