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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: guncrasher on June 02, 2014, 10:27:37 PM
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147248&leaderboard=1
offer only for today.
semp
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http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-EVO-Series-2-5-Inch-MZ-7TE250BW/dp/B00E3W1726/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
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I keep forgetting I basically live next to newegg and get everything overnight anyway. I paid the 1.99 shipping instead of the free 3-7 day. last time it was like 5 bucks :rofl.
when I ordered the x-55 I almost paid for overnight shipping to get the stick before friday's fso. but I really didnt feel like paying the 55 dollar charge. to my surprise their warehouse is 5 miles from my house and got it the next day after shipping anyway.
semp
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I love Newegg but man the rape me on shipping to APO. I put that SSD in my cart and shipping quoted out to $26.95 :O Meanwhile, I can by autoparts in huge boxes from American Muscle and they charge $7. Go figure.
I bought that SSD and a PSU from Amazon and total shipping was $12.57.
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I wish I had waited to buy one. :cry
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I wish I had waited to buy one. :cry
Don't cry. Did you forget we're talking about computers here? They become old fashioned trash right at the moment they leave the store. Of course that applies to components, too. Just wait and see: Next week you'll see something else sold for zilch compared to what you've just paid for one. Just don't think about it and get what you need when you need it. There aren't any "cycles", at least not for the whole package, so you may pay "too much" for some component but "win" at the same time for another. If you stay within your budget, all's well. Just my thoughts, though.
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Don't cry. Did you forget we're talking about computers here? They become old fashioned trash right at the moment they leave the store. Of course that applies to components, too. Just wait and see: Next week you'll see something else sold for zilch compared to what you've just paid for one. Just don't think about it and get what you need when you need it. There aren't any "cycles", at least not for the whole package, so you may pay "too much" for some component but "win" at the same time for another. If you stay within your budget, all's well. Just my thoughts, though.
I'll buy another one, then I will have saved money! :banana: :banana:
:headscratch::uhoh
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I'll buy another one, then I will have saved money! :banana: :banana:
:headscratch::uhoh
Hmmm... in a way yes, for instance if you can make use of another one for added security in a mirrored raid array.
A side note: I seem to need a pair of glasses for computing: In your sig I read your in-game nick was "Fukrum". The funniest part of this is, that I recognized your name and thought there was a typo, a missing "L" until I remembered it's written with a "c" instead of a "k" in the middle. Ctrl-+ helped again...
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I would suspect there are going to be a lot of sales of the SATA based SSD's coming soon, now that Intel has announced a PCIe (18 lane) based SSD and controller.
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Hmmm... in a way yes, for instance if you can make use of another one for added security in a mirrored raid array.
A side note: I seem to need a pair of glasses for computing: In your sig I read your in-game nick was "Fukrum". The funniest part of this is, that I recognized your name and thought there was a typo, a missing "L" until I remembered it's written with a "c" instead of a "k" in the middle. Ctrl-+ helped again...
:lol no worries man... I actually have had people call me that while giving me a six call on range!
I was actually kidding about saving money or buying another one. I have relatives who think like that...Sadly.
Been around the IT world for a long time so I understand how these things go down... But it still hurts when it happens. :cry
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I thought you'd be kidding but the idea of getting another for raid felt so good I thought someone might really find that useful.
And yes, it hurts to buy something just before a rebate. But hey! It's only money, it's been around for so long that everyone has seen and used it and they keep printing more all the time!
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I would suspect there are going to be a lot of sales of the SATA based SSD's coming soon, now that Intel has announced a PCIe (18 lane) based SSD and controller.
Those models are enterprise stuff so the cost will be prohibitive for regular users most likely. But agreed, prices are coming down fast. Especially due to the recent Japanese research finding which makes it possible to get 200-300% higher i/o from existing SSDs by just a firmware update - and get reduced nand wear as a bonus. They solved a huge bottleneck in SSD controller.
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I thought you'd be kidding but the idea of getting another for raid felt so good I thought someone might really find that useful.
And yes, it hurts to buy something just before a rebate. But hey! It's only money, it's been around for so long that everyone has seen and used it and they keep printing more all the time!
Oh, the RAID idea IS appealing....I don't run raid on the one SSD (its my games drive)...only on my OS SSD (mirrored). ;)
It's convincing the 'family CFO' for the funding that will be the tricky part. :uhoh
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Oh, the RAID idea IS appealing....I don't run raid on the one SSD (its my games drive)...only on my OS SSD (mirrored). ;)
It's convincing the 'family CFO' for the funding that will be the tricky part. :uhoh
Just bring the suspicious package home and then announce to the kids: Guess what? Mac&Cheese for the rest of the week yeaaa! :bolt:
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Those models are enterprise stuff so the cost will be prohibitive for regular users most likely. But agreed, prices are coming down fast. Especially due to the recent Japanese research finding which makes it possible to get 200-300% higher i/o from existing SSDs by just a firmware update - and get reduced nand wear as a bonus. They solved a huge bottleneck in SSD controller.
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.
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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
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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 :bhead.
anyway it's a done deal. now I have an extra hd that can go back into the closet for a rainy day :).
semp
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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.
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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 :uhoh
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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.
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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 :uhoh
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.
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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
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I was thinking, since I am a millionaire and I only work as a hobby :lol. 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 :eek:.
thanks for your help and suggestions guys :salute.
semp
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I was thinking, since I am a millionaire and I only work as a hobby :lol. 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 :eek:.
thanks for your help and suggestions guys :salute.
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.
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I was thinking, since I am a millionaire and I only work as a hobby :lol. 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 :eek:.
thanks for your help and suggestions guys :salute.
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...................... :D
Just thought you'd like to know......................... . :cool:
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............ :lol :D
I say go for it!
Be interested in your results...................... ............
:salute