TomHD Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 (edited) Zero right now but its one of the "big" things for next year. And same a @Sheridan too! Edited September 13, 2015 by TomHD
Marc_EduTech Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 Out of curiosity, those of you who have committed to going down the SSD route, what drives have you gone for?
jamin100 Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 OCZ Arc 120GB for general machines 240GB for SLT
rrrrr Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 Intel 840 pro 128/256gb. Had a few crucial but had a few fail so staying intel now. HP in servers
mrbios Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 All staff, admin and IT suites are. It's a bit scattered for the rest, so probably about 85% of the site. The only storage in the server room is hybrid (Nimble) or backup (Large HDDs....or tape if that's counted )
Edu-IT Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 (edited) What caddies are people using where 2.5" drives are being used, instead of 3.5"? Something like this? EZ-Fit Lite MB290SP-B Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Kit/Bracket | MB290SP-B | Novatech Also, what sort of prices are being paid for SSD's now? And what brands are recommended? Edited September 13, 2015 by Edu-IT
Sheridan Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 Mainly kingstons for us, cheap as chips and performance has turned old core2 PCs into better than i5s with traditional drives!
Arthur Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 (edited) What caddies are people using where 2.5" drives are being used, instead of 3.5"? Self-adhesive Velcro squares since they are significantly cheaper than 2.5" to 3.5" adapters. We bought 100 for £5.79 (ex. VAT), so under 6p per square. Also, what sort of prices are being paid for SSD's now? £42.62 for 120GB Samsung 850 EVOs and £33.22 for 120GB SanDisk Ultra IIs (this was back in June). And what brands are recommended? Intel and Samsung are safe bets, although I generally don't go by brand as some manufacturers make both good and bad SSDs. Personally I avoid the really low-end SSDs like SanDisk's SSD Plus and Kingston's SSDNow V300 since the price/performance ratio is quite poor. Edited September 13, 2015 by Arthur
AJWhite1970 Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 kits? Velcro from the local fabric shop down the road
ITGURU Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 What size SSDs are you using? Whilst 120GB appears to be enough for student PCs, do you use higher capacity for teacher PCs for running department software, SIMS etc?
lholland421 Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 We have 128gb in all of ours with plenty of room left
dhicks Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 We have 128gb in all of ours with plenty of room left We mostly have 120GB Crucial drives, with around 80GB taken up by the average workstation install. We have a few larger drives (512GB) in a couple of machines used for video editing.
Edu-IT Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 Self-adhesive Velcro squares since they are significantly cheaper than 2.5" to 3.5" adapters. We bought 100 for £5.79 (ex. VAT), so under 6p per square. £42.62 for 120GB Samsung 850 EVOs and £33.22 for 120GB SanDisk Ultra IIs (this was back in June). Intel and Samsung are safe bets, although I generally don't go by brand as some manufacturers make both good and bad SSDs. Personally I avoid the really low-end SSDs like SanDisk's SSD Plus and Kingston's SSDNow V300 since the price/performance ratio is quite poor. Where are you going to get them at that price?
ITGURU Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 Where are you going to get them at that price? We Paid £36 for 120GB SSDs last October. They were the Kingston V300 drives and had no issues used daily in laptops. Had a Samsung evo at home which died on me.
Oaktech Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 I'm currently going the other way... But hear me out, I'm not an idiot! My predecessor bought hundreds of SSDs for everything under the sun, but he bought the smallest cheapest ones he could find. We have a 40gb install image, and by the time the machine has some user profiles and windows updates on it the 60gb drives are just too small and because they are cheap, some are beginning to fail. I didn't budget for having to replace almost 150 SSDs, so I've begged borrowed and swapped half the 60gb ssds for twice as many conventional 250-320gb drives. When they start to go, I will buy SSDs again, but for now I just need the space! It also doesn't help that some of our hardware is so awful that the difference in boot time between a HDD and an SSD is only a few seconds.
synaesthesia Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 I was annoyed when RM supplied one of my schools with 60GB SSDs. Gah, what a lack of foresight - they were barely big enough for the base CC4 image! Anyway, Velcro? What an extravagance! If we have nowhere to dangle an SSD with a single screw, blutack all the way!
Edu-IT Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 We Paid £36 for 120GB SSDs last October. They were the Kingston V300 drives and had no issues used daily in laptops. Had a Samsung evo at home which died on me. I had an email earlier about them being on offer but not sure whether to gamble it or not. Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 2.5inch SSD - Ebuyer
localzuk Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 The majority of our gear is still HDD, but the SSD phenomenon only really appeared after our last refresh. The new machines I'm buying shortly will all be SSD, as have been all laptops we've bought for the last year, and a set of SSDs to upgrade some of our aging machines also. I switched our "reused" thin clients to SSD a while back - 1GB IDE SSD... We have about 60 of them.
3s-gtech Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 Our 64GB M4s have done good service - they still work fine in most areas where we have them, but we had to upgrade on teacher PCs (due to local profiles and the wide variety of software in the base image) and we need to do some Tech department PCs (Solidworks is huge). The rest are 120GB. The 64GB models are fine for our exams laptops etc.
zag Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 Why do people buy silly cheap SSD's? I still don't get it for £50 quid you can get a 120gb intel model.
localzuk Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 Why do people buy silly cheap SSD's? I still don't get it for £50 quid you can get a 120gb intel model. You can get a Sandisk 128GB for £29. So, that means you can upgrade almost double the number of machines for the same price. Also, define "silly cheap SSDs"?
3s-gtech Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 When we bought ours, 120GB models were over £100+VAT. That's why.
Arthur Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 You can get a Sandisk 128GB for £29. ... and a 240GB SanDisk for £41.65 + VAT.
zag Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 You can get a Sandisk 128GB for £29. So, that means you can upgrade almost double the number of machines for the same price. Also, define "silly cheap SSDs"? Fair enough I guess, price has never really come into it for me with such a major part of a computer. I remember the days when a stick of RAM cost over £100
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