SSD - Question

[gshaw]

With the HDD supply issues now is the time for SSD manufacturers to really ramp up their production and get the cost/GB down to aggressively take market share from mechanical drives. I still find SSDs too pricey to make them a commodity purchase in the way I would an HDD... £100 for 80GB is still on the "luxury" side rather than being standard fit.

 

Would love to see all our desktops here on SSDs as we want the performance over masses of local space but the price difference for a good quality SSD over equivalent hard drive does push the price up at the moment.

[CyberNerd]

If you do go for an OCZ, avoid the vertex drives (especially the 60GB one's)... I've had 6 out of 7 die on me within 1-2 weeks of installing, I exchanged all the dead ones for OCZ agility's, and haven't had any problems with them. Still waiting for the 7th vertex to go...

 

I concur. We have had something like 30% failure rates on OCZ (all replaced by OCZ I should add)

[sted]

The 64GB Crucial M4 is only £20 more and even better still.

got my 128gb one sat at the side of me now going in my laptop when i get home and by the sounds of it my laptop looks a similar spec to the originaters pc

 

Product Specifications HP Pavilion dv9088ea Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

 

just with 4gb now and the 2 110gb hdds are going to be a 128gb boot ssd and a 500gb wd blue

[jamesfed]

If you do go for an OCZ, avoid the vertex drives (especially the 60GB one's)... I've had 6 out of 7 die on me within 1-2 weeks of installing, I exchanged all the dead ones for OCZ agility's, and haven't had any problems with them. Still waiting for the 7th vertex to go...

 

That’s very odd - I've got a OCZ Vertex in both my personal notebook (Vertex 2) and work PC (Vertex 3) never had any problems.

 

Also have put OCZ Agilitys in some PCs built for various people and again no issues ever.

[CyberNerd]

That’s very odd - I've got a OCZ Vertex in both my personal notebook (Vertex 2) and work PC (Vertex 3) never had any problems.

 

Also have put OCZ Agilitys in some PCs built for various people and again no issues ever.

 

some of ours are fine too. Try buying 30 of them, presumably from a faulty batch

[zag]

I wouldn't touch anything other than Intel for SSDs.

 

They use larger memory chips which are less prone to failure even if it does cost more and sacrifice some top end speed.

[sted]

for what its worth

std 110gb hdd boot time load firefox and get google from cold 2m45s

crucial m4 128gb sdd boot time load firefox and get google from cold 50s and quieter even with a 500gb 2nd drive in laptop

[godskitchen]

I fine OCZ fine too, been using them for a couple of years without problems.

[ToyHeartsFan]

We did a test to see if buying SSD's would pay off for the school. Our test machine was a Pentium D with 256MB RAM. It was ridiculously quick and booted Windows XP in a few seconds. Applications opening instantly and we had 100 explorer windows, 80 internet explorer windows and 50 word windows open, and still it showed no lag at all. Okay, it was overkill but we wanted to see how far we could push it. We probably could have gone further!

 

We have a lot of older kit and are still stuck on XP but I had discounted ssd's until we move to W7 because of the trim thing. Have you actually deployed ssd's in xp machines or was this just a short test as it might be another option for us to consider?

[zag]

We have a lot of older kit and are still stuck on XP but I had discounted ssd's until we move to W7 because of the trim thing. Have you actually deployed ssd's in xp machines or was this just a short test as it might be another option for us to consider?

 

Trim is a load of marketing rubbish. We've been running ssd's on XP for a year and a half no problems. I expect they will run for another 20 years without any problems.

 

Please remember that the transfer "speed" headline figures that are quoted are no use at all in daily workstation use. Maybe it would be important on a media machine that is copying 4gb videos everyday but not a normal workstation client. Its the access time which is important and that stays the same, trim or no trim.

 

I have had a samsung 20gb ssd in my htpc for 3 years now and its still going as good as any of my latest intel ssd's. I use it daily.