P.S. I can't recommend buying OCZ. As much as I hate to admit it (as an AMD fan), Intel is hands down the best SSD manufacturer. Even though they are no longer the performance leader, their QA/QC and reliability is far superior.
An SSD will make your boot times and application load times much faster. It will also reduce the impact of background processes like Windows logging/prefetching/indexing, virus scanning, searching, etc. that can have a huge performance problem with a spinner.
For specific applications, you're...
Not just failure rates, but compatability issues. Intel just does a lot better job with QA/QC.
Nothing like buying a $350 Vertex (2 years ago) that isn't even a good paperweight!
I'd prefer they release a firmware that makes mine work without suffering from fatal data corruption, because even "normal" speed is better than non-working.
(I've RMAd it twice and they refuse to refund my money despite the drive not working in several machines and all other drives...
Your CPU is many orders of magnitude faster than any SSD on the Market (see difference between horse draw carriage and a scramjet). In a typical desktop setup, CPUs spend the majority of their cycles waiting for data to process -- even when all the data is cached in RAM. This is why SSDs are...
It's not "bad" to clone, but I've always preferred a clean install for several reasons:
* Cleaning general cruft
* Getting rid of malware (espeically potential rootkits) that is not being detected (malware scans are only about 80% effective as it relies on 100% knowledge of all malware in...
Are there any viable add on cards that provide SATA III support. By viable I mean
1.) Provide genuine SATA III performance/reliability
2.) no more than $50
I'm looking to possibly upgrade my SSD to a SF-2xxx or a G3 drive but don't want to replace my motherboard.
The only way to recover overwritten data is to send the drive to a data recovery company. They remount the platters and scan the drive with an electron microscope.
Unless his emails are with more than 5 figures, he's just SOL.
The only thing that concerns me with wear on my SSD is my browser. I stream Netflix and that seems to dump large amounts of data into the browser cache (After watching one film I'll easily have 300MB+ of cache).
However (and please correct me if I'm wrong) but the wear issue seems to be moot...
The only reason to move the swap to the second HDD drive is to save wear on the SSD.
You will definitely notice a difference if your machine is actually using swap space.
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