The Bliss of SSD!!

[Mango1970]

So I finally got around to ritiing my original OCZ Core SSD as my OS drive. It took quite a while and lots of tweaking but it served me well as an OS drive running Vista and now Win 7.

I got a great deal on a OCZ Vertex Turbo 30 GB as my OS drive. It's running Win7 64. I then have an OCZ Vertex 120 GB as my gaming drive and finally a Samsung 750 GB drive as my storage. Also have an external drive I hook up via eSATA when I need to back up.

I simply cannot express the difference SSD has made in my computing use. I honestly thought the OCZ core (original) was great (for running apps not installing them that's for sure), but this Turbo is insane.

I can't imagine ever going back to a spindle drive. I am still waiting for my 80 GB Intel SSD G2 for my laptop.

In the last little while SSD's have finally made upgrading something to dream about -- no new video card or CPU or Ram upgrade has made this much difference overall.

Anyhow... sorry was bored at work and just had to let it all out.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Mango1970
So I finally got around to ritiing my original OCZ Core SSD as my OS drive. It took quite a while and lots of tweaking but it served me well as an OS drive running Vista and now Win 7.

I got a great deal on a OCZ Vertex Turbo 30 GB as my OS drive. It's running Win7 64. I then have an OCZ Vertex 120 GB as my gaming drive and finally a Samsung 750 GB drive as my storage. Also have an external drive I hook up via eSATA when I need to back up.

I simply cannot express the difference SSD has made in my computing use. I honestly thought the OCZ core (original) was great (for running apps not installing them that's for sure), but this Turbo is insane.

I can't imagine ever going back to a spindle drive. I am still waiting for my 80 GB Intel SSD G2 for my laptop.

In the last little while SSD's have finally made upgrading something to dream about -- no new video card or CPU or Ram upgrade has made this much difference overall.

Anyhow... sorry was bored at work and just had to let it all out.

Good to know making the upgrade to a SSD is well worth it! I keep hearing it makes the biggest difference out of all upgrades you could do!

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: Mango1970
So I finally got around to ritiing my original OCZ Core SSD as my OS drive. It took quite a while and lots of tweaking but it served me well as an OS drive running Vista and now Win 7.

I got a great deal on a OCZ Vertex Turbo 30 GB as my OS drive. It's running Win7 64. I then have an OCZ Vertex 120 GB as my gaming drive and finally a Samsung 750 GB drive as my storage. Also have an external drive I hook up via eSATA when I need to back up.

I simply cannot express the difference SSD has made in my computing use. I honestly thought the OCZ core (original) was great (for running apps not installing them that's for sure), but this Turbo is insane.

I can't imagine ever going back to a spindle drive. I am still waiting for my 80 GB Intel SSD G2 for my laptop.

In the last little while SSD's have finally made upgrading something to dream about -- no new video card or CPU or Ram upgrade has made this much difference overall.

Anyhow... sorry was bored at work and just had to let it all out.

Good to know making the upgrade to a SSD is well worth it! I keep hearing it makes the biggest difference out of all upgrades you could do!

Give me SLC, 256GB@$2/GB or less, a descent controller, an extremely large cache, and 3rd generation algorithms for wear leveling and I'm there with you all.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I too think I will wait for the 3rd gen SSD drives

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I too think I will wait for the 3rd gen SSD drives

As will I! Having a lot of hard drive space and that kind of speed will rock even more!

 

[dfedders]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I too think I will wait for the 3rd gen SSD drives

As will I! Having a lot of hard drive space and that kind of speed will rock even more!

Why do you need that much space? There is no need to have mp3s or movies or any other large content on an SSD.

I think even 80GB is enough for the OS, standard apps, and a few games for quick load times. All other files and content can go on slower, less expensive storage.

 

[Mango1970]

Agree, the OS drive needs little to no space (well ok 30 GB drive)... the game drive is a 120 GB which is WAY more than I need. Everything else goes to storage on a "regular" ol' spindle drive. Honestly you dont need much unless it's a server of some sort I would think.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: Mango1970
Agree, the OS drive needs little to no space (well ok 30 GB drive)... the game drive is a 120 GB which is WAY more than I need. Everything else goes to storage on a "regular" ol' spindle drive. Honestly you dont need much unless it's a server of some sort I would think.

Agree. Step one is getting your OS on an SSD and 30GB is more than enough if you know how to set up an OS.

Step 2 is getting your games on one and I suppose the 160GB is big enough for that. I can't imagine any other media being worthy of being placed on an SSD. A $70 1TB drive is good for all that other stuff.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: dfedders

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I too think I will wait for the 3rd gen SSD drives

As will I! Having a lot of hard drive space and that kind of speed will rock even more!

Why do you need that much space? There is no need to have mp3s or movies or any other large content on an SSD.

I think even 80GB is enough for the OS, standard apps, and a few games for quick load times. All other files and content can go on slower, less expensive storage.

Yeah your right. Still it would be nice but not necessary.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: Mango1970
So I finally got around to ritiing my original OCZ Core SSD as my OS drive. It took quite a while and lots of tweaking but it served me well as an OS drive running Vista and now Win 7.

I got a great deal on a OCZ Vertex Turbo 30 GB as my OS drive. It's running Win7 64. I then have an OCZ Vertex 120 GB as my gaming drive and finally a Samsung 750 GB drive as my storage. Also have an external drive I hook up via eSATA when I need to back up.

I simply cannot express the difference SSD has made in my computing use. I honestly thought the OCZ core (original) was great (for running apps not installing them that's for sure), but this Turbo is insane.

I can't imagine ever going back to a spindle drive. I am still waiting for my 80 GB Intel SSD G2 for my laptop.

In the last little while SSD's have finally made upgrading something to dream about -- no new video card or CPU or Ram upgrade has made this much difference overall.

Anyhow... sorry was bored at work and just had to let it all out.

Explain?

 

[ilkhan]

stuttering (or just low write speeds) Id guess.

 

[jimhsu]

In general: Running apps - high random read, low write - good for (a JMicron) SSD
Installing apps - high seq and random write - very bad (for a JMicron, not so with a "good" SSD).

 

[Mango1970]

Yes I did not make that clear. My bad. The original OCZ Core using the Jmicron controller was horrible at installing apps or just writing to it (random writes). It was however very good at access... it was of course way faster than a regular spindle drive as long as made sure of setting it up so little if anything actually ever did any writing to that OCZ Core OS drive (hence all the recommended OCZ forum tweaks). Starting up Office Word would be instant. Opening up Firefox would be instant (after settings its cache directory to my regular old spindle drive).

Now that I have the new OCZ Vertex turbo, it seems that I have the best of both worlds. I did NOT do any tweaks... and it's blazing fast and I can open up whatever the heck I want even when it's doing some auto update in teh back etc., and it does stutter my system to a crawl like before.

 

[Eeqmcsq]

My worries still with SSDs are the performance drop caused by the "used" state. I know TRIM is coming, as is OCZ/Indilinx garbage collecting firmware, but they're still all new and untested.

 

[BaboonGuy]

Originally posted by: Eeqmcsq
My worries still with SSDs are the performance drop caused by the "used" state. I know TRIM is coming, as is OCZ/Indilinx garbage collecting firmware, but they're still all new and untested.

Have you read Anand's SSD articles? Go read them if you haven't. New Indilinx based/X25M G2 already have TRIM.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: Eeqmcsq
My worries still with SSDs are the performance drop caused by the "used" state. I know TRIM is coming, as is OCZ/Indilinx garbage collecting firmware, but they're still all new and untested.

Even in their fully used state, these SSD drives are faster than any spindle drive out there.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: Eeqmcsq
My worries still with SSDs are the performance drop caused by the "used" state. I know TRIM is coming, as is OCZ/Indilinx garbage collecting firmware, but they're still all new and untested.

Yeah, I figure by the 3rd generation, they'll have much better wear leveling firmware, proper TRIM support, garbage collecting, etc. Let them test it all out in the 2nd generation drives, get the pricing down, and then I'll be ready to install Windows 7 (OS install, enable AHCI support in my BIOS, and reinstall everything on the system) at this point; probably with SP1 ready to go too. My Velociraptor 300GB still has a bit of life left in it and doesn't feel all that slow to me.