(Storage) SSD Discussion Thread

[rich26me]

Last week in KL saw shop at 2nd Fl Low Yat Plaza (Cycom) selling Kingston SSDNow V+ 100 96GB @ RM475 (if pay by cash)
This works out close to S$2/GB

 

[adrianlee]

Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SSD Review

 

[eno_lc]

need some info from the experts here, i have an old motherboard without ahci, will auto trim still works in windows 7? tried searching for the answer online but keep getting conflicting answers...

 

[Microstar]

Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SSD Review

Nice! I like what I see..



Performs better than OCZ Max IOPS wor..now I've switched sides..since it takes like dog years for Max IOPS to be available..wondering when Corbell will bring these red demons in

 

[maumu]

hi folks, anyone knows where i can get intel 320 series ssd 120/160gb? seems like the shops i asked all out of stock...

 

[Mach3.2]

hi folks, anyone knows where i can get intel 320 series ssd 120/160gb? seems like the shops i asked all out of stock...

sls?
If out of stock, leave contact no. reserve from them lor

 

[Wildreamz]

Can someone recommend me an SSD to improve PC performance?
Would buy a new sandybridge mobo with it.
Budget conscious.

 

[Mach3.2]

Can someone recommend me an SSD to improve PC performance?
Would buy a new sandybridge mobo with it.
Budget conscious.

http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/promos
There's alot of price list in the price list button<<

 

[some1outthere]

so far appears that the Corsair SandForce Series 128GB 2.5in SSD is the cheapest $/GB.. $285.

 

[Just Me]

Is it really worth the hassle to upgrade to SSD? Was thinking of the Intel 320 series. Current setup is a P35 chipset mobo with Q6600 cpu running on Win7 x64..

 

[GUOYIN2000]

once you use one, you can nvr go back!

 

[ralfale]

V worth it. Better than upgrade processor I feel. Everything becomes v fast.

 

[xtreme84]

V worth it. Better than upgrade processor I feel. Everything becomes v fast.

Agreed, that's why I went for an SSD upgrade before a CPU upgrade. Of course, that's provided we have a half-decent CPU already of course.

 

[Thinker]

Upgrade the most likely bottleneck in your system first, then add an SSD. It's not exactly a miracle worker.

Unless yours is a laptop, then LL loh. Upgrade RAM then SSD.

 

[some1outthere]

Usually when I check the performance, like CPU utilization & RAM, when opening a document, the file/picture takes quite a while to load, while CPU and RAM usage is still very low, even on a celeron 1.6GHz system..

So, the bottleneck is most likely the HardDisk access. In this aspect, a SSD shd be make a big difference to the overall performance.

 

[misato]

Usually when I check the performance, like CPU utilization & RAM, when opening a document, the file/picture takes quite a while to load, while CPU and RAM usage is still very low, even on a celeron 1.6GHz system..

So, the bottleneck is most likely the HardDisk access. In this aspect, a SSD shd be make a big difference to the overall performance.

If you look back at the development and speed breakthrough we have for the past decades, harddisk performance hardly improved much, the only noteworthy thing is, at least the cost of GB is going down. So it is fair to say that today harddisk is the bottleneck of modern computing systems.

 

[adrianlee]

SSD Roundup from Crucial, Intel and OCZ
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB
Crucial m4 256GB
Intel 510 120GB
Intel 510 250GB
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
OCZ Vertex 3 480GB
OCZ Vertex 2 240GB
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/ssd-sata-600.html

 

[GUOYIN2000]

When ssd first came out, I read this article on the potential benefits of a ssd based on the seek times of various components.

CPU and ram had seek times measured in nano-seconds or less.
Mechanical hdd was measured in milliseconds, so thats a difference from 1000x already.
SSDs push the seek times down to nano seconds and this is where anyone will realise most of the benefits.

 

[some1outthere]

When ssd first came out, I read this article on the potential benefits of a ssd based on the seek times of various components.

CPU and ram had seek times measured in nano-seconds or less.
Mechanical hdd was measured in milliseconds, so thats a difference from 1000x already.
SSDs push the seek times down to nano seconds and this is where anyone will realise most of the benefits.

You can't really compare this way..

Consider opening a graphics file.

HDD -> Read and load =>
CPU/RAM -> Calculations, process, data CPU<->RAM => Graphics card -> Display.

CPU and RAM access time may be very short, but the actual processing might take a while. If the CPU is fast enuff, then, bottle neck is the HDD. If not, then changing to SSD may not improve the performance much.

However, from recent years, CPU speed almost doubled very 6 mth (moore's law?) while HDD performance not as much improvement. Hence, HDD is fast becoming the bottleneck.

 

[GUOYIN2000]

I agree with that although if you remove the bottleneck from the hdd in that flow, there will be significant gains already

Also I believe that there are many types of processes where the hdd is the main bottleneck