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Anyone using a SSD drive yet?
Anyone using a SSD drive yet?
I’m thinking of upgrading to a SSD drive for my OS drive since the main bottleneck on my mac is my HDD which my OS boots from
I’ve had my eye on one of these for a while
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-agility-2-sata-ii-2-5-ssd.html
180GB is roughly £300 though 🙁
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It’s good for boot related stuff (especially laptops) but for data or temporary files it is not, so I have read. I would just go for biggest u need for your programs and operating system and then 7200 hdd for data etc.
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Like Dave says it really depends what you are doing, I run PC’s so can’t really comment on Mac’s but I always put the OS on a reasonably small HDD and everything else goes on to separate drives. Disable most of the installed software auto start functions so I reduce the amount of stuff running in the background that isn’t needed.
Prices are already dropping so give it a while longer and you will probably be able to pick them up at a fraction of the cost.
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Yeah i’m going to keep my data on a separate drive hence the smaller SSD drive, at the moment my HDD that the OS runs off uses 120GB so would want something a little larger so that it’s good for future installs
Thankfully the Mac OS doesn’t defrag and rewrite un-necessarily like windows does so drive performance will be better and last longer
At the moment my OS runs off a 320GB HDD and I’ve got a 1TB drive for storage (both are 7200RPM)
so I’ll format the 320GB for personal files/space and keep the 1TB to do backups and such on
I know alot of the early SSD drives have issues with last-ability and read/write issues so I’ll keep away from those
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Running two 60GB OCZ Vertexs in Raid 0. They fly.
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quote Jason Xuereb:Running two 60GB OCZ Vertexs in Raid 0. They fly.
no good for rips? or processing large files or is it jason?
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quote Dave Rowland:quote Jason Xuereb:Running two 60GB OCZ Vertexs in Raid 0. They fly.
no good for rips? or processing large files or is it jason?
Hey Dave,
We use the SSD drives on a Windows Design computer. We have a NAS for network storage so the files don’t get stored on that machine.
Our rips don’t use SSD drives so can’t comment there. But from what I’ve read the constant reading and write that a busy RIP would need would impact the perfomance and life span of the SSD drives.
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Thankfully I don’t have a rip on my mac for now so that wouldn’t be an issue… the windows that runs from my mac is on a separate drive for now but I’d consider upgrading to a larger SSD further down the line and put the one I’m going to get soon as my virtual windows setup
I’ve seen the speed of certain macs with the SSD and it’s amazing so going to give it a go, at the moment that main bottleneck of my machine is my HDD
I’ll post results 😀
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Did a bit of research on ssds in general. Most come with huge warranted lifespans.
I was primarily looking at it as a scratch disk for photoshop but apparently they are really not optimised for that due to the way ps saves…so pointless for that.
As an os drive i can’t see why getting windows to boot in 8 seconds rather than 30 is an advantage. 20 seconds out of my day…
If however they could be used to create a superfast virtual memory great.
Server grade ssds may well meet read write speeds to mske significant improvements otherwise a quality hdd might be better.
Huge ram is the way forward. Can see a new mobo that’ll take 16gb in my future…and turning off the virtual memory in windows totally. Done it before and wow…quick, but exceed the ram and it’ll just crash!Let us know how you get on
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Yeah i have seen issues with the windows side of it but as far as it goes on the mac it seems a lot more reliable
My machine is a dual quad core 2.8GHz intel mac with 14GB of memory… should be 22GB but crucial is out of 4GB sticks at the moment 👿
HDD really is my bottleneck at the moment so I can’t go wrong… I’ll just make sure I keep a regular backup of my OS on another drive just incase
It’s worth the gamble if it boosts speed
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similar to what i heard…. but not comes across server based SSDs..
there is PCI Card based systems which are stupid speeds but not affordable.
I am sure memory will prevail eventually
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quote Dave Rowland:similar to what i heard…. but not comes across server based SSDs..
there is PCI Card based systems which are stupid speeds but not affordable.
I am sure memory will prevail eventually
Silly SATA based one with super high speeds…and super high prices!
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only a matter of time for them to drop….
I spied OCZ Revodrive out there which is a PCI-Express SSD, this is what I thought might be best but many reviews out there about bios and compatibility issues
Perhaps not just yet
Remember, SSD is for performance boosting, doesn’t really like a lot of small data files like the temp files, so your apps "loading" will go fast but number crunching it is not that great.
Need to learn more about PCI-Express version tho
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