If you don't have a SSD, get one.

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I've been holding out for a while, thinking a SSD wouldn't make that big of a difference... but holy shit... I'm living in the future now. I built a small nettop-ish PC for it, using an AMD e-350, and with the SSD it blows away my old Intel dual core setup. Things. Load. So. Fast.

Get one.

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i agree... much better than sata. been using an SSD drive for like 3 years now. quiet too.
 
I want to set one up as a booting partition, then use my other HDD for file storage.

Not sure if I would still need this setup though, I think I read somewhere that SSD's don't have as big of issues about wearing out over heavy read/writes, but I need to do more research on it to make sure.
 
Yeah, everyone thinks getting the fastest CPU and 16gb of ram will make their PC load things fast... nope. Stick an SSD in any old shitty computer and all of a sudden it becomes excellent. My main computer is 5 or 6 year old core 2 duo 1.8ghz with 2GB ram... runs all my shit perfectly thanks to the SSD. I see no reason to upgrade in the foreseeable future. I'll put an SSD in my macbook pro when that turns to shit too.
 
So been kicking the idea of an SSD for a while to boot off of. Any recommendations on size for running the OS (WIN7 ultimate) off of the SSD maybe a 64 gig or maybe a 128? Also any brands that are standing out?
 
I had 2 velociraptors in a RAID and one just died the other day so I went down to best buy and ended up getting 2 Intel 320 SSDs. Put them in a RAID0 and I'm getting about the same as you - over 500 reads and close to 200 on sequential writes. Pretty sweet. The weirdest thing at first is getting used to the fact that they are silent. They barely get warm at all too which is another plus ...
 
I've been thinking on getting one, how about durability? In your experience which is the average lifespan of a SSD?
 
Too expensive and not enough room at the moment. I'll buy one when it's like $100 for 1TB.

I bought a small and fast drive to use as my main drive once and then had a large secondary drive and it was so annoying. Windows and a lot of programs automatically put stuff in the main drive and it is always full and you have to keep clearing stuff off of it, it is so annoying.
 
I have SSDs on the two servers I run, makes a huge difference if you have a high load, I would not be able to get by with mysql on a regular hard drive.

Also have 128 gig as my boot drive in a notebook with dual drives. The other drive is 500 gig, so no problems with storage. Windows restart takes about 30 seconds till you have a screen back you can use. Photoshop loads in seconds. The windows install takes about 35 gig, so the rest of the space can be used for the most intensive programs you have.
 
Stick with XP and optimize your shit and you can get by with a lot less space. My entire XP Pro install, plus all my apps (including Photoshop, Office, EVERYTHING) only uses up 18GB. Be sure to turn off all that bullshit like system restore, hibernation, etc.
 
I thought I knew all about computer technology, but I have no idea how these work. I know what they are, but when i look at them they look like graphics cards and how they plug into pci slots.

How do these work exactly? Is it like plugging in a USB drive and using that as extra memory to make your computer a little faster? Is that the general idea behind it?

Also I noticed that they have pretty..weak.. storage capacity so I am guessing these things aren't ment to store anything? And if they are ment to store things, are the things you store on it the only things that will load faster?
 
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