SSD Question

[sax]

Hello Everyone,

I want to get a SSD drive and the sata 3's seem real expensive... if i get a sata 2 (3gb) will i still see a great perfomrance difference or should i just wait until i can afford the sata 3's

[mmettin]

Hello Everyone,

I want to get a SSD drive and the sata 3's seem real expensive... if i get a sata 2 (3gb) will i still see a great perfomrance difference or should i just wait until i can afford the sata 3's

In relative comparison to each other or to a spinning disc ?

[sax]

In relative comparison

[mmettin]

These help you out any ?

[sax]

a little but my question is do i wait to buy a sata 3 ssd when i can afford it or get 2 ssd at sata 2?

[mmettin]

a little but my question is do i wait to buy a sata 3 ssd when i can afford it or get 2 ssd at sata 2?

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I think 1 sata 2 drive is fast enough....If it's not then you can decide to purchase another one, or "upgrade" to sata 3

[IntelEnthusiast]

I am using an Intel® Solid State Drive X25-M 80GB and totally love it. I am getting around a 20 second boot time with my system based around the Intel Core™ I7 2600K. I will never go back to not using a SSD as a boot drive again; they are so much faster than HDDs. So if you can’t afford a new SATA 3 drive like the Intel Enthusiast Solid State Drive 510’s by all means pick up a main stream drive like the new Intel SSD 320’s or even the older X25-M.

Today, Intel has announced the release of the new Intel® Solid-State Drive 320 series. The new 320 series is the follow on to the Intel Solid-State Drive X25-M main stream drives. You can read information on these drives at http://www.intel.com/design/flash/na...s/overview.htm. These are great SATA 2 drives and will have a very attractive price point.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

[Mjölnir]

Sax, if you're still using a magnetic drive, then yes, you will see a significant improvement in performance with any SSD. Particularly with load times (Windows & apps). Granted the newer ones will be quite a bit faster than previous gen SSD's, but they'll also probably be quite expensive for some time.

Like IntelEnthusiast, I also picked up an SSD (OCZ Vertex II E) and have watched Windows load times drop to 15 seconds. All my apps load way faster than they did on my old 74GB ADFD Raptor. I'll never go back to anything less than SSD now

If you do look at getting an older one, make damn sure it has TRIM support. If you're looking at two older ones, don't bother. You'd be better off with one of the newer ones.

[Poci]

The real advantage i see with SSDs are 0ms access time.

My velociraptor has nice transfer speeds but still has like 7ms access time.
Am planning on getting an SSD in next build, probably when bulldozers are on the market.

[sax]

ended up getting two corsair performance SSD's 128 put them in raid and ....!!!! what a diference!!!! I plan on upgrading them in the future when i can afford it thanks guys for all your help

[Poci]

SSDs dont really like RAID.

Maybe its diferent new with TRIM firmware updates, but I remember that performance would actually degrade over time if you RAIDed SSDs

[Mjölnir]

SSDs dont really like RAID.

Maybe its diferent new with TRIM firmware updates, but I remember that performance would actually degrade over time if you RAIDed SSDs

SSD's with TRIM support require the RAID controller to also have TRIM support in order to use it (as well as the OS having TRIM support), otherwise they will not use TRIM in RAID. That said, some SSD manufacturers have cleanup tools that help restore performance. The idea is to run them periodically. Granted not the same as TRIM, but probably good enough.

[richardd43]

If you are running in RAID just log out overnight and GarbageCollector will clean up your drives for you.

I do mine monthly and have never had a slow down problem.