I have considered going SSD for one of my drives. I got a 7200rpm 1TB drive about 6 months ago for my main data storage. I suppose that would be enough bulk storage for any man. So I can lose my 500GB old primary frive and replace it with a 200GB SSD.
I did have a thought Mr. Oli. They say you shouldn't format a SSD drive as it can mess it up after awhile. I don't know if the ever-changing files would cause it damage.
I've had another thought, I'm an idiot. It will be fine for overwriting files, just not formatting.
20:38 Jan 14th 2011
ShatnerzBassoon
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Wonder if you could retro fit one to the XBox slim… is it just a standard SATA connector Oli sir?
Fallout new vegas runs like a dream from a high speed USB stick I have, from an SSD you would probably never see a load screen
20:56 Jan 14th 2011
antman
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Most SSDs are SATA II connection
21:04 Jan 14th 2011
Oli-1977
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As You can see the size and connections is exectly the same as a normal hdd.
That 80 gb hdd that I showed there in the vid is the old one from the PS3 fat 80gb.
To Ant, You are correct there is a problem with empty space on SSDs.
But there is already a solution called TRIM.
If You buy an Intel SSD, You can download a free tool called SSD Toolbox.
This toolbox not only optimizes Your OS with one click, for example disables auto defrag
on that drive, it also can do a manual TRIM job, or create an automated scheudle.
But that is not even nesessary, because Win7 has buildin Trim.
Just my 2p, the booting vid wasn't a really great comparison of raw speed, as it takes you system 30seconds to actually POST before starting to boot, the real times were something like 40seconds vs 15seconds
For those who want a real peformance kick but are put of by the raw price of a full SSD, you could look at the WD Momentus drives, 250, 3300 and 500 gig drives with a small SSD on board, you don't use the SSD itself, the drive learns your most used files and sticks them on there, I have heard of 10x speed increases on these drives (one person reports photoshop going down from a 25 second load to about 3 seconds)
00:46 Jan 15th 2011
antman
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@Rebel
I have been trawling ebay for drives, I think the ones you are referring to are known as hybrid drives. (part SSD part traditional platter).
I've put a bid in on a x64 copy of win7. If I win that (20hours remain) then I will think about a 60GB SSD.
*I'm basing this capacity on the fact that my Vista takes up 11GB. I'm hoping win7 is roughly the same, giving me about 50GB for currently played games.
02:13 Jan 15th 2011
Rebel
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Hi Antman, not sure exactly how much 7 takes up but somewhere between 10-15 would sound about right (I will check but I think my install will have bloated)
Yep the Momentus are hybrid drives, iirc the 250GB drive has a 4GB SSD on it and retails for about 100 squid, they may show up on fleabay, I havn't checked.
If not the samsung F3's are the fastest non SSD's around, a 1TB F3 can be had for 50 squid.
10:02 Feb 8th 2011
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Post edited 10:02 – Feb 8th 2011 by Lorni-1975
In addtion to Olipost my new Playtoy
USB 3.0 from Transcend roundabout 80 € for 500GB HDD and PCMCIA Adapter
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