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From: Matthew on 28 Jun 2010 10:13
Now before I ask I would like to point out that I've been busy for a while
and haven't kept up with this board or the most current technology like I
normally do...

When SSD's first came out on an affordable retail level just about everyone
in this group advised against using them in anything at all... has the
technology changed or improved since then? Because it looks like quite a few
of you are recomending them as system drives.


From: Man-wai Chang on 28 Jun 2010 10:27
> When SSD's first came out on an affordable retail level just about everyone
> in this group advised against using them in anything at all... has the
> technology changed or improved since then? Because it looks like quite a few
> of you are recomending them as system drives.

They are still rather expensive, have small capacity and not very
durable for personal use.

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From: TVeblen on 28 Jun 2010 11:49
On 6/28/2010 10:13 AM, Matthew wrote:
> Now before I ask I would like to point out that I've been busy for a while
> and haven't kept up with this board or the most current technology like I
> normally do...
>
> When SSD's first came out on an affordable retail level just about everyone
> in this group advised against using them in anything at all... has the
> technology changed or improved since then? Because it looks like quite a few
> of you are recomending them as system drives.
>
>
Many issues they were having have been worked out in the second version
models from Intel and others, mostly the use of TRIM and Garbage
Collection technologies.
There is little to risk if you are using a modern OS (Windows 7, Snow
Leopard, etc.)
Trying to get these to work on older OS's takes some extra work.
From: fwibbler on 28 Jun 2010 12:26
"Matthew" <billgates(a)microsoft.com> wrote:

> Now before I ask I would like to point out that I've been busy for a while

> and haven't kept up with this board or the most current technology like I
> normally do...
>
> When SSD's first came out on an affordable retail level just about
everyone
> in this group advised against using them in anything at all... has the
> technology changed or improved since then? Because it looks like quite a
few
> of you are recomending them as system drives.
>
I have been using 2 OCZ Vertex drives in a RAID 0 array ever since they were
released.
They have been fine from day one and are still fine. And fast!

Currently, avoid anything that uses a Jmicron controller. Even the latest
Jmicron 612 controller is not very impressive (its not nearly as poor as the
original 602 though) and is used for 'cheap' SSDs.

The current champion controller is from Sandforce.
Buy a SSD with one of these inside and you shouldn't go far wrong.
These come close to the maximum speed of a SATA2 interface.

The OCZ Vertex2 uses it but there are others too.
Read reviews.

Currently I'm just waiting for one of these:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3788/oczs-revodrive-pcie-ssd-preview-an-affordable-pcie-ssd

Needs a PCI-E x4 slot though.

Cheers!

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From: John Doe on 28 Jun 2010 15:16
Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet gmail.com> wrote:

>> When SSD's first came out on an affordable retail level just
>> about everyone in this group advised against using them in
>> anything at all... has the technology changed or improved since
>> then? Because it looks like quite a few of you are recomending
>> them as system drives.
>
> They are still rather expensive, have small capacity

You misspelled "I don't have one". Price for size is a single
issue, not two separate issues.

> and not very durable for personal use.

Huh?
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