2008, the year of the SSD...
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2008, the year of the SSD...
It appears the this year will see the release of numerous "affordable" SSDs by many different manufacturers. So how many SPC users plan to ditch your mechanical monstrosities to go Solid State (at least on your system drive)?
Myself, I just bought a half terrabyte of Samsung goodness, a HD501LJ to go with my HD321KJ, and don't plan on wasting anymore hard earned cash on an extravogant SSD.
All though I am tempted to see what it would be like to have a large RAID array of these somewhat slower devices.
Myself, I just bought a half terrabyte of Samsung goodness, a HD501LJ to go with my HD321KJ, and don't plan on wasting anymore hard earned cash on an extravogant SSD.
All though I am tempted to see what it would be like to have a large RAID array of these somewhat slower devices.
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I'm thinking this will be the year for me. The 100GB Hitachi drive in my laptop is getting awfully crowded, and there are a few different 128GB SSD offerings to choose from now. The big question is do I replace my current 3 year old laptop and get a SATA unit, or keep the laptop and go PATA. Still waiting to see what products become available on the AMD Puma platform.
The solution I've been heading towards is using a small NAS box over gigabit ethernet for most storage (with a 3.5" traditional drive in the NAS) and using CF as local hard drive(s) in the computer.
Already moved most data over to the NAS, and am very happy with it so far. Can't hear it from its spot across the room behind a desk, sitting on a carpet. I'm using the Buffalo Linkstation Pro.
Am still working on getting CF hard drives set up as I like, if succeed, will post about it sometime.
Already moved most data over to the NAS, and am very happy with it so far. Can't hear it from its spot across the room behind a desk, sitting on a carpet. I'm using the Buffalo Linkstation Pro.
Am still working on getting CF hard drives set up as I like, if succeed, will post about it sometime.
In Windows 2000/XP, is pretty easy. Once set up properly, just have to retype password in if reboot, first time use each network drive since rebooted. Probably don't need to do anything if you don't use security. And there might be a way to make user name and passwords for NAS and Windows the same, to avoid retyping--I haven't tried.
Overall the Linkstation Pro has been relatively easy to set up and has just worked well without hassles.
I haven't tried in Linux yet though. Think I saw a comment that this NAS is harder to work with in Linux. But maybe a different brand/model would be easier.
Overall the Linkstation Pro has been relatively easy to set up and has just worked well without hassles.
I haven't tried in Linux yet though. Think I saw a comment that this NAS is harder to work with in Linux. But maybe a different brand/model would be easier.
I really don't think SSDs are intended for desktop use, they will be targeting the mobile market. We may never see 1TB SSDs because they should be replaced with a better technology before that.sanse wrote:it will take some more time before we see affordable 1tb ssd's.
and in the meantime the data-space-hunger will keep growing and the mechanical drive people don't want to be out of business.
so it will not take long before we see 2tb, 4tb even 10tb hdd's
When there is an affordable harddrive, faster than my current Raptor, I'm going to switch to that HDD as my primary harddrive, and then have a 2nd drive like one of the the WD Green Power 5400 rpm harddrives for storage of movies, mp3 and so on that doesn't require a fast HDD.
I think I want an SSD which is at least 64 GB, and costs less than $350 USD, while still fast enough to kill a Raptor. Then I'll buy a completely silent (yay!) SSD for sure!
I think I want an SSD which is at least 64 GB, and costs less than $350 USD, while still fast enough to kill a Raptor. Then I'll buy a completely silent (yay!) SSD for sure!
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8 GB is OK.
Why is everyone waiting for the larger sizes?
I just upgraded to an 8GB drive that I use for XP, and all of my apps. (See viewtopic.php?t=45763 . I had been using a 2 GB SSD system with 98SE). It runs the system just fine and works well for surfing, working, office, and streaming audio over USB to my sound boxes and stereo.
I plug in USB storage when I need to deal with vido, large music libraries, photos etc...
Why do some folks need 32 GB or more just to run their system?
I just upgraded to an 8GB drive that I use for XP, and all of my apps. (See viewtopic.php?t=45763 . I had been using a 2 GB SSD system with 98SE). It runs the system just fine and works well for surfing, working, office, and streaming audio over USB to my sound boxes and stereo.
I plug in USB storage when I need to deal with vido, large music libraries, photos etc...
Why do some folks need 32 GB or more just to run their system?
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Depends on what you plan to do with the system, 8GB wouldn't cut it for modern gaming. I have a few games I play so I'd want at least 32GB to make sure I have enough room for them and then a bit more. I agree though, for a web browsing box 8GB should be very adequate. But I use my PC for a bit more than that.
Re: 8 GB is OK.
16GB would be fine for my system drive on my home system. My work laptop would need at least a 32GB drive, though (winxp+office+msdn suite+adobe suite... 13GB in program files; 5GB in windows folder; 2GB for page file; 2GB for hibernate file; 1GB in ms help/adobe folders hidden away in documents-and-settings).ist.martin wrote:Why do some folks need 32 GB or more just to run their system?
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The other thing that can very quickly add up is temp files. I do audio editing and it's amazing how quickly gigabytes at a time can get eaten up... 32 gb would be needed for my system as a minimum.
Also, for wear levelling to work properly I assume you'd want to have lots of free space on the drive anyway?
Also, for wear levelling to work properly I assume you'd want to have lots of free space on the drive anyway?
http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/mobi/
I'm giving some serious thought to buying one of these. $725 for 32GB of silent, super fast storage goodness. With the ridiculously cheap $US it almost seems like a bargain. Almost.
I'm giving some serious thought to buying one of these. $725 for 32GB of silent, super fast storage goodness. With the ridiculously cheap $US it almost seems like a bargain. Almost.
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Thanks for the info. I was wondering why the CONSUMER MOBI 3000 was more expensive than the PRO MSD 6000 since their specs are identical. The answer I received from the person selling them was that the MOBI had slightly better RAID compatiblity and newer firmware revisions. Hardly worth $125. Unfortunately I found a European supplier that only sells the MOBI drives.
Probably going to place an order for either a 16 or 32GB MOBI soon.
Probably going to place an order for either a 16 or 32GB MOBI soon.
Re: 8 GB is OK.
How about dual or trippelboot ? XP+Vista+Linux, do you think you get them on 8 gb ? think againist.martin wrote:Why is everyone waiting for the larger sizes?
I just upgraded to an 8GB drive that I use for XP, and all of my apps. (See viewtopic.php?t=45763 . I had been using a 2 GB SSD system with 98SE). It runs the system just fine and works well for surfing, working, office, and streaming audio over USB to my sound boxes and stereo.
I plug in USB storage when I need to deal with vido, large music libraries, photos etc...
Why do some folks need 32 GB or more just to run their system?
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I didn't realize this, thanks for letting us know. I thought I had read the only difference between the two was that MOBI came in a retail package, whereas MSD 6000 is OEM. I guess this was incorrect, though.Moogles wrote:Thanks for the info. I was wondering why the CONSUMER MOBI 3000 was more expensive than the PRO MSD 6000 since their specs are identical. The answer I received from the person selling them was that the MOBI had slightly better RAID compatiblity and newer firmware revisions. Hardly worth $125. Unfortunately I found a European supplier that only sells the MOBI drives.
Probably going to place an order for either a 16 or 32GB MOBI soon.
hmsrolst: I'd very much like to read about your thoughts on the drive.
Posted a mini-review here: viewtopic.php?p=390505#390505frostedflakes wrote: hmsrolst: I'd very much like to read about your thoughts on the drive.