spectrum48k

My order finger is itching to buy a 32GB right now.

Anyone got one already ? They rave about them on overclockers. Downside is that faster and faster ones will appear over time (like everthing I suppose)

chrisowe

I might in the future, 32gb is just not big enough at the moment.

spectrum48k

it is if you've got more money than sense like me

...at least for your operating system partition - he says trying to convince himself

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

Still don't sound fast enough - can you run them in RAID 0?


M

kernel

Flash memory as traditionally had a limited number of write cycles, has this somehow been improved for these SS drives?

spectrum48k

Yes , if you have the cash , you can run them in RAID - it has a SATA interface.

spectrum48k

sustained transfer rate of 95.1 MB/sec, write speeds of 74.7 MB/sec, access time <0.1ms

you're right, sustained writes, say a very large project in video editing application, causes the regular hard disk to pull ahead slightly. I can live with that.

basically I'd use it for my windows partition - they say performance is amazing. Boot times halved, etc...

jowl

I was of the understanding that they had and that was a thing of the past.....but I haven't checked up on it in depth.

Not sure that 32gb is large enough - And I intend to RAID 1 my sys partition on the new build.

Got a link to the SS drives?

Iain Young

Components » Hard Drives » Solid State - Overclockers UK

Way too pricey for me atm

jowl

So....

2.5 terabyte of storage or slightly faster 32gb ?



Hmmmmmmm


I think I'll wait a while

spectrum48k

I'm checking out a faster one than the Samsung on overclockers - its an MTRON, 32GB SATA, which is £425 from Japan

Kermit

You are still limited by the transfer rate of the disk controller interface (SATA, EIDE, SCSI, etc).

I evaluated a PCI card that took DIMMS and appeared as a disc - This didnt have the throttling of the disk interface standards - Was fookin quick!

bob269

Get one of these

640GB flash card blows hard drives away | APC Magazine

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

$20k US does sound a little expensive though

It would be cheaper to have several workstations, each one already having loaded a different game. That way you just use the machine that has the software you want, rather than paying 20k for a drive

bob269

I heard more money than sense mentioned