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06 September 2009, 01:21 PM

TopBanana

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Intel X25 SSD

I've just installed one of these drives and installed Windows 7 on it, along with the other software I normally use.

The speed diffrence is amazing. Nearly everything is virtually instantaneous. Shame I didn't upgrade earlier.

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06 September 2009, 10:17 PM

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Looking at renewing my computer in the not too distant future, and an SSD will be one of the things on the list. Which model did you go for?

Dave

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07 September 2009, 11:45 AM

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what did you pay for it?

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07 September 2009, 12:15 PM

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what is it? sorry for being dumb!

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07 September 2009, 12:58 PM

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I went for the 80GB G2 (generation 2) Intel X25M. I think it was £170 or so. It comes as 2.5" form factor - you can buy adapters, but I just taped mine down.

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07 September 2009, 06:32 PM

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I use 2x 80GB Gen 1's, they have been fine and flying along for most of this year

Next purchase is 4x 80GB Gen2's for a bit of raid 0 action, much cheaper now

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07 September 2009, 09:39 PM

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i'll be getting one eventually but not be paying the prices there atm

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07 September 2009, 10:31 PM

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what is it? sorry for being dumb!

SSD = Solid State Device. In this case, a *hard drive* made from flash chips.

Very good article here AnandTech: The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD This is the 3rd one so there are links somewhere there for the earlier two.

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08 September 2009, 01:11 PM

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And another article for those interested ... SSD Summer Slam: 12 New 2.5" And 1.8" Drives Rounded-Up : SSDs: All Grown Up

Dave

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08 September 2009, 03:58 PM

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Yup waiting until the technology is fully reliable in these before splashing out, so will stick with my veloci raptor drive until then

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08 September 2009, 08:03 PM

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Splashed out on a 128GB Runcore (PCI-x) for my Asus EEE Netbook, and it's a lot better than HDD.
IBM are now looking at these for storage for their P-Series AIX/UNIX systems for Power 7 next year. Wouldn't be surpirsed if Windows Servers won't incorporate these in the near future as standard.

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10 September 2009, 05:30 PM

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an SSD hard drive has transformed my computer experience. I got the OCZ Vertex and use it as much C drive.

I've also got a 6GB ram disk, so all in all my system flies along now.

It'll be a while before I can replace my data drives - I use a pair of 500GB RAIDed drives to hold all my data like music, video, photos and work files.