Bart
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Ive been waiting a while for size to increase and prices to come down and finally bit the bullit yesterday and bought two of the Samsung 64GB 2.5" SATA-II MLC Solid State Hard Drives.
Let me say, I will never go back to normal hard disks EVER. The difference is simply unreal.
Theres no waiting around for ANYTHING, the programs just load in a click of a button, everything is really snappy and really fast, Its just an unbelieveable difference.
My system so far:
Intel Quad Core Extreme QX9650 3.2ghz
Corsair 8gb 800mhz DDR2 Ram
2 x Samsung 64gb SSD Raid0
2x Samsung Spinpoint F1s (for storage)
Geforce 9800 GTX OCX
XFI f4tal1ty platinum sound card
Vista Ultimate x64 (which installed in just a few minutes)
Needless to say, it goes like stink 
[Edited on 06-03-2009 by Bart]
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_Allan_
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Nice, I'm gonna wait for the capacity to go up and the prices to come down before I get a couple 
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DannyB
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What did you pay for the 9800, I'm still in 2 mind whether to get a 9 series card or go sli on 2 8800gtx's
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Bart
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indeed, I think towards the latter half of they year it shouldnt be too far off a £1 a gig, but I couldnt resist.
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Bart
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go for the 9800s if you wont consider a series on from that.
They are coming down in price now because of the latest cards.
Without question, dont get two 8800s.
I can play Crysis maxed right out without and glitches.
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DannyB
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Hmm, interesting. Going to be building a new system soon so haven't fully made my mind up what to buy.
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Bart
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SSDs all the way. Had I known then what I know now, I would have bought them months back.
£100 for 64gb aint too bad (with the given prices)
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PhilC
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Aren't 8800GTs and 9800GTs the same cards, apart from the smaller architecture, energy efficiency etc?
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Andrew
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Sound 
Personally i don't need for than 120GB so Raid 0 will do the job nicely.
One of my next upgrades!
Could do with this on my SBS 2008 box due to it taking an age to boot everything up.
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Dom
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Until prices come down on SLC drives, i'm going to hold off, and reliability of SSD (especially MLC) has yet to me seen.
Plus you have PRAM technology within a few years, quciker and slower cell degradation.
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drunkenfool
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I got the Asus M2N - SLI Deluxe board, would one of these solid state drives be able to work at full speed/capacity on that? How much of a difference would I see over SATA (im not even sure if its SATA II, hence the question lol)
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Eddie.2k
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Is it easy to install them?
This is mine so far
Processor type: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Duel Core 5200+
Processor speed: 2600 MHz
Memory: 2048 MB
Hard drive: 250 GB
Running Vista Home Basic SP2
NFORCE 590 SLI MOBO, NVIDIA GF 7600GT 256MB
Any comments on making it better?
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Bart
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tbh, you dont treat them any differently to normal hard drive.
Installing an OS is exactly the same way.
In windows you just need to disable a few services (indexing and defrag, since you dont get defragmented files with SSDs)
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xa0s
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I'm planning a big PC build next year so I hope they've progressed a bit by then. I'm gunna chuck tons of money at it as I've always wanted a silly-spec PC.
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Rob_Quads
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Are you comparing like with like i.e. was you old setup a couple of SATA discs in RAID0?
It does look like they are getting there. Want to see something very cool take a look at this video of some raided SSDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&eurl=http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/&feature=player_embedded
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noshua
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Amazing video, geeks no doubt though.
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willay
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good video, very interesting.
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pow
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That video is cool
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Bart
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very interesting infact!
unfortunatly, mine are not quite that quick, but it does want me to get more to add to my array!
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
Amazing video, geeks no doubt though.
More like a very clever advertising group. Geeks are going to be the ones to kick off the SSD market and this sort of promo appeals to them. I know i liked it
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Bart
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£100 for 64gb is about the right price to get things moving.
These are (maybe were) only available through Novatech, since they bought the entire UK stock, and thus no1 else is currently able to sell them.
Any improvement on £100 for 64gb is going to be fab.
I will be truthful, like any normal fresh install, the first time you use it, its unbelieveably fast, like draw droppingly fast. Once you've installed all your apps, added your additional services and programs running in the background it does slow down, like any other normal install.
Ive been running a few of my own tests (program lanches, boot timing, file transfers etc) and in general, I've found everything to be more than twice as fast, i.e everything takes half as long to open.
[Edited on 11-03-2009 by Bart]
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dannymccann
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PC upstairs is still running on IDE, maybe SATA 1  SATA2 feels very very fast to me, and I cant really afford £100 for a HD, I will have to wait another year or 2 before I give them a go (or need them)
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drunkenfool
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Just bought one of these off ebay for £95 with a 2nd chance offer  I cant afford the luxury of 2 in RAID, but it should be quite a bit faster than my current drive
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willay
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report back matt 
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drunkenfool
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I did a clean reinstall of windows about 10 days ago on my SATA drive, so once ive installed the same programs again onto the new drive it should be pretty comparable between the two as not all that much time has gone by for the computer to fill itself up with random shit that slows it down. I'll let you know how I get on
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