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nicey=GCHQ=
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Post subject: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops.  Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:10 pm |
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:22 pm |
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what's the performance difference between this and the more expensive ones? i doubt the only difference will be the storage space ...  either way though, cheaper is good 
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:37 pm |
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Sounds good , but the gf will kill me if I buy anything else for my PC anytime soon , maybe next year  _________________ 
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:36 pm |
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Tossers, just after I buy one from them too
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gemma=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:25 pm |
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Extolerance=GCHQ= wrote: Tossers, just after I buy one from them too Some times you are the windscreen and sometimes you are the fly.
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:03 pm |
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40 gigs is just too small, really need 120 gig minumum nowadays
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:16 pm |
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Extolerance=GCHQ= wrote: Tossers, just after I buy one from them too They knew. They held off on the price cut until you bought one, something to do with a study on 'Heart Disease and Stress in the Scottish Male'.  _________________  The Pancreas of S.T.F.U. | Never take life too seriously - nobody gets out alive anyway. Disco_jim: um..... I have no excuse. | Chips: Thank the Beef | Rev Dr: Beef, I think i wee'd a little
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:28 pm |
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So if you have a 40GB SSD for your OS and say a 500Gig normal for everything else will that decrease loading time for windows?
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:37 pm |
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yes
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:51 pm |
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Caspius=GCHQ= wrote: So if you have a 40GB SSD for your OS and say a 500Gig normal for everything else will that decrease loading time for windows? Yup I load all the OS crap onto the SSD along with games I'm currently playing (other than small demand games) - Everything else goes on the normal sata drive. If I want to play a game or stop playing a game then I just move them between the drives. _________________ [SNIGG] Sniggerdly | Ask me about how awesome I am at EvE |
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:04 pm |
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40GB is a bit small for Windows these days  _________________ The Pancreas of S.T.F.U. | Never take life too seriously - nobody gets out alive anyway. Disco_jim: um..... I have no excuse. | Chips: Thank the Beef | Rev Dr: Beef, I think i wee'd a little
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:09 pm |
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LeBeourfCurtaine wrote: 40GB is a bit small for Windows these days Aye that was what I was thinking, although my win64 is only 20 gigs at the moment. A few updates and I bet that won't last long. _________________
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:15 am |
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| it is I! Diabetes man! |
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SO...WHAT ABOUT RAID 10 TO SSD? AS IN READ/WRITE NO DIFFERENCE... OR LITTLE? NOT THE INITIAL BOOT...... BUT FROM WHEN YOU CLICK ' OPERATING SYTEM TO LOAD' THEN.... FROM WHEN WINDOWS LOADED.... HOW ABOUT STARTING A GAME..... SAY BATTLEFIELD BAD COMPANY 2... WIL IT IMPROVE MAP LOADING????  _________________ Went to a zoo, they only had one animal there, a dog............. It was a shitzu.... I’z leakin… bring amberlamps
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:19 pm |
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download sisoft sandra and benchmark your RAID for me
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Post subject: Re: ssd prices set to drop... intel announce price drops. Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:32 am |
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This was ALWAYS the case, remember?  For those who weren't around, 1Tb hard drives were phenomenally expensive when they first came out. The same with SSD's. For those who bought now - congrats, your purchase/s have contributed to the R&D for this to be lower price  (Thanks Extol!  ) Transfer rate on an SSD is not in the SAME BALLPARK as a mechanical hard drive today. You would be faster with 10k RPM hard drives but not as close. I've heard reports of Win 7 ultimate booting in 6 seconds from the time the pc is turned on  You would be lucky to get 15 secs or more with a mechanical hard drive. And that's the other thing - hard drives are mechanical, SSD's aren't. So no more disk spindle motors failing, platters going defective, etc... it will just be another piece of electronic hardware. As always with new technology, NEVER buy first generation and check the specs and performance from others before buying yourself 
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