SSD drives rock

[John Doe]

After 10 months experience with a 32 GB OCZ Vertex (of course
others might be better), and having to revert back to two
different drives... Going back to a Quantum Fireball on a slow
system and feeling the pain was no surprise. But then using my
Raptor on a fast system feels slow too. Waiting for the Windows
desktop to completely load makes it clear. An SSD drive is
definitely a noticeable improvement.

 

[noi ance]

After 10 months experience with a 32 GB OCZ Vertex (of course others
might be better), and having to revert back to two different drives...
Going back to a Quantum Fireball on a slow system and feeling the pain
was no surprise. But then using my Raptor on a fast system feels slow
too. Waiting for the Windows desktop to completely load makes it clear.
An SSD drive is definitely a noticeable improvement.

Sounds like SSDs are a good bet for booting, but how is the performance
when accessing a 300GB-2TB data (D:/) drive? I'd like to put Windows 7
on a 32-64GB SSD with a 300GB+ for other applications and data but how
much improvement would that give get you?

 

[John Doe]

YES AFTER YOU INSTALL THE SSD DRIVE ALL OF YOUR DRIVES RUN FAST AS
THE SSD DRIVE SO PUT YOUR PROGRAMS ON THE BIG SLOW DRIVE BECAUSE THEY
WILL RUN VERY FAST

 

[Chris S.]

YES AFTER YOU INSTALL THE SSD DRIVE ALL OF YOUR DRIVES RUN FAST AS
THE SSD DRIVE SO PUT YOUR PROGRAMS ON THE BIG SLOW DRIVE BECAUSE THEY
WILL RUN VERY FAST

Total Nonsense....

Chris

 

[JediSpork]

I have the 32 gb ssd also. I've been using it for a few months. Very
happy with the speed improvements although a bit cramped for space.

 

[ToolPackinMama]

After 10 months experience with a 32 GB OCZ Vertex (of course
others might be better), and having to revert back to two
different drives... Going back to a Quantum Fireball on a slow
system and feeling the pain was no surprise. But then using my
Raptor on a fast system feels slow too. Waiting for the Windows
desktop to completely load makes it clear. An SSD drive is
definitely a noticeable improvement.

I would like a decent size one. The ones available are kind of skimpy
on the storage space. They are also kind of expensive.

I bought my hubby one of those ASUS Eee PC netbooks with the SSD, and
it's a zippy little machine, but it is only 16 GB.

I just did clean install of Win 7 64, and after I install a browser, a
mail client a couple of utilities and Star Trek Online, I am already
using more than 40 gigs. I am using a second partition to store music
and photos and such.

 

[John Doe]

I would like a decent size one. The ones available are kind of
skimpy on the storage space.
Yup.

I just did clean install of Win 7 64, and after I install a
browser, a mail client a couple of utilities

Utilities? My collection of about 20 utilities (that run from a
folder without installation) uses 26 MB.

and Star Trek Online, I am already using more than 40 gigs.

I am running Windows XP SP3 on a 32 GB SSD. I have room for two
big games (15 GB) with about 5 GB to spare. If I want to play
different big games, I will have to uninstall something. It is
cramped but it is worth it here. Just depends on your needs or
wants.

 

[JediSpork]

On 2/26/2010 1:41 AM, John Doe wrote:

I would like a decent size one.  The ones available are kind of skimpy
on the storage space.  They are also kind of expensive.

You can turn off system restore and reduce the size of your swap file
to save some space.
They have all kinds of tweaks you can do.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/tags.php?tag=ssd+tweaking+optimization

I can fit 2 operating systems, all the programs I need, and whatever
game I'm playing at the time on a 32 gig drive. I use a regular hdd
for media storage.