Recent content by Bauss

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    Firmware Updates for SSDs

    Get the 510. I've had mine since they became available, and it's been rock solid, with no firmware updates even issued yet. If there's any SSD that came to market completely stable and ready, it was this one.
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    SATA III SSDs. Worth it?

    Unless you're plugging this into a server. SSDs all offer at least 100 times the IOps of a HDD, way more than needed for ANY desktop user tasks. That's probably why vendors got away from it. There's no further gains to be had with more IOps with our current software usage models. Anyways, If...
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    Help me Chosing SSD

    In terms of performance, both drives are great. That said, the V3 is faster in all aspects except for large file copies. Intel is known to have the most reliable drive, but there is no telling how these new drives will shake out. My guess is that OCZ has closed much of the gap in reliability...
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    How long will 8GB last for gaming?

    I'm not advocating anything. I'm well aware that SSDs still have much higher access latency than RAM. All I'm saying is that I think SSDs will begin to have a larger role in a few specialized applications as they become more popular. Furthermore, this trend won't bode well for RAM as it only...
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    How long will 8GB last for gaming?

    Another thing to consider is that, upto this point, modern OSs and software has been designed for HDDs. Meaning, they were designed to avoid accessing the drive as much as possible. Instead, they've cached more data to RAM. As SSDs become more mainstream, developers will start to be able to...
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    Bought an Intel 510 and C300, have a Marvell 6gb port.. help decide..

    For gaming, they'll both be fine. If you're doing any copying in the drive, then go for 510. Otherwise, go C300.
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    G2, G3, 510 or Vertex 2/3 in Macbook Pro

    As drives have saturated SATA2 for a while now, you'll see zero performance difference between these drives. If you are thinking of going SATA3 at one point, I'd suggest getting the 510 or V3.
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    Intel 320 SSD with MBP

    Anything modern will do, but if you want more specific advice, I'd personally look to this when choosing: 1. Choose your capacity of choice 2. SATA2 or SATA3? - If SATA2, The cheapest of these (Intel G2, Intel 320, Intel 510, C300, m4, V2, V3) - If SATA3: 3. Is price a HUGE concern...
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    Terrible random speeds on 510/are game files compressible?

    Oh :D I guess I got a little too curious there :D Yeah, I've had a gripe with most SSD reviewers for months now. They all seem to miss the point somewhat... Random performance IS great to have. But these days, so much of it goes unused that it shouldn't be much of a consideration when...
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    Intel 320 SSD with MBP

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1125400 Seems like alot to me. I tried it about 3 weeks ago, and haven't seen any instability yet.
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    Terrible random speeds on 510/are game files compressible?

    Hmm... Not that I don't believe your personal observations, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how you can come away unimpressed by ANY SSD's performance. Here's why: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/830-12/comparatif-ssd-2011-crucial-m4-ocz-vertex-3-intel-ssd-510-320.html (FRENCH) Look...
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    How spoiled are people with SSD's?

    I believe most of the reliability issues are pretty much non-issues now. Write amplification on modern SSDs is likely a lot better now that TRIM and garbage collection are now standard. In addition, return rates on SSDs aren't significantly higher than HDDs at all. Intel's is 0.59% (IIRC) That's...
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    Intel 320 SSD with MBP

    Dude, your Mac does support TRIM. More importantly, so does that SSD. Here's how to enable it for Macs. http://www.groths.org/?p=308
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    PageFile, 8+GB Ram, SSD Speed etc...

    lawl. This. To the OP: I'm not sure what you'd expect to find from that kind of test. SSDs are so much more capable of dealing with random reads and writes while doing other things that the odd page out during a test will not have any measurable impact. Disabling the pagefile was a trick...
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    How spoiled are people with SSD's?

    I agree with you. Those who have a computer on it's last legs will probably see a nice little speed boost, but not as much as a cutting edge computer, where the bottleneck is even more pronounced. If all you do is browsing, light productivity tasks, and media consumption, then, even though an...