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    Unusual SSD use - recommendations?

    Part true. But it might not have been, you can only say what would be the case once informed. The insight and links are also useful for future.
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    Unusual SSD use - recommendations?

    Thanks - useful! The consensus seems to be that you'd expect a small hit on reads, and a 1/2 - 2/3 speed on writes, if the data is incompressible. The next page of the same review you linked matches this well, and gives results for exactly the needed accesses with compressible/incompressible...
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    Unusual SSD use - recommendations?

    To stay on-topic, can I skip that for now? I'll explain after the SSD inquiry is done. 4 word answer - "large scale commercial modeling".
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    Unusual SSD use - recommendations?

    Are you thinking of SandForce/Intel here, or some other? (The C300 is aggressive on some stats but reviews suggest the 60GB model may be a lower performer in raw speed terms and less suited for this kind of use). Can you show me a bit more clearly what to look for in existing reviews when...
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    Unusual SSD use - recommendations?

    That last bit is what I wasn't clear about from the various performance reviews. Which reviews/tests/stats are the giveaways on this point?
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    Unusual SSD use - recommendations?

    A year ago I agree, Intel would be the obvious choice. But in this case, the SSD is heavily overprovisioned anyway (30 - 60 GB for a maximum 6 GB swap file) and longevity isn't an issue as I don't expect to need it for more than 1.5 years. Raw speed for handling incompressible pagefile type use...
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    Unusual SSD use - recommendations?

    Hi, I'm looking for recommendations for a 30 - 60 GB SSD ($60 - $125) to hold the paging file on my win7 workstation. The machine is quad core and has high RAM use (mainly due to heavy browser use, 1GB+ Excel documents, and multiple VMware virtual machines). It handles sensitive data so...
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    SSD reviews - compressed data stats as standard

    SSD's (Sandforce) are now using on-board compression. Over time that's likely to become standard (competition, write amplification etc). Different SSD controllers will have different compression handling but they will all use compression over time, if only to compete with Sandforce. Most SSD...
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    Torqx or Intel X25-M....?

    Sadly 64-80GB SLC isn't an option for me (way out of budget). I figure that MLC with a good reputation for manufacturer's quality, or a long warranty, will be my best way to go. It's a system volume only so if it falls over, it's not going to take any data with it. The VMs themselves are on a...
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    Torqx or Intel X25-M....?

    It's an active computer running hundreds of network connections, probably lots of disk and file access. All network traffic and all file access is scanned. So my impression is that software is probably doing a lot of work. I don't know exactly how much system drive access it translates into, but...
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    Torqx or Intel X25-M....?

    I'm switching my main drive to SSD, and I'm pretty much narrowed down to Torqx 64GB or Intel X25-M 80GB. Input before I spend would help! System & use: XP 64, 8GB ram, quad core Q6600. SSD would be a system drive only. User files and any page file would all be on a separate drive and...