Is this a good use of an SSD drive?

[Duvie]

First off I am a bit of a newbie to this technology....


Secondly I am not interested in using it as my OS drive. I have some huge apps and I dont have the cash t drop hundreds for a drive big enough....

What I want it about 32gb to store huge work files to help speed up their load times...

Questions...

1) Will I see a huge benefit over loading off of a backup 500gb Sata 2 HDD?

2) Will I still be limited by the fact the app is on a normal drive?

I am looking at about 32gb drive....Perhaps an external if they have them to transfer back and forth from work PC and home PC...Is this possible?

As always....Thanks ahead of time for the helpful members of the community....

 

[ChaiBabbaChai]

You could put an SSD in an external enclosure, like any other drive, but it will be limited by the transfer speed of USB, firewire, or eSATA. With eSATA I get about 100MB/s burst rate and it slowly drops down to a solid 60+MB/s with a WD Black 750GB drive in an enclosure. How large are the files you are working with, and what takes the loading so much time? Is it the transfer of the data or your CPU?

 

[hans007]

e-sata basically is exactly the same as sata so i recommend you do that though usb 3.0 would probalby be decent too.

with usb you have to go through a usb bridge, which wont support TRIM etc.

if you put stuff on the ssd it could work, say you were compiling C++ or something and put it all on the ssd, it'd probably speed it up sure.

 

[Duvie]

I am working with Revit files in the 100-500mb range and then I have to link them together....My commit charge on memory is like 5-6gb for Revit alone. The files take a bit of time to load up...Maybe up to 1-2minutes sometimes.....

I have E-sata on both PCs and even my laptop....

 

[Emulex]

esata can do ncq

 

[taltamir]

it will be immensely easier to give advice if you actually name the app in question.

as far as using it externally... external controllers will cripple your speed. but you can use something like this http://www.amazon.com/Port-eSATA-Bra.../dp/B000YI7M3G
which will ensure max performance even outside the case

I don't think the good SSDs go as low as 32GB, they need a certain level of parallelism. Did you have a specific SSD in mind?