OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD $83 AR/AC at Newegg

[dman]

Originally posted by: Lucifer Lost

Originally posted by: txlonghorn

Originally posted by: shaolin95
So I basically get one of these and install Windows 7 (I dont think I would be able to fit 7 and XP right?)

I don't know about Windows 7, but I just installed a copy of Vista Ultimate on a new build and the OS alone chewed up 25G of disc space (that includes all the saved updates). After installing the essential software (firewall, AV, FireFox, backup utilities, etc.), I have 31G less disc space. That's before any productivity software installation.

Hmmm, I'm using a clean install of Win 7 Ultimate beta on an old 20 gig drive for my HTPC computer. I have a couple browsers, music/video players, and some essential utilities/drivers and I'm running just over 11 gigs.

I think you could run a pretty lean XP and Win7 boot drive with some decent wiggle room on a 30 if you wanted (provided you had a data drive to install any hogs on.)

32bit vers might be in that range, the 64bit with WinSXS uses up a bit more space. Can still fit in 20GB or 30GB but over time, and with Swap and misc stuff 30GB gets used up pretty quick.

 

[gevorg]

Very tempting to put vlite Vista + Office on this Vertex, and the rest on my current raptor.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: sgrinavi

Originally posted by: dmw16
Tempted to make this the OS drive in my file server.

What would be the advantage in a file server? Power savings?

Uh yeah, that's about it...

For the OS drive, yeah. I'm thinking though that even cheap SSDs can be an okay solution for a pure file server (read-only, such as an imaging server) in a high utilization network. What is the "problem" with cheap SSDs? Well, their write speeds go to crap as you "use" it. With a file server meant for just offering static files for multiple simultaneous clients, the drive subsystem would just need fast access times and great read speeds. Where I used to work, the IT department supported nearly a thousand users and we often were re-imaging multiple systems at the same time. Doing one went as fast as 100Mbit could go. Get 3-4 of them going at once and things started to draaaaaaag. An SSD (even using the "crappy" JMicron controller) for such a purpose would probably be a good improvement in performance since it would never have to do what it is the worst at, which is to write small files. It just has to read big ones off to numerous clients.

 

[jonny13]

Just got my drive last night and after flashing to the new 1275 firmware, installed Vista. Only took 17 minutes for Vista to install from start to finish. Didn't get much of a chance to really use it since I was installing other apps/patches, etc, but everything seemed very snappy on it. The only negative would probably be the size. I only have 4 GB left with Vista x64/Office/PowerDVD/Antivirus and other smaller apps.

Overall, it using it felt great and I don't have to listen to the trashing of my old HD anymore, so it works great in a HTPC.

 

[kmmatney]

Would work great in my wife's computer - running Windows XP, along with all of her pictures, work and files, she's only using like 10 GB. Amazing how little space you need when you don't have games or movies on your hard drive. But besides a computer that is just used for web browsing and "work" type stuff, 30 GB is a bit small.

 

[cubeless]

$99 shipped for a couple more hours at zzf...

 

[JBT]

I'm very interested but 30GB just seems too small. Once 60GB is a bit more affordable I will definitely reconsider. I can probably fit my highly accessed items in a 60, I do it now with a 74GB Raptor. 120 would really be ideal but thats way off right now. Maybe X-mas time.

I suppose a 30 would be alright for my laptop...

 

[angry hampster]

This would make for a really nice portable HDD in a firewire/esata connection.

 

[Synomenon]

Originally posted by: cubeless
$99 shipped for a couple more hours at zzf...

$119.

Has a MIR.

 

[Stoneburner]

From what I've read here and other places, SSD's don't help much with XP. Am i misunderstanding something?

 

[bob4432]

i have a core2 series that was in xp and it worked ok, faster at first than my 15k scsi, but then it started the stuttering, so i started to do all the "tricks" and still it stuttered more and more. i took it out. it has a usb2 port on it so it is now a 30GB usb2 drive....

for a lot of stuff it worked very well, but when it would stutter, it would be long stutters, very annoying.

hopefully ocz got it right w/ this new one

 

[hmsrolst]

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
From what I've read here and other places, SSD's don't help much with XP. Am i misunderstanding something?

Not my experience at all. If anything, I've seen more of a quickness improvement with XP than VISTA (which, at least in my systems, tends to be snappier than XP pre-SSD).

 

[Parkre]

NO!!!! All the prices went up!!!

120GB $319 AR is now $415

 

[Parkre]

NM

Mwave $199 no rebates. 60BG

In for one