TRIM Drives. Help a cheap bastard!

[thatsright]

Hi Guys, Let me get right to the point:

-Building a new rig with Win7 32Bit/i7-920 CPU/6GB Ram/MSI X58 Pro mobo
-I do not game.
-95% of usage is Photoshop
-Would like to get AT LEASt a 60+GB TRIM based SSD.

1. Can I get one of these drives for around/under $250, with good speeds? If I do get one, the drive will contain Win7, Photoshop and the rest will be for camera pictures I dump straight to the SSD to work on. Everything else will go on a SATA spindle drive.

2. Would Photoshop work better/worse on a SSD as compared to a SATA 3G HD 7200rpm and 32MB cache?

If I cant get a SSD, then I'll just install on SATA3G spindle HD.

 

[KenAF]

1. Can I get one of these drives for around/under $250, with good speeds? If I do get one, the drive will contain Win7, Photoshop and the rest will be for camera pictures I dump straight to the SSD to work on. Everything else will go on a SATA spindle drive

Look for the Intel 80GB G2 on ebay.

Many people purchased them for $219 on Black Friday and are reselling them for $230-$260.

2. Would Photoshop work better/worse on a SSD as compared to a SATA 3G HD 7200rpm and 32MB cache?

Much better.

 

[Majic 7]

Only two in stock at 248. http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop...300000U0123_BBC4878P.shtml&order_id=994801931 They also have 5 retails at 254. Don't have anything on back order for some reason. These are 80GB Intels. Page 23 0n hardrives.

 

[dfuze]

Curious, why 32 bit windows and 6 gig of ram?

 

[Voo]

I'm wondering about the 32bit too.

Anyways..
But one thing you should notice: If all you're doing is working on one image in photoshop at a time, that file should already be in the RAM so I don't think you would get much improvements with a SSD.


Not seen any benchmarks for Photoshop, so it's just guessing, but it seems rather logical.

 

[PUN]

I'm wondering about the 32bit too.

Anyways..
But one thing you should notice: If all you're doing is working on one image in photoshop at a time, that file should already be in the RAM so I don't think you would get much improvements with a SSD.


Not seen any benchmarks for Photoshop, so it's just guessing, but it seems rather logical.

Yes voo is correct.
You will not see much performance difference between the spindle and SSD based on your usage. Photoshop program itself does load faster but once the image is up and running, you won't see any difference.

 

[thatsright]

Curious, why 32 bit windows and 6 gig of ram?

Ha ha... Well this shows how long its been since I've built a new system. I want to use 6GB of ram and thought I could do that with 32 Bit?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but running Photoshop in 64Bit mode will disable many of the plugins I use. I think you also have the option of opening PSP in 32 Bit mode, on a Win7 64Bit box.

 

[Voo]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but running Photoshop in 64Bit mode will disable many of the plugins I use. I think you also have the option of opening PSP in 32 Bit mode, on a Win7 64Bit box.

If you use a 32 bit OS, every user application will use only 2gb (2gb kernel/2gb user space) - though you can set a flag to use 3gb.. but the application has to be aware of it, so I'd better not try that.

A 32bit programm on a 64bit OS also won't adress more than 4gb of the memory, since it can't adress more. But yes you can install a 32bit version of photoshop in Win7 x64.


Not sure about your addons, I didn't have any problems with the 64bit Photoshop version, but I'm not using that many add-ons to begin with..

 

[thatsright]

If you use a 32 bit OS, every user application will use only 2gb (2gb kernel/2gb user space) - though you can set a flag to use 3gb.. but the application has to be aware of it, so I'd better not try that.

A 32bit programm on a 64bit OS also won't adress more than 4gb of the memory, since it can't adress more. But yes you can install a 32bit version of photoshop in Win7 x64.


Not sure about your addons, I didn't have any problems with the 64bit Photoshop version, but I'm not using that many add-ons to begin with..

Well I may need to make this compromise of installing Win 7 64Bit and 32 Bit version of Photoshop. I have one PSP plugin (Silver Efx Pro for Black and White conversions) that won't work with the 64Bit ed. of Photoshop. That alone will make me forgo the 64Bit PSP. That being said, if I can get PSP to use 4 GB of memory, then I can live with that. Should never really use more than this in PSP anyway.