when will performance SSD come out for desktop gamers?

[Taewlee]

when will performance SSD come out for desktop gamers?

they are out now for laptops from samsung, but anyone know if there's a SSD raptor killer coming out soon? i was thinking about buying the 10k rpm WD but new news of others making their own ssd makes me believe they will all go SSD soon.

 

[myocardia]

All SSD's are Raptor killers. Of course, with their prices: link, they're also roughly 10x as expensive per GB. But, I say get one, and tell us whether it was worth the cost.😀

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: myocardia
All SSD's are Raptor killers. Of course, with their prices: link, they're also roughly 10x as expensive per GB. But, I say get one, and tell us whether it was worth the cost.😀

Wow I didn't even know Newegg sold Solid State Hard Drives and they are starting to soon maybe be afford. :Q

Wow plus soon 64 and 128 GB Solid State Hard Drive! Thats awesome!

 

[DrMrLordX]

Sadly, all those drives are 1.8 inch drives intended for laptops. Well, except for this . . .

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16896131003

I don't know if that will improve storage performance, but it should go well with the porn NewEgg sells.

 

[ribbon13]

Never.

Read that again. Sorry. SSDs are for extreme I/Ops, in read-intensive enviroments. NAND flash has a limited lifetime. That is to say, it's like a chalkboard. You can read from it all you want, but you can only write to it so many times. For a laptop it makes sense. most productivity done on the go is light text work. Games... are intense and large.

If you want more performance:
Step 1: Get a RAID HBA.. If you balk at that price, then you really should clear thoughts of SSDs out of your mind. But if you're going through all of this anyway, get the middle brother

Step 2: Next thing you do is enable write-back cache. That means a battery backup unit

Step 3: Next... you pimp this bitch ride to the max with 2GB of DDR2-667 ECC

Step 4: Population needs housing It's nice to have neighbors. Get two.

Step 5: Get ten.

Eight in RAID6 with two hotspares gives you 3TiB (2790GB), and an absolute minimum transfer rate of 240MB/s, roughly four times faster than the minimum a Raptor 150. Of course since hard drives start at the outside of the disk, and that is spread out over eight drives, most of the time your performance will probably be near max STR the whole time. For an array like that, it should be around 584MB/s, six and a half times the Raptors's max STR of 88.3MB/s. An STR which is doesn't keep long. A full all-in-cache hit on your array will yield around 1600MB/s.