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eappleto said:
gooood gravy thats tempting....should i pull the trigger??
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If your time to buy is now, indeed you should. I bet the price drop is because of the upcoming 25nm drives from Sandforce, so if you can hold off longer you can get a Vertex 2 for cheaper as the prices are pushed further down, or a newer/faster Sandforce drive.
 
true enough, but longer is referring to like Q1 or Q2 next year, yeah?

also, for giggles, if i WERE to get this, what else should i get with it (aka controller)? I'm gonna go read some first time SSD owners guides because I'm bored and at least its better than staring at a word document till lunch...
 
also I noticed this in Anandtech's new to ssd post

"Regarding Trim

If you are running RAID, any SSD in the actual RAID array will not get Trim commands, so they will be at the mercy of the drive's built-in garbage collection. Some drives are better than others at doing this. If you are running a RAID array on an Intel chipset (ICH10R for example) and you are using the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers (RST version 9.6.x) then any SSD on the controller but NOT part of the actual RAID array will get Trim commands. If you aren't actually running a RAID array, then there's probably no need to install Intel RST."

So if I put these in raid 0 wont my performance decrease some over time without trim??
 
Drives that have GC in their FW will be able to retain performance longer without TRIM whilest in a RAID array than drives that have no GC in their FW. Sandforce drives supposedly have a good GC scheme embedded in their FW. Intel SSDs do not have such instructions in their FW.
 
eappleto said:
true enough, but longer is referring to like Q1 or Q2 next year, yeah?

also, for giggles, if i WERE to get this, what else should i get with it (aka controller)? I'm gonna go read some first time SSD owners guides because I'm bored and at least its better than staring at a word document till lunch...
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You don't need a dedicated RAID controller card for SSD drives. Software RAID should work unless you are talking 8-12 drives or something like that.
 
so having a dedicated controller for raid 0 will have roughly the same performance as onboard? (unless i bought a 6gbps controller for a 6gbps ssd)
 
so I guess its now just depends on how long would I be waiting?

The thing is, I really don't NEED an SSD. I WANT an ssd. I'm addicted to buying computer hardware, what can I say. So if I guess I just need to gauge how long I would be waiting, as a HendrixFan mentioned, for the 25nm?
 
I hear ya about WANTING new computer stuff. I basically pulled the trigger on a SANDFORCE based SSD last week even though I own 2 x 80GB Intels already. I like monkeying around with new technology. One of 2 things usually happens when I get the 'itch for new stuff'--1)I sell what i have and use the $$ towards newer stuff or 2)I use the 'trickle down effect' for the other PCs in my house (wife's or kids' PC) and justify a new purchase because i no longer have that piece of HW in my machine. hehe.

If I have empty HDD slots in my PC or empty SATA ports on my mobo, they NEED to be filled with something. Hey, at least i am not doing drugs with my $$, right? 😉
 
haha I have some stuff to sell regardless, maybe I will use the forum to do that. but yeah....ugh...to wait or not to wait...
 
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Man if i could get that 120GB Vertex 2 that cheap i'd buy two of them, easy. That's half price compared to retail here in Norway...
 
hehe. i was just reading that intel pushed back the g3 release to february 2011. which means everything else cant come out till that point (patents or some such). sooooo I'd have to wait five months before any real price drops occur. also, from what I understand the performance wont move leaps and bounds, mainly the capacity (hence better $/gb)
 
Yeah G3 is next year but what we thought was G3 was just bigger drives at better prices on the 25nm. No major performance update/controller update. The new 25nm is on schedule from what i've read and will be out before christmas.
 
well today is the last day of the deal (good morning btw) and I am hovering over the buy it now button lol. I mean hell, what's $190 over the course of 5 months??....right? lol
 
lol i just ordered it! thanks for being my devil on the shoulder kicking my angel in the balls! woo!! Now I sit and wait...and plan...(can ya tell I'm a planner??)

I will read up, but I guess the process is just install, install windows, profit? What with all this alignment stuff? I know not to defrag it etc...anything else I should know? I gotta find a "so you got your ssd, now what!" thread
 
So which one did you get?


Enable AHCI in BIOS, Disable Indexing on the drive, Disable defrag on drive, and if this is to be used as OS drive, set the pagefile size to a static size for min and max (size is based on how much memory you have installed on machine)
 
Burner27 said:
(size is based on how much memory you have installed on machine)
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Size is NOT based on the amount of memory on the machine, but rather by how much- if any- paging is done.

tcsenter said:
Windows will grow the pagefile as needed but only resets/shrinks it on reboot/restart.

Set minimum pagefile size to 512MB. Maximum to 2GB. Restart. Run your computer in moderately demanding scenarios for a couple hours without rebooting. Check the size of pagefile.sys.

If pagefile.sys has never grown beyond 512MB, there's your answer. If it has grown to the maximum of 2GB, then you need to increase the maximum to something like 4GB and repeat the test.
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FishAk said:
Size is NOT based on the amount of memory on the machine, but rather by how much- if any- paging is done.
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I stand corrected.


But upon initial install of windows, the pagefile is set to the amount of RAM installed. At least on my machine it did.
 
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