ot: anyone have experience with SSD’s?

[Coronita]

I already searched the typical tech blogs.. I wanted a third opinion from a few pig geeks around here. I was just curious if anyone is using or has researched anything about solid state drives?

If you are using one, what performance numbers are you seeing over traditional disk? Have you experienced any reliability issues? I’m hoping they offer 3-4x performance above traditional 2.5 drives in a laptop. Need to figure out creative ways to speed up build times on a laptop (and I’m being disk limited, not processor limited).

[sdsubie]

Howdy FLU,

I read this blog every day, but don’t post very often. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with SSD’s in Apple’s newer laptops, both in the ones that you can configure it to ship with, and in upgrading conventional hard drives to SSD’s. There is a pretty good performance gain going to an SSD drive, even over a 7200RPM drive. OS boot times are roughly cut in half, operation inside the OS is also snappier.

Reliability has been absolutely great so far (knock on wood). Though my hands on experience is limited to the rebranded Samsung’s that ship with CTO Apple laptops, Intel, and Kingston SSD’s.

I think a SSD might be a good answer for what you are looking to do, build times that are being limited by disk.

Hope that helps.

[sdsubie]

Howdy FLU,

I read this blog every day, but don’t post very often. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with SSD’s in Apple’s newer laptops, both in the ones that you can configure it to ship with, and in upgrading conventional hard drives to SSD’s. There is a pretty good performance gain going to an SSD drive, even over a 7200RPM drive. OS boot times are roughly cut in half, operation inside the OS is also snappier.

Reliability has been absolutely great so far (knock on wood). Though my hands on experience is limited to the rebranded Samsung’s that ship with CTO Apple laptops, Intel, and Kingston SSD’s.

I think a SSD might be a good answer for what you are looking to do, build times that are being limited by disk.

Hope that helps.

[sdsubie]

Howdy FLU,

I read this blog every day, but don’t post very often. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with SSD’s in Apple’s newer laptops, both in the ones that you can configure it to ship with, and in upgrading conventional hard drives to SSD’s. There is a pretty good performance gain going to an SSD drive, even over a 7200RPM drive. OS boot times are roughly cut in half, operation inside the OS is also snappier.

Reliability has been absolutely great so far (knock on wood). Though my hands on experience is limited to the rebranded Samsung’s that ship with CTO Apple laptops, Intel, and Kingston SSD’s.

I think a SSD might be a good answer for what you are looking to do, build times that are being limited by disk.

Hope that helps.

[sdsubie]

Howdy FLU,

I read this blog every day, but don’t post very often. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with SSD’s in Apple’s newer laptops, both in the ones that you can configure it to ship with, and in upgrading conventional hard drives to SSD’s. There is a pretty good performance gain going to an SSD drive, even over a 7200RPM drive. OS boot times are roughly cut in half, operation inside the OS is also snappier.

Reliability has been absolutely great so far (knock on wood). Though my hands on experience is limited to the rebranded Samsung’s that ship with CTO Apple laptops, Intel, and Kingston SSD’s.

I think a SSD might be a good answer for what you are looking to do, build times that are being limited by disk.

Hope that helps.

[sdsubie]

Howdy FLU,

I read this blog every day, but don’t post very often. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with SSD’s in Apple’s newer laptops, both in the ones that you can configure it to ship with, and in upgrading conventional hard drives to SSD’s. There is a pretty good performance gain going to an SSD drive, even over a 7200RPM drive. OS boot times are roughly cut in half, operation inside the OS is also snappier.

Reliability has been absolutely great so far (knock on wood). Though my hands on experience is limited to the rebranded Samsung’s that ship with CTO Apple laptops, Intel, and Kingston SSD’s.

I think a SSD might be a good answer for what you are looking to do, build times that are being limited by disk.

Hope that helps.

[an]

I’m sure you did your research flu. I don’t have first hand experience with it yet, but I’ve seen enough benchmark to see that it easily beat the Raptor drive, and that’s a 10k RPM drive.

I’m seriously considering getting one as my boot drive for my PC. There seem to be a huge performance difference between the different brand too, so watch out for the cheap ones.

[an]

I’m sure you did your research flu. I don’t have first hand experience with it yet, but I’ve seen enough benchmark to see that it easily beat the Raptor drive, and that’s a 10k RPM drive.

I’m seriously considering getting one as my boot drive for my PC. There seem to be a huge performance difference between the different brand too, so watch out for the cheap ones.

[an]

I’m sure you did your research flu. I don’t have first hand experience with it yet, but I’ve seen enough benchmark to see that it easily beat the Raptor drive, and that’s a 10k RPM drive.

I’m seriously considering getting one as my boot drive for my PC. There seem to be a huge performance difference between the different brand too, so watch out for the cheap ones.

[an]

I’m sure you did your research flu. I don’t have first hand experience with it yet, but I’ve seen enough benchmark to see that it easily beat the Raptor drive, and that’s a 10k RPM drive.

I’m seriously considering getting one as my boot drive for my PC. There seem to be a huge performance difference between the different brand too, so watch out for the cheap ones.

[an]

I’m sure you did your research flu. I don’t have first hand experience with it yet, but I’ve seen enough benchmark to see that it easily beat the Raptor drive, and that’s a 10k RPM drive.

I’m seriously considering getting one as my boot drive for my PC. There seem to be a huge performance difference between the different brand too, so watch out for the cheap ones.

[Coronita]

Thanks guys. Well, I’m debating if this is going to help me. Because my understanding is read is very fast, but the write isn’t as such. And doing builds mean doing a lot of writes…So I was curious if anyone does things like that routinely rip movie/audio files to these SSD, and see how that stacks up versus traditional drives.

[Coronita]

Thanks guys. Well, I’m debating if this is going to help me. Because my understanding is read is very fast, but the write isn’t as such. And doing builds mean doing a lot of writes…So I was curious if anyone does things like that routinely rip movie/audio files to these SSD, and see how that stacks up versus traditional drives.

[Coronita]

Thanks guys. Well, I’m debating if this is going to help me. Because my understanding is read is very fast, but the write isn’t as such. And doing builds mean doing a lot of writes…So I was curious if anyone does things like that routinely rip movie/audio files to these SSD, and see how that stacks up versus traditional drives.

[Coronita]

Thanks guys. Well, I’m debating if this is going to help me. Because my understanding is read is very fast, but the write isn’t as such. And doing builds mean doing a lot of writes…So I was curious if anyone does things like that routinely rip movie/audio files to these SSD, and see how that stacks up versus traditional drives.

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