ot: anyone have experience with SSD’s?

[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.

[dbapig]

Have you checked out this site

http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SSD-Overview.html

If you must work on a laptop and budget is not an issue, I recommend SSD. The best part of using SSD is being able to literally toss the laptop around WHILE the HD IO is busy. Come to think of it, I see many people do that to laptops with conventional HDs, and they wonder why their HDs fail so often/early.

But anyhow, if $$$ is not an issue, go for it.

[dbapig]

Have you checked out this site

http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SSD-Overview.html

If you must work on a laptop and budget is not an issue, I recommend SSD. The best part of using SSD is being able to literally toss the laptop around WHILE the HD IO is busy. Come to think of it, I see many people do that to laptops with conventional HDs, and they wonder why their HDs fail so often/early.

But anyhow, if $$$ is not an issue, go for it.

[dbapig]

Have you checked out this site

http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SSD-Overview.html

If you must work on a laptop and budget is not an issue, I recommend SSD. The best part of using SSD is being able to literally toss the laptop around WHILE the HD IO is busy. Come to think of it, I see many people do that to laptops with conventional HDs, and they wonder why their HDs fail so often/early.

But anyhow, if $$$ is not an issue, go for it.

[dbapig]

Have you checked out this site

http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SSD-Overview.html

If you must work on a laptop and budget is not an issue, I recommend SSD. The best part of using SSD is being able to literally toss the laptop around WHILE the HD IO is busy. Come to think of it, I see many people do that to laptops with conventional HDs, and they wonder why their HDs fail so often/early.

But anyhow, if $$$ is not an issue, go for it.

[dbapig]

Have you checked out this site

http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SSD-Overview.html

If you must work on a laptop and budget is not an issue, I recommend SSD. The best part of using SSD is being able to literally toss the laptop around WHILE the HD IO is busy. Come to think of it, I see many people do that to laptops with conventional HDs, and they wonder why their HDs fail so often/early.

But anyhow, if $$$ is not an issue, go for it.

[Anonymous]

flu,

did you look at sas drives(you should be able to run them over a sata port)? they run at 15000rpm.

even before going to sas or ssd can you try raid 0 w/ 2 or more sata drives? or for more protection raid10 w/ 4 drives?

[Anonymous]

flu,

did you look at sas drives(you should be able to run them over a sata port)? they run at 15000rpm.

even before going to sas or ssd can you try raid 0 w/ 2 or more sata drives? or for more protection raid10 w/ 4 drives?

[Anonymous]

flu,

did you look at sas drives(you should be able to run them over a sata port)? they run at 15000rpm.

even before going to sas or ssd can you try raid 0 w/ 2 or more sata drives? or for more protection raid10 w/ 4 drives?

[Anonymous]

flu,

did you look at sas drives(you should be able to run them over a sata port)? they run at 15000rpm.

even before going to sas or ssd can you try raid 0 w/ 2 or more sata drives? or for more protection raid10 w/ 4 drives?

[Anonymous]

flu,

did you look at sas drives(you should be able to run them over a sata port)? they run at 15000rpm.

even before going to sas or ssd can you try raid 0 w/ 2 or more sata drives? or for more protection raid10 w/ 4 drives?

[weberlin]

I bought a 40G Intel for my Dell D830 last month and I LOVE IT. Currently, I’m running Win7 Ultimate. I chose to pay a little more for name brand; other SSD manufacturers have larger drives for less. I don’t mind, I’m only using 20G.

+ It takes 20 seconds from the time I press the power on button, till I enter my password!

+ All applications generally start faster, other than that I can’t really feel the difference

+ Battery life has increased ~20%

+ as noted previously, it’s incredibly convenient to toss around the laptop and not have to worry about damaging a sector on a spinning platter

– It’s only a 40G HD, so I have all my data on a separate machine. This works out well for me b/c this laptop is used for internet/coffee shop computing

[weberlin]

I bought a 40G Intel for my Dell D830 last month and I LOVE IT. Currently, I’m running Win7 Ultimate. I chose to pay a little more for name brand; other SSD manufacturers have larger drives for less. I don’t mind, I’m only using 20G.

+ It takes 20 seconds from the time I press the power on button, till I enter my password!

+ All applications generally start faster, other than that I can’t really feel the difference

+ Battery life has increased ~20%

+ as noted previously, it’s incredibly convenient to toss around the laptop and not have to worry about damaging a sector on a spinning platter

– It’s only a 40G HD, so I have all my data on a separate machine. This works out well for me b/c this laptop is used for internet/coffee shop computing

[weberlin]

I bought a 40G Intel for my Dell D830 last month and I LOVE IT. Currently, I’m running Win7 Ultimate. I chose to pay a little more for name brand; other SSD manufacturers have larger drives for less. I don’t mind, I’m only using 20G.

+ It takes 20 seconds from the time I press the power on button, till I enter my password!

+ All applications generally start faster, other than that I can’t really feel the difference

+ Battery life has increased ~20%

+ as noted previously, it’s incredibly convenient to toss around the laptop and not have to worry about damaging a sector on a spinning platter

– It’s only a 40G HD, so I have all my data on a separate machine. This works out well for me b/c this laptop is used for internet/coffee shop computing

[weberlin]

I bought a 40G Intel for my Dell D830 last month and I LOVE IT. Currently, I’m running Win7 Ultimate. I chose to pay a little more for name brand; other SSD manufacturers have larger drives for less. I don’t mind, I’m only using 20G.

+ It takes 20 seconds from the time I press the power on button, till I enter my password!

+ All applications generally start faster, other than that I can’t really feel the difference

+ Battery life has increased ~20%

+ as noted previously, it’s incredibly convenient to toss around the laptop and not have to worry about damaging a sector on a spinning platter

– It’s only a 40G HD, so I have all my data on a separate machine. This works out well for me b/c this laptop is used for internet/coffee shop computing

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