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OCZ's Apex SSDs look to be good, but are extremely similar to the TITANs.
until I see the Intel X25 drives losing, I'm sticking with them
and HD Tach doesn't count
If you look at price/performance, they still dominate on 4k writes. 80GB is enough for me so I have no intentions of switching anytime soon.When it comes to price I think they lose. The Titans may not be as fast on reads but I believe they're faster on writes, and they're a hell of alot cheaper.
If you look at price/performance, they still dominate on 4k writes. 80GB is enough for me so I have no intentions of switching anytime soon.
the Intel will have the best all around performanceHow would two 300GB Velociraptors RAID 0 ($460 for both) compare with with that $400 80GB Intel SSD?
How about two GSkill 64GB SSD RAID0 ($270 for both)?
How about a single Titan 128GB SSD at $320?
Is it crazy that I kind of want the intel?
smoke it at what? HD Tach?Well, I have 4 X 30 gig OCZ Solid SSDs on order. They will be run in Raid 0 off of a Perc 5i SAS controller. I went with the cheaper drives since I was going to RAID 0 them, and this setup will prolly cap out the PERC 5. 600 MB/sec reads and 360 MB/sec writes in theory. I think the Perc will cap out at about 400 MB/sec though. Can't beat the price though.
For about $400 bux, plus $100 bux for the controller, I will have a 120 gig drive that should absolutely smoke the 80 gig Intel SSD.
I'm hoping to have the parts by this weekend to start playing. I will set it up for BM only to start with so I can do write testing. Can't wait to install Vista on it though.
Don
Well, the Perc 5i has 256 meg of cache on board. I also have 8 gig of RAM on my mobo with a 4 gig ram disk that houses my page file courtesy of RAMDISK + by Superspeed.
Stutter should not be an issue for me.
My other thought was that running 4 SSDs in RAID0 should alleviate any stutter problems also. After I install Vista, I will search for all the optimizations I can.
Mine is coming with a battery backup unit so I am less likely to get hammered by a power glitch.
The biggest plus though is the price. Similar controllers run $300 bux or more new.
I debated waiting for the Vertex drives to start shipping, but decided I didn't want to be too cutting edge.
Don
That sounds like a great idea. I am going to have to look into it more, may need more RAM if I set up my pagefile that way.
I suppose I could always move my pagefile to my WD 640AAKS and load OS onto the G-Skill. Would that solve the stutter?
what do you use your ramdisk for?
So, depending on what you're using your ramdisk for, isn't there a "ramp-up" time on every boot?
Every time the box is booted to desktop, the ramdisk has to be created, configured, pagefile created, possibly temp folders etc. need to be moved/created. I'm specifically thinking in the applicatioons to SSDs as boot drives. A lot of peeps are using ramdisks in that application. Now that sleep resume functionality is freakin' borked on the x58's, I've been forced to do complete restarts. How much "time" is required every reboot for said ramdisks to be "ready?"