[saturn_656]

FYI, Western Digital 256GB SSD on sale for $199.99 w/ free shipping.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820250003

I couldn't pass it up.

[raydan]

Spam!

[BartSimpson]

Not a big fan of SSD tech just yet.

256GB when for half that or less you can buy 1TB in a standard SATA drive.

[saturn_656]

BartSimpson wrote:

Not a big fan of SSD tech just yet.

256GB when for half that or less you can buy 1TB in a standard SATA drive.

I'm not a huge fan of the current prices either, but the performance boost with these drives is substantial.

[Curtman]

saturn_656 wrote:

FYI, Western Digital 256GB SSD on sale for $199.99 w/ free shipping.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820250003

I couldn't pass it up.

Good score. It now says $529.99 and "OUT OF STOCK". For that price I can get six 2TB drives in a raid array. For $199 that's a great deal though.

[sandorski]

Great Price and great capacity.

[BartSimpson]

saturn_656 wrote:

BartSimpson wrote:

Not a big fan of SSD tech just yet.

256GB when for half that or less you can buy 1TB in a standard SATA drive.

I'm not a huge fan of the current prices either, but the performance boost with these drives is substantial.

With the new multicore Windows 7 machines you can get that same performance with a couple caveats:

1. You need plenty of RAM. I bought my recent computer with 10GB of RAM and then upgraded to 24GB.

2. You tun off the virtual memory or swap file on the hard drive - that way your programs run entirely in RAM. The difference is amazing.

[sandorski]

BartSimpson wrote:

saturn_656 wrote:

BartSimpson wrote:

Not a big fan of SSD tech just yet.

256GB when for half that or less you can buy 1TB in a standard SATA drive.

I'm not a huge fan of the current prices either, but the performance boost with these drives is substantial.

With the new multicore Windows 7 machines you can get that same performance with a couple caveats:

1. You need plenty of RAM. I bought my recent computer with 10GB of RAM and then upgraded to 24GB.

2. You tun off the virtual memory or swap file on the hard drive - that way your programs run entirely in RAM. The difference is amazing.

An SSD is a lot cheaper than RAM.

[herbie]

But you don't use 256GB except for storage.
Wrote a Community TV program that loaded itself into RAM on boot=up and ran from there fantastic back when 128MB was "huge". Loaded the next week's messages on a ZIP disk, click the reset button and you were updated, up an running in 2 minutes.
Our office PC has 16GB and runs similar to what Bart describes, only uses the hard drive to boot up and store what you're working on. I also have several Linux machines where everything works off a 4 or 8 GB camera chip: they run continuously.

[sandorski]

herbie wrote:

But you don't use 256GB except for storage.
Wrote a Community TV program that loaded itself into RAM on boot=up and ran from there fantastic back when 128MB was "huge". Loaded the next week's messages on a ZIP disk, click the reset button and you were updated, up an running in 2 minutes.
Our office PC has 16GB and runs similar to what Bart describes, only uses the hard drive to boot up and store what you're working on. I also have several Linux machines where everything works off a 4 or 8 GB camera chip: they run continuously.

It's still a lot cheaper and nearly as fast. SSD will Bootup faster or do any task requiring Data from a Drive faster. Caching everything into RAM will certainly give absolute best performance, but Bart has paid a premium for that, basically 2x what this particular SSD's price was and you don't even need an SSD of that volume to benefit from the boost.