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I see no performances diff from your pc then mine, starts lill faster then mine woopy and my internet loads faster then yours HAHAHA

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My Laptop starts faster then that :-x (specs: http://perfect-computers.com/Notebooks/HP-Pavilion-DV8210us/Detailed-product-flyer.html note: upgraded that to 2GB DDR)

Cool let's see a video of your laptop running. As for the internet? it was waiting for the connection (wireless). So nothing to do with launch speed as it was ready as soon as I opened it.
 
I see no performances diff from your pc then mine, starts lill faster then mine woopy and my internet loads faster then yours HAHAHA

and note:

My Laptop starts faster then that :-x (specs: http://perfect-computers.com/Notebooks/HP-Pavilion-DV8210us/Detailed-product-flyer.html note: upgraded that to 2GB DDR)

80GB 5400RPM

Seriously?

As far as his loading, the splash screen on windows 7 is timed, no matter how fast your PC is. Did you see though once that was loaded how quick the win7 desktop was ready? Almost instantly. Please don't compare a 1.8GHz Turion with a 5400rpm HD to AlienALX's PC in the video....
 
I was just adding to your post, not trying to tell you what you already knew..my bad.

No prob^^ Don't worry about it
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. So, all in all and hands down, its proven Alien's rig (WITH an SSD) is faster than just an average hard drive.
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Yep there is a lot difference between SSD and HDD in OS, at first i installed W7 Ultimate in bloody ~20 minutes on SSD, can you do it on HDD? Everything goes faster than on HDD. Trust on SSD ads!
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There is NOT latency!!! and laser head positioning
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Btw i have OCZ vertex2 SATA II 2,5" SSD

Max Read up to: 285MB/s

Max Write up to: 275MB/s

Sustained write up to: 250MB/s
 
Well as I said earlier in the thread I had to install Shista onto a 250gb Bara yesterday. Now the SATA 2 baras are not slow by any means but by the end I just wanted to cry. It really was painful. And with the services packs, upgrades and all that? it took all day to get a nice flat vanilla install on there
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God bless my SSD, and all of the proggys that sail in her.
 
Shutup and stop moaning.

Thought I'd join in. Anyone got the RevoDrive X2 or what ever it's called? Speeds on that are insane and just wondering what it's like if anyone has one.

They're awful awful drives for so many reasons I have explained over the past couple of weeks.

Upshot is because RAID 0 SSD sit behind a raid controller they suffer with two problems.

1. TRIM commands from the OS do not make it to the drives themselves, hence incredibly fast performance degradation and

2. Because the SSD drives are sitting behind a RAID controller you cant not flash the firmware on them, forever ruling out the possibility of RAID TRIM in the future. (this is of course the worst with the revo as you can't just unplug the drives to flash them seperately as they are soldered on and non removable)

As such (for the same reasons we don't recommend RAID SSD) it's a bad move. You're better off with one large and fast single SSD that supports the TRIM command
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Well I was using my single SSD behind a raid controller (without realising it) and within a month my write speeds dropped to half and my windows experience rating dropped from 7.1 to 6.1.

So, as I said, fast dude. Within three months without TRIM your drive will be crawling along at about half the speed of a 7200rpm SATA 2 hard drive. Yes, it really is that bad.

And, to restore performance you must secure erase the drive (like a low level format) and that not only wipes all of your data but then needs to write 0s to all of the messed up cells (kinda like clusters on a hdd).

You see with a regular hard drive the data is stored in sectors. These sectors become messy and the data spread all over the place but you can defragment a regular moving parts drive. What this does is write 1s to the deleted areas and then packs the data closer together so the read times improve.

However an SSD is not made from clusters. It is made from NAND cells. When you write something to a NAND cell and then delete it the cell does not refresh. Instead it becomes messy and when you write over it again it becomes messier. The only way to improve the peformance of those cells is by unlocking the drive and peforming the said secure erase which will completely clean out and wipe the cells.

Unless, of course, you are using TRIM which Windows 7 does with SSD natively. Basically this comes along, sweeps up and cleans the cells. It doesn't get them back to 100% but it does a decent enough job to last.

Edit. But TRIM can not get through to the SSD's bios to communicate the TRIM command if the drives are behind a RAID controller. See also - RAID 0 SSD and the Revodrive.
 
OMG why wast your $ on a SSD if all you going to use it for is to have OS on it? turns on and off faster woopy dooo

here in this comment you show your inexperience, but not to worry, I'm not a hater, nor am I a ranter.

SSD offers more advantages then just boot times. You can also gain speedy increases in various other areas. These include:

- opening files

- saving files

- playing games, especially if you copy your genuine game over to the SSD...

- as you stated, boot times

- you will also gain performance increases photo/video editing

these are just a hand full of advantages....

PCWhizzAndy
 
Hi everyone,

I think this post is about my new computer yet and not about SSD's.

Anyway, Some news about what I gonna buy. Well thanks to Pixmania I will buy a Asus ROG Rampage III Extreme.

And I got a problem to ask you all. I chosen the OCZ Platinum Extreme Low Voltage Triple Channel 3 x 2 GB DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 CL7 (OCZ3P1600ELV6GK), well they work at 1.35v is that good or not?? They work with CL 7-8-8-24 (CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS) at 1600Mhz and not very expensive. 150€

An alternative I tought was: Corsair Dominator-GT "Triple Channel" 3 x 2 GB DDR3 1866 - PC3 - 14900 (CMT6GX3M3A1866C9) Timmings of CL9 ( 9-9-9-24 ) speed at 1866Mhz at 1.65V a bit more expensive 172€ and are CL9 =S

Dont know, can you help me??

Thanks,

Ralm

P.S.: My problem with OCZ is if the motherboard suport it. They dont come in the certified list.
 
Hi everyone,

I think this post is about my new computer yet and not about SSD's.

Anyway, Some news about what I gonna buy. Well thanks to Pixmania I will buy a Asus ROG Rampage III Extreme.

And I got a problem to ask you all. I chosen the OCZ Platinum Extreme Low Voltage Triple Channel 3 x 2 GB DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 CL7 (OCZ3P1600ELV6GK), well they work at 1.35v is that good or not?? They work with CL 7-8-8-24 (CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS) at 1600Mhz and not very expensive. 150€

An alternative I tought was: Corsair Dominator-GT "Triple Channel" 3 x 2 GB DDR3 1866 - PC3 - 14900 (CMT6GX3M3A1866C9) Timmings of CL9 ( 9-9-9-24 ) speed at 1866Mhz at 1.65V a bit more expensive 172€ and are CL9 =S

Dont know, can you help me??

Thanks,

Ralm

P.S.: My problem with OCZ is if the motherboard suport it. They dont come in the certified list.

Dont buy anything with an OCZ badge dude, look out for Mushkin really. They do 1600 with cas6 timings and are sweet as a fraking nut.
 
OCZ ram from my experience is terrible.

I would go Corsair, G.Skill or Mushkin (preferably mushkin but prepare to pay the price for the high end stuff).

Infact to be quite frank I would sooner go with any other ram company than OCZ tbh. Kingston Hyper X (the lower end 1600mhz stuff) is very keenly priced.

Haha Tom beat me to it
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