OC3D Review: OCZ 64GB Core series SSD

[w3bbo]

There have been many advances in PC technology since its birth some 25 years ago but the humble hard drive has seen little in the way of significant change in storage medium. Can the latest Solid State Drive from OCZ change all that?

Read all about it HERE.

 

[Luigi]

Ooh, its looking better for the SSd market, still a long way to go though...

Nice review, but the forum link at the end doesnt work

 

[w3bbo]

Works fine here m8.

 

[Luigi]

:S this keeps happening to me..

 

[Hassan]

I could do with one of them and slap it onto my laptop. Oh sometimes I just wish my HD on my Laptop was faster.

 

[Luigi]

my dads laptop has a g sensor, the moment you touch it the HDD freezes.. its a touch over sensitive lol

 

[Hassan]

Whats the G Sensor for? or did u just crack a joke?

 

[MikeEnIke]

Whats the G Sensor for? or did u just crack a joke?

Haha I'm assuming he means g force sensor where it detects how much force is being exerted on the laptop

 

[Luigi]

Yeah, its so it knows when you dropped it so it freezes the HDD to avoid damage.. Only it stops it if you so much as touch it

 

[Mr. Smith]

These SSDs don't seem to offer enough over HDD to warrant spending the extra £££... I think I'll get a velociraptor or two after reading this

 

[Bungral]

These SSDs don't seem to offer enough over HDD to warrant spending the extra £££... I think I'll get a velociraptor or two after reading this

Pretty much my thinking really... Velociraptors aint so bad with 300gb.. I could manage with that just about.

 

[Luigi]

they do 74 and 150gb velociraptors now

 

[Hassan]

One thing I think is that if todays HD stopped working and you need urgent data, then you can send it to a Data Recovery Specialist and they can somehow extract the data, but lets say the same was to happen with the SSD. What will happen then?

 

[PP Mguire]

Well considering my HDs generate a ton of heat, and im tired of slow ass laptop drives i think SSDs are for me. Ill leave the big clunkys in my server for storage. Im just glad this 64gig isnt 8grand. Ive seen a 128gig SSD for 9grand. Thats way to much. Youd think Sony are selling these (jk)

 

[TJS]

they do 74 and 150gb velociraptors now

OH H*** YEAH! Get four of those 74GB in a RAID 0 array and blaze!

 

[Diablo]

I can see the point of an SSD in laptops, but I'm happy with my Velociraptor. 64GB is quite a lot, and don't SSD's have a limited number of read write cycles? (I know its in the 100K to 1M range in terms of the Asus EEE) I might not feel to happy if my SSD just spontaneously died (same with HDs tho I s'pose)

 

[PP Mguire]

The point is so they arent so slow due to 5400rpms used in most laptops.

 

[Diablo]

Yeah just turned on my old pc...now i know why we all switched to 7.2k/10k/ssd...slow, clunky, noisy etc

 

[PP Mguire]

Exactly I have a 3gig Maxtor (5400rpm) in my P4 rig and its so SLOW.

 

[magicmerlin]

Im a bit worried

Hello geek-friends!

Im waiting on two of these drives - OCZ 32 GB Core-series, and a controllercard..Now i get a bit worried about the results...Have i made the right desition when i bought these?

Also im thinking, will my AMD Dual-core 6000+ processor be a bottleneck, or does it matter at all?

Anyway, at least i was fast and bought these before when the price was a bit lower, now they cant get me to pay the extra 69.73 dollars.

I cant wait to see the results, but when reading this i get the feeling that high expectations is unnecasary. Still waiting and hoping :yumyum: - at least boot-up time will be lightning-fast, that´s a thing i learned when i had a 8 GB samsung ssd, even though it was extremely unstable, but i blame that on the small size....but just to be sure i´ll never ever buy another samsung ssd