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[BoyNextDoor]

Any LitGeeks using solid state drives for workstations yet? Are they getting to where they are consumer items yet, or still too expensive?

Asking for two reasons: Because I need to buy a bunch of disk for work and EMC wants my first born for a tray of the things.

Also rebuilding my gamer PC and was thinking I may go SSHD if the speed and reliability is there.

Gracias.

 

[lovetoread]

We've been using them for months.

I don't think I'd get for a home machine just yet.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

A couple of follow up questions -

Using them for SAN/Servers? Are you running the databases on them?

Have any newer workstations coming through with them?

Thanks for the feedback

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

My OS is on a solid state drive and I have a conventional drive for storage. 20 second boot.

 

[lovetoread]

Luckily I've not had to work on the servers. But the machines that have them have only been used for a few months so I have no real issues with them yet.

We don't seem to have issues with the DB's yet.

We mostly are using them with laptops and desktops. They aren't going whole hog till one fails and we see what happens.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I found a couple of inexpensive ones. I liked the idea of running the OS on the SSHD and having a big disk of spinning platters for storage.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

$140 for an Intel drive

 

[bg23]

SO has one on his PC, and when I'm lazy I'll just turn his on instead for the novelty of a 5 second boot time. His whole PC is a gaming beast. My gaming rig is nice but pales in comparison.

 

[Liar]

$140 for an Intel drive

Intel 520 is top notch. Samsung and Corsair is also good. Avoid OCZ.

I have two 64 GB ssd in my desktop. One for Windows and installed programs (it's just about enough, could have used a 128 GB for a little more elbow space) One for my current media projects, audio and video swap files. And a cheapo 1 TB hdd for all storage, and games.

 

[Sean]

I'm thinking of getting one as my boot drive. But, let's be honest, my rig boots in about a minute anyway so it's not that big a deal.

 

[lovetoread]

If I wanted Instant start up, I'd just launch my vm.

I just want to know what happens when one fails. I am the one who has to retrieve the data when one goes.

 

[Liar]

If I wanted Instant start up, I'd just launch my vm.

I just want to know what happens when one fails. I am the one who has to retrieve the data when one goes.

Back yo stuffs up.

They have better longevity than a regular drive, but once they fry, they're much harder to extract data from.

 

[lovetoread]

Back yo stuffs up.

They have better longevity than a regular drive, but once they fry, they're much harder to extract data from.

That's what I heard.

But no one wants to hear such doubts.

 

[Liar]

That's what I heard.

But no one wants to hear such doubts.

Not a problem either way with common sense redundancy. A mechanical fail on a hard drive and you need to send it to data forensics and pay til you bleed for the privilge anyway.

Back yo stuffs up.

 

[XdOu™]

$140 for an Intel drive

not bad..

 

[BoyNextDoor]

That's what I heard.

But no one wants to hear such doubts.

Agreed. Do you use Acronis or Clonezilla?

 

[lovetoread]

Agreed. Do you use Acronis or Clonezilla?

The work pays for Steller Pheonix

 

[MidgetClown]

Any LitGeeks using solid state drives for workstations yet? Are they getting to where they are consumer items yet, or still too expensive?

Asking for two reasons: Because I need to buy a bunch of disk for work and EMC wants my first born for a tray of the things.

Also rebuilding my gamer PC and was thinking I may go SSHD if the speed and reliability is there.

Gracias.

 

[IndieSnob]

I just installed one of the Samsung 840 series 120 gig SSDs. It's one of the highest rated units out there (just a step below the 840 pro series).



System boots faster, but then again I leave my desktop on. So it's not a big advantage.

Anything that has large texturing or any amount of high graphical stuff to load is smoother. Will be a slight benefit in some games, but more beneficial in the video editing I do.

That said is it as big of a difference as it's made out to be? I'm not seeing the "omg" factor of it yet. Yes it's snappier, but would I necessarily blow a large chunk on a larger drive that is even faster then this one? Probably not. That also may be a little due to the fact that it's a Sata III drive and since I am using a P55 chipset motherboard it only has native Sata II, so I don't know how it would theoretically do in performance, I've only seen the synthetic benchmarks which we all know doesn't mean you see that difference in real life performance.

I really think to take advantage of it you'd have to get a pair of the 840 pros or the newer intels and put them in Raid 0 to see any huge gap in performance.

I think also that as a rule laptops benefit much more than desktops because the jump is much bigger from a 5400/7200 RPM drive with a small cache as compared to the jump from say a WD black or Samsung F3 platter drive.