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Millhouse · **on:** July 13, 2012, 01:07:20 AM

Finally joined the SSD revolution, got an OCZ Vertex 4 a couple of weeks back.

Before this, My PC was booting from a Samsung 1TB F3 hard disk. Once the BIOS had initialised, boot time to desktop was about 40 seconds. With the SSD, it is now 12 seconds.

Logrus9 · **Reply #1 on:** July 13, 2012, 03:07:21 AM

I've been meaning to do this for a while but always put it off. Time to get my rear in gear!

Whoey · **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2012, 09:44:33 AM

yup, got one here too... a clean install of windows and ubuntu on it both boot extremely fast compared to my old drives.

nuphoria · **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2012, 11:57:24 AM

Cool

Are they not still hugely expensive for their capacity though?

Whoey · **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2012, 12:11:13 PM

ish, prices have dropped significantly... but you can run an SSD for your OS, and a regular drive for media storage... makes a huge impact overall...

nuphoria · **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2012, 03:32:38 PM

Hmmm, well that is worth thinking about then, ta

Whoey · **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2012, 03:56:55 PM

I got my OCZ Agility 3 Series (60 GB) for 63,55 € in March... at the time it was the best bang for the buck locally...it's now about 10eur cheaper... make sure you check the read/write speed are both fast... some drives appear cheaper but will only read fast and write much slower...

Syph007 · **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2012, 05:06:57 PM

I thought about it, but my main pc never gets shut off, I only hibernate so 'boot' time is only a few seconds, and once its up and running disk I/O speed doenst much matter to me once its loaded into RAM. I still think they are cool, and great for my work pc as it chews through code compiles, but for home I cant cost justify it.

Gryffin · **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2012, 05:19:40 PM

My six-year-old MacBook Pro was dying, so I recently replaced it with a new MacBook Air, with 256GB SSD. The new drive is about ten times faster than the MBP's hard drive.

I really notice the diff: not only is the sheer throughput much higher, but because there are no heads to physically move, seek time is zero. So operations that typically read and/or write non-contiguously — like say, launching an application — absolutely scream.

Whoey · **Reply #9 on:** July 13, 2012, 06:46:38 PM

and they are much quieter...

Heinz Doofenshmirtz · **Reply #10 on:** July 13, 2012, 11:44:38 PM

And much more energy efficient as well.

New_World · **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2012, 10:20:25 PM

i've got one but its not hooked up

Abstraction · **Reply #12 on:** September 14, 2012, 11:12:53 AM

I got myself a 128gig SSD to replace my painfuly small 64GB WD Raptor, but sadly something about my motherboard doesn't like it. It recognises it but can't install windows on it, gets about 70% through and just fails totally. Rather frustrating!

Whoey · **Reply #13 on:** September 14, 2012, 07:15:06 PM

Quote from: Abstraction on September 14, 2012, 11:12:53 AM

I got myself a 128gig SSD to replace my painfuly small 64GB WD Raptor, but sadly something about my motherboard doesn't like it. It recognises it but can't install windows on it, gets about 70% through and just fails totally. Rather frustrating!

checked to see if there's a bios update available for the motherboard?

New_World · **Reply #14 on:** September 14, 2012, 07:33:30 PM

i have a samsung 830 SSD for sale.

Abstraction · **Reply #15 on:** September 14, 2012, 08:48:37 PM

Quote from: Whoey on September 14, 2012, 07:15:06 PM

Quote from: Abstraction on September 14, 2012, 11:12:53 AM
I got myself a 128gig SSD to replace my painfuly small 64GB WD Raptor, but sadly something about my motherboard doesn't like it. It recognises it but can't install windows on it, gets about 70% through and just fails totally. Rather frustrating!

checked to see if there's a bios update available for the motherboard?

Yeah I couldn't find one (xfx 780i sli). Got plenty of power available, checked the bios settings and can't figure out how to get it sorted.

Whoey · **Reply #16 on:** September 14, 2012, 08:56:32 PM

What about reset to factory default bios settings... that has sometimes helped me in the past.

Also tried a different OS or tried the drive in a different machine?

Abstraction · **Reply #17 on:** September 14, 2012, 09:10:07 PM

Tried installing ubuntu and the same issue. Did a reset (jand lost all my overclocking as I forgot to write down the settings and haven't had time to redo them) but that didn't change things. Not got another machine sadly.

Can't decide whether to send it back and assunr its a compatability issue or wait to use it elsewhere.

Whoey · **Reply #18 on:** September 14, 2012, 09:15:27 PM

the overclocking might have had something to do with it... a friend with a system nearby?

Abstraction · **Reply #19 on:** September 14, 2012, 10:33:23 PM

None with pcs that are easy to tinker with, most my mates moved to macs or laptops ages ago, and those that didn't have very old machines. Actually I have an old net book lying around. Any reason you can think why I couldn't swap out the 16gig ssd in there for this one?

mvyrmnd · **Reply #20 on:** September 14, 2012, 10:55:46 PM

Macs and/or laptops are dead easy to install ssd's into.

It's possible your netbook is using a mSATA drive which looks like a micro PCI card, so it doesn't have a proper SATA port.

Abstraction · **Reply #21 on:** September 16, 2012, 12:28:06 AM

Aye but convincing someone to let you take apart their mac book or laptop is a bit of a challenge sadly!

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #22 on:** September 16, 2012, 01:07:34 AM

I suppose that depends on whether or not you like that person, and whether or not they are aware that you have their laptop!

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Abstraction · **Reply #23 on:** September 25, 2012, 08:58:50 AM

Quote from: mvyrmnd on September 14, 2012, 10:55:46 PM

Macs and/or laptops are dead easy to install ssd's into.

It's possible your netbook is using a mSATA drive which looks like a micro PCI card, so it doesn't have a proper SATA port.

Yeah it's a mini pcie apparently so not compatible.

Abstraction · **Reply #24 on:** September 25, 2012, 09:01:19 AM

Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on September 16, 2012, 01:07:34 AM

I suppose that depends on whether or not you like that person, and whether or not they are aware that you have their laptop!

Sadly my girlfriends laptop needs a motherboard replacement so that's the obvious option gone, don't think I'd manage to get away with anyone else's lovely shiny laptop :-P

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