SSD Harddrives?

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GregB

  • #2
    Not got one personally, but a friend of mine swears by his - his Windows7 machine boots very fast. A common setup is OS and commonly used apps on SSD for the speed and data and everything else on a 'normal' drive'.

    His only gripe is that he wished he got a bigger one (i think his is around 30gig).
     
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    mit74

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    In real terms SSD are not quicker than good quality HDD and benchmarks prove this. They are also very pricey at the moment so most people say it's going to be another year before they become an option for businesses. Before people tell me I'm wrong I took this information from this months PC Pro that has a good article about drives speeds and SSD.
    However I'm really tempted to get a few and have them on raid for awesome speeds and super quietness. This is a great video on SSD Raid Awesomeness:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
     
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    SSD's are excellent, but I forsee a lot of lost data if people continue to ignore even the most basic of backup routines.

    There is less chance of recovery from an SSD without some expensive services out there, in the event of some faults anyways.

    We'll wait and see if they let the quality fall by the wayside, and in the meantime I still love a PC with a Velociraptor system disk and a SATA-II data disk :)
     
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    leemason

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    Comspec said:
    SSD's are excellent, but I forsee a lot of lost data if people continue to ignore even the most basic of backup routines.

    There is less chance of recovery from an SSD without some expensive services out there, in the event of some faults anyways.

    We'll wait and see if they let the quality fall by the wayside, and in the meantime I still love a PC with a Velociraptor system disk and a SATA-II data disk :)
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    That's an important point. No matter which disk configuration you use there is always a finite probability of failure. Backups are essential and not just to a USB disk next to your PC. You need to ensure physical separation between your system being backed up and your backup data.
     
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    Presumably if you get 2 of them you can use RAID mirroring as part of your data protection strategy.

    I'm guessing that the SATA driver just sees these as drive like any other and doesn't care about technology, does this mean you could add an SSD in a RAID array with a conventional spinning platter drive (I'm thinking of an upgrade strategy, I already have a RAID mirror in place so I could replace one drive, let the RAID controller rebuild the mirror, then replace the other drive, and let the RAID controller rebuild the mirror again).
     
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    leemason

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    Tom McClelland said:
    Presumably if you get 2 of them you can use RAID mirroring as part of your data protection strategy.

    I'm guessing that the SATA driver just sees these as drive like any other and doesn't care about technology, does this mean you could add an SSD in a RAID array with a conventional spinning platter drive (I'm thinking of an upgrade strategy, I already have a RAID mirror in place so I could replace one drive, let the RAID controller rebuild the mirror, then replace the other drive, and let the RAID controller rebuild the mirror again).
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    They are just seen as SATA drives so you can use them in a RAID array for resilience. As you say this would form only part of your data protection strategy but is obviously additional to providing effective backups.
     
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    I notice things to be a lot snappier than they were but the results are hard to quantify as it was installed along with a ton of extra hardware like a new mobo and CPU / ram so that could have been it as well. Windows loads up lightening quick though if that helps :)
     
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    telephoneman said:
    I've got one for my win 7 OS. the PC boots and restarts really quick. However on my machine the normal hard drive seems to go to sleep and whilst the computer whizzes along whilst browsing the net it can take time to start other programs - you can actually hear the fans start up when the old disk is being kicked into life.

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    I think that might be the power saving function for win7. Shuts down all drives that isnt in used after a certain period to save energy.
     
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    NetwiseHosting

  • #25
    Hi guys,

    I think in summary people are saying that they are great drives if you have got the money, and can be super quick but a well built system with SATA-II disks can be a real value for money alternative if you have a decent balanced hardware set.

    Either way, backup have to be a must and on a regular basis and just to remind you keep it external from the computers in questions, a NAS drive or similar would be ideal. RAID connectivity is not a replacement for backup, but it does give a further level of redundancy.
    Kind regards,

    Matthew
     
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    leemason

  • #27
    Not all SSD drives are equal however. The last one that I posted a link to is 200MB/sec read and about 110MB/sec write speed. This one is a lot more expensive but is 120GB but more importantly the performance is stunning: 540MB/sec read and 480MB/sec write speed: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...ress+SSD+(OCZSSDPX-1RVD0120)+?productId=40784

    It's on a PCI-Express card with it's own built in high speed controllers.
     
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