SSD Thread (Benchmarks, Brands, News, and Advice)

[jv_guano]

Wait, you put the page file on a RAMdisk? That seems a little counter productive to me.

Also, putting temp into a ramdisk will one day make you sad. You'll be extracting a large .rar or something and you'll get an error saying something about running out of space on your HDD.

yes, actually it is a bit.
as I wrote in my first post, i was convinced to have 4GB ram, and that wouldn't be counterproductive, as you can use the half gig that is not being used by the OS.
Still I may disable it but I dont think this is the reason explaining this behaviour!

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not much as changed, really still slow

[a3r0x]

I have question:
Can I use Acronis Disk Image 2010 to copy (disc C:) which has 3 paritions (OS, Recovery and Tools)?
After I do that will the recovery option and everything else work on my new SSD?

[Slaughterhouse]

Been absent from the SSD scene for a while. If you all could give me a few updates it would be great. Looking to get the new Intel 300-600GB SSDs. Any news on when they're coming or for how much?

Also is Intel still the best?

[Phil]

Intel G3 is expected in feb 2011. There are several faster SSDs than Intel at the moment. Sandforce SSDs are particularly fast during medium heavy multi tasking.

[eYe-I-aïe...]

nope, RAMdisk is a part of the RAM that I instruct the system to use as a disk so I can tell the system to redirect there files that are continuously being written and hence the OS will do that on the RAM (preventing wear, that is my main aim) and not on the SSD.

that's is what I knew that RAM is faster than a SSD, but still I cant understand why the Firefox profile loaded from RAM is slower than the profile loaded from the SSD.

I don't know whether I really need a pagefile thus I set it up to the minimum.

I'm using the SSD as an SSD, I just want to prevent excessive wear.

well, my sys specs are the following: (maybe I should put them in signature though)
Samsung Q320
Win7 Professional 32bit
3GB DDR2 RAM
SSD OCZ Agility 2 120 GB
Intel Pentium Dual Core t3400
VGA nVidia G105M but I doubt it is really necessary!

thank you for your help!

OK...

You pagefile is a part of your disk that is used by windows to "prolong" your RAM, so windows use it like if it was more RAM. Therefore, the only reason I can see your computer would behave the way you describe would be that...

What you instruct your system to do on your Ramdisk is actually done on your Disk because windows switches your Ramdisk's stuff to the pagefile because you do not have "too much" RAM; see the paradox here...

Thus, it's actually taking longer to proceed because stuff has to be writtten in RAM, then on the pagefile, and maybe then back to RAM, so this would explain that...

It's only my point of view, but doing the following should clear that point:

Just get TOTALLY rid of the pagefile, and see if it's faster; ifyes;goto:you-solved-your-problem.com; ifno;goto:we'll-go-from-there.org

Make sense ?



eYe

PS: My advice to you is to use your SSD as an SSD, which means to stop worrying about wear and stuff; your SSD is made to endure such writes (random and lottsa 4Ks); just make sure you backup your data on a regular basis, and you should be enjoying your SSD without having to babysit it !

[Phil]

Some good SSD bargains:
OCZ Agility 2 90GB Sandforce SSD for $140 AR
Patriot Inferno 60GB $129 AR
Intel X25-M 80GB $169.99 After $30 MIR
http://forums.storagereview.com/inde...tech-bargains/

[DR650SE]

Well it looks like I spoke too soon. The Intel X25-V SSD is giving me the same I/O error and failure imminent message. I called Intel and they are going to RMA it. So thats good.

[Tomy B.]

Some good SSD bargains:
OCZ Agility 2 90GB Sandforce SSD for $140 AR
Patriot Inferno 60GB $129 AR
Intel X25-M 80GB $169.99 After $30 MIR
Storage Forums -> Storage and Tech Bargains

Agility 2 90GB is 3.5" (just a note).

And what's that with 90 GB capacity?

[I am gamer]

So i was thinking of buying an ssd.. Is the INTEL X25-M 160GB SSD GEN 2one that you can recommend. And is 340 bucks a fair price for this??

[Phil]

I'd guess it works well in competition against Intel X-25v 80GB.