So how is this PSU?
I read here that the internally it's "almost" the same as Nexus NX-5000.
I'm considering getting it because it's the closest thing to my budget - exceeds it by almost 10 € already, but the second closest thing (said Nexus) is another 15...

And the price....pointless.

Yes i've read up about partition alignment for use in XP however, none in the case of using Windows 2000. I know Win2K is old but hey, so are my IDE laptops. http://www.liliputing.com/2008/12/whats-the-best-os-for-ssds-windows-2000.html http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArt...

dhanson865 wrote:But I fully expect SSDs to outstrip even that doubling of bandwidth in the next few years and multiple disk enclosures won't be as interesting to me down the road if they don't offer multiple data cables.

A few months is more like it. If not less. There's a lot of space for improving bandwidth.

Yes, but when updating the firmware you lose all data. And if you get a bad 1199 IRC firmware when building a new PC, tough luck. So IMO the update must be done on a different machine, not a new build. Just make a partition image and store it temporarily on another drive. And most people know sb. w...

Tzupy wrote:I wonder how can you find out which firmware revision you'll get BEFORE buying the drive?

It doesn't matter much because you can update it.

zborbas wrote:

Depends on the controller, doesn't it?

I thought you would use an ordinary on-board SATA controller, with a max bandwith of 300 MB/sec. About the "unnecessary", I am sorry, that was a bit harsh indeed.

That's "theoretical 300 MB/s per drive", not for all drives together.

6 SATA HDD 7200rpm Swap file on 7200rpm drive. These are obvious bottlenecks. Those 6 HDDs, if they have anything on them that Windows wants to access during boot, well you probably might as well not have an SSD. Ditto the swap file on the HHD -- it should definitely run on the SSD. Huh? What you j...

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ST980811AS
EDIT: Hmm..among all the links saying "5400.3" there's also http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?v ... cale=en-US
Looks funny, but says 4200.

I noticed 75 people viewed this, but no replies. Even "gut" feelings or second hand opinions ("my co-worker thinks...") would be appreciated. Thank you, Ken To me servers are meant, by design, to be in their own room. so why bother? (there are threads in the test forum with thousands of views ;) ) ...

About RAM SSDs being useless:
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-ram-v-flash.html

RAM, Flash, HDD: they all have their niches.
Many manufacturers are going to flash, but AFAIK none gave up RAM business it was in already.

With all the SSD talk around... are RamDisks other than the HyperOS Hyperdrive (5 or 5M now) being improved? There seems to be so little info about this on the net. Do you know about advancements in these directions? Acard is the only in consumer area now. HyperOS buys from them. It seems a dead en...

It looks like it clearly states it's MLC flash memory (vs. volatile RAM used in devices like FusionIO) . Still not a product I would look at to purchase, though. FusionIO is not a RAM device. It's just regular flash, SLC or MLC depending on a model. My mistake. So why are all these other SSDs so sl...

Can you buy 4 250 SI GB Vertexes and controller for this price? You can't even get crappy JMicrons with such capacity for $1500, not to mention controller. ADDED: Which controller? HighPoint site doesn't mention any SATA / SAS one with Marvell chipset and PCIe x8. The case contains a RocketRaid 352...

Power loss is not a problem. Vertex has a battery (or most likely:capacitor) that keeps memory for the time needed to write it to flash.

It's already been outed as a RocketRaid card with four naked 250GB Vertex drives attached via SATA, all crammed into a plastic housing to hide the mess. It's no FusionIO drive - just a marketing gimmick. There's even photos showing the grey plastic molding, later painted black to look like an anodi...

i've been loving xp x64 so far. but i'm starting to feel like this is the end of the road for windows on my home pc. when open source drivers for 3d hardware reach some level of day-to-day-use stability, i'll go for a linux distro running whatever kde they're up to and a nice shiny new version of w...

http://www.jmax-hardware.com/images/stories/Brice28/News/cebit09/ZDrive1.jpg Price? $1500. Sources (and pictures): http://www.jmax-hardware.com/news/ocz-zdrive.html http://www.revioo.com/news/zdrive-ssd-ocz-n12467.html Don't trust benchmarks, at least in one case OCZ cheated by using data size that...

Plekto wrote:http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669

Just came out. Yet another reason Multi-layer NAND is no good.

This has nothing to do with MLC. Even SLC FusionIO shows performance degradation over time.

@Plekto Reguarding the whole "Pass on the M and spend $50 more for the E". While its true the SLC version is less than $50 more at this point, its also less than half the storage space. I only have 2 games on my PC at home with a WinXP Pro installation. The only other major software i have is open ...

All 3 of their SSD's from their SLC to their MLC are all under the same 3 year warrenty. This thread is about cheap drives. X-25 is consumer high end. Indeed, quality is expected here. Found it. A real industry article. The X25 uses multi-layer NAND. X25-M uses MLC, X-25-E uses SLC. Even the E mode...

Found it. A real industry article. The X25 uses multi-layer NAND. X25-M uses MLC, X-25-E uses SLC. why would consumers need server grade hardware? your logic is out of left field. The reason is that only the server grade SSDs are close to the reliability of a standard consumer hard drive. The other...

No, wear leveling starts from day zero. As the name suggests, it's meant to keep all cells equally worn out. Think of using 1 cell at the time. It wears out and gets replaced. Another one, ... Your drive dies after all replacements +1 cell are gone, which is ~5-10% of possible lifetime with wearing ...

I will definitely go for a Vertex once they settle in the market for good. With the stuttering gone I think I can deal with making a backup every now and than for the sake of performance. Maybe you know it already, but Titan != Vertex, it doesn't have cache. It's a RAID of 2 JMicrons, just like Ape...

each page (typically 128KB) is erased. You misread the review. They say about 128 pages 4K each creating a single erase block. And 0.5 MB block in X25-M is very small, 2-4 MB is more like average. Defragmenting an SSD is a mixed bag. It reduces the number of small random writes by consolidating fra...

2. Never put a swap file on an SSD (Turn off virtual memory or move the pagefile/swapfile to another drive (a traditional hard drive) ) Hmm... so what would you do in a notebook application where you can't live without a swap file? Not use SSD at all? If you can afford a SSD, then buying 4 GB shoul...

Why would the drive being overwritten damage anything. Because NULL != zero. A sector written full of zeroes is not an empty sector, as far as the drive is concerned, even though it is as far as the OS is concerned. The drive has no knowledge of why the OS wrote what it wrote to a given piece of st...

What's the point of 12X1TB raid? Wouldn't something like 3x 4x1TB or 2x 6x1TB be more reliable? Granted, you'd lose 1-2TB more space, but I would not personally like to see all of the data disappear when two drives fail simultaneously. With more than one array you have a greater chance that the sim...

Hey dhanson, where did you get that JMicron info? My 120GB CoreV2 never performed at its spec'd sequential speeds, and stuttered all the time. It has a USB port that was supposed to be usable for firmware updates but then OCZ announced that they would not be providing firmware updates for Core V2 a...

500 MB/s is a piece of cake. Surely this year if SATA3 can hold that much (and it should). Sorry, I should clarify. By "for how long" I meant "how much data do you have to write before your on-disc cache becomes full and your write speed tanks". Can I write 1GB at 500MB/sec? Sure. I don't know the ...