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The other advantage of an SSD is that they are not prone to mechanical failures, as there are no moving parts, so IMO, they are more reliable than a HDD (especially considering how unreliable all HDD manufacturers are nowadays)I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
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Which one did you get, what are you using it in, etc...?A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.Comment
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It's a Lenovo IdeaPad V570.
Core i5-2410M, 6GB RAM, Kingston SSDnow V100 64GBAttached FilesLast edited by shovenose; 03-11-2012, 10:16 AM.Comment
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Told ya so.36 Monitors, 3 TVs, 4 Laptops, 1 motherboard, 1 Printer, 1 iMac, 2 hard drive docks and one IP Phone repaired so far....Comment
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A whole 64gb oh goodie. Is it the year 2002 again
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Not interested until SSD gets in the price range and storage range of the current mechanical hard drives 1-2 tb.
Price wise they don't seem practical for general purpose storage unless you have real deep pockets for the larger ones.
Both those seek times are very appealing
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Last edited by Krankshaft; 03-12-2012, 04:12 PM.Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.Comment
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That's why I got the 120GB one for $130...
Not that long ago, I thought pretty much the same thing. That being, too much money, not enough space. That was until I figured out how they're supposed to be used.
The idea is to load your programs and operating system on the SSD, then get a large slow mechanical hard drive for storage. It's not meant to replace a mechanical hard drive, it's meant to augment a mechanical hard drive. The specific purpose is to speed up your operating system and programs.
You're not buying space, you're buying speed.A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.Comment
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A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.Comment
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^and I bet it uses a lot of power and is slow (for an SSD too... you get what you pay for sometimes.sigpic
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Why would you install games on C: ? C: is traditionally for operating system, not movies and games.
Went through this with another guy on Jonnyguru's forums...
You don't have to keep Steam on C:, it works just fine from any other partition. Mine is on K:
Just copy folder, edit 2-5 registry keys (change paths to point to new folder), reboot.Comment
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I'll take the slightly lower speeds but the reliability bonuses + RAID abilities with my old spinners... Not quite ready to jump on the SSD bandwagon yet. A few more years of seasoning, they will be ready.
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Well I don't know about that. I stated what the speeds were with my 120GB version of that drive in my SSD thread. I'd hardly call that slow. Are there faster ones? Yes. But that last few percentage points just don't make sense when you figure in the cost difference.
Edit: From what I read, with SSD's, usually the larger drives are faster than the smaller ones, in the same brand / product line anyway.
Edit2: Jump on in TC! The water's fine!Last edited by acstech; 03-13-2012, 11:45 AM.A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.Comment
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It uses the Sandforce 2xxx controller which is the fastest thing on the market currently.
Or put differently; It simply has a good price
TOPCAT; SSD's can be raided too, works great...
We actually have 2x Micron P300 100GB SLC SSD's in a RAID-1 on our new server for Techspot
Last edited by Per Hansson; 03-13-2012, 11:46 AM."The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."Comment
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Now... 48x SSDs in RAID 0 would be epic paired with dual 8-core Intel Xeons, 32GB of RAM, and an additional 48x WD Raptors in RAID 0 (for storage, the SSDs would be for OS/games)...
Anybody got a few million bucks to waste to try that?Comment
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"The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."Comment
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Yeah, I was about to post that youtube video.
Even more awesome was that they were only to get over 2GB per second with 10 or 16 ssd drives out of 24.
The hardware raid intel controller on the 24 port areca card was just not powerful enough to route the data to all 24 sata ports and keep the transfer speed high.
Those SSD drives had something like 150 MB/s max read speed - nowadays you get to 260-450 MB/s with each one.Comment
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Wow... 64Gb is actually still quite useful... I still haven't filled my 500Gb drive ΒΌ of the way yet!
edit: I still have over 400Gb free space
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You install games on C: if C: is your fastest drive, and you want to wait the least amount of time at the loading screens. Any game with an open world will be loading off the drive constantly as you move (even with 8gb of RAM). A slow drive leads to stuttering during gameplay. Why would you install games on C: ? C: is traditionally for operating system, not movies and games.
Went through this with another guy on Jonnyguru's forums...
You don't have to keep Steam on C:, it works just fine from any other partition. Mine is on K:
Just copy folder, edit 2-5 registry keys (change paths to point to new folder), reboot.Ludicrous gibs!
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I have a Lenovo Legion 5 with a Ryzen 7 series CPU and RTX 3070 GPU. My issue is that it turns on and all seems fine except after a few seconds the fans spin up high and the laptop turns off after 34 seconds.
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Good evening, gentlemen.
I have a problem with my monitor. It turns off after a few seconds or flickers. Shining a flashlight on the screen doesn't show any image, so I guess it's not the "2 seconds to dark" I read in the forum.
To turn it back on, I have to press the power button twice. Then after a few seconds it turns off again or flickers. See video.
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