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Just bought a Intel X25-M 80GB SSD <3
I did some reading and research and for $300 bucks it was the best deal. Well after PMing it with another store then with shipping and the works it costs me $270 but I also won a $200 gift card so $70 for a 80gig SSD is amazing to me hehe.
I will post some results once it gets here and try it on a few MMO's. Anyone else have a SSD maybe share their experiences?
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put your operating system on your x-25 hard drive,and put the one game you play the most ,deactivate paging file and your good to go!you ll be at fastest speed possible .dont forget there are some tweak in bios for some motherboard that help speed things up a lot with ssd
good choice going with intel.i ll have to forgo ssd for now so i did the rest w7 on fastest drive,achi on drive,deactivated paging file its goes farelly fast.
Yeah I hear with windows 7 has this feature with the new drives called trimming. Sort of works with windows 7 delete the buffer data or something crazy? Sounds cool but it was a main and needed feature but they said they don't support it for raid yet.
I wonder what 2 of these on raid 0 would do lol.
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one is very close to 175 read and about 125 or so write speed so two is probably 250 /200 and if you had server toy for the cach (sorry cant recall the exact term )
its probably aroud 350 mb/sec,300 mb/sec
but then dont need that since say your giga ethernet is working at peak the top you ll get from that is 125 mb/sec speed you would need an intel 10 gigaethenernet but then i dont think your provider will be willing to get you a 250mb/sec at your computer
(2000 mb/sec officially from your provider)hell they can barely keep up with my 10mb/sec
or real life speed (1.20 mb/sec)let alone 125 mb/sec
the speed you ll get with an ssd is good for personal computer game.but online doesnt give you lot of speed if you had already
deactivated paging file
In 3 years you'll get a 500gb SSD for $70.
Lolcuttingedgetechnology
yep !ssd are still usefull tho! i got my eye on a 90 dollars ,16 gigabyte one just for the os
but at 200 $ or so for an 80 gig intel ,lol ill probably get that instead.its just to speed up my os and the game i play since the game still is on the hard drive so the faster it is the better
I really don't like shopping for SSDs. You have to do a lot of research to make sure the one you are getting is good enough to warrant the costs, which is pretty much limited to recent Intels and OCZs.
I would suggest from my research the X25-V low budget or the X25-M and its considered one the top ones now. Just do some good shopping around and if you have a fav store online see if they do price matching then PM the price you can find the cheapest on the net.
Yeah maybe 3 years or even 4-5 years SSD for a 500gig maybe 70 bucks I'm guessing its not but it does not matter. It's a good investment now and I don't mind using 80gig for os and FAV game or just the OS to make life 100 times better. It's the OS is what i really want it for. Keep the OS condition good then everything else runs a tad better.
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If you got win 7, you don't need to change any setting, it will automatically choose the optimal settings. Don't disable paging file as it will cause some programs not to work at all.
When you get it check the firmware version on it and make sure it's the most recent firmware Intel provides. They added trim support in firmware a couple months back so you might need to update the one you ordered if it's been on the shelf a while.
How does firmware flashing work on a hard drive anyways?
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I dunno I've never done it, usually they don't release hard drive firmware because platter drives are suppose to be factory calibrated or some crap. I've done a DVD drive before though, just a windows app wrote out firmware to the drive. I'd assume it has to lock the hard drive to write firmware to it though so might be a bootable iso or dos-mode program.
Hf trying to find bootable pcie-version.
yep x-25-v is really hurting the competitor.and i hear they ll release a gamer version when they release their gamer system ,processor(32nm)since every gamer system is from last year
if this is true intel will have nailled the oppsition coffin.
I think x-25-V is slower then the x-25-M. By a lot if I recalled. When I priced getting 80gig M I thought okay the price not going be 2x its not for most SSD anyways it will be like 4-5 times but once I priced it was almost double the cost of the V plus some more and it was way faster.
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Vertex 2 is the fastest normal ssd atm, it's performance is bound by sata 2 speeds.