Wow. I might bite the bullet and buy one. Looking around, looks like I can get a PCI-X SSD card that is big enough for a boot drive+my docs for around $200. I had no idea they were this cheap!
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 8:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Someone opens Windows Media Player / iTunes / Media Monkey. If your music library is on your SSD, then populating the list of albums and cover art is near instantaneous. Opening the "Recent Item" in Windows 7 (or the Start menu in previous versions) is instantaneous Search in Outlook is instantaneous (as is Windows search) There are many benefits to just putting everything except the most bulky storage onto an SSD. I even put my testing VMs on SSDs now (if I can) Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2011 8:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I would suspect that those of us on this list aren't the standard consumer. We tend to fall into two types, those who become Luddites at home, and those who manage sophisticated infrastructures at home. I think significant time savings can be gained by having the OS on SSD, the other stuff doesn't seem to need the same level of speed, but I could be talking out of my hat. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com> wrote: Fair enough. However it seems that any modern SSD has enough redundancy plus resiliency to survive tens of years of consumer use. Cheers Ken From: Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2011 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs True, I imagine they are trying to make it last longer by not writing to it so much. On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com> wrote: Why? I'd put as much stuff onto the SSD as you can - the performance difference between an SSD and a mechanical drive is simply unbelievable. Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 25 March 2011 9:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs And, I would make it only for the OS, moving the user profile(s) and any applications to a standard drive. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Steve Burkett <steve.burk...@stemcor.com> wrote: Whatever ya do, make sure you get the latest model available of the drive if you can, as they're coming on leaps and bounds with the read and write performances of these things with each new controller. For instance the original OCZ Vertex drives could do 230MB/s read & 135MB/s writes, the Vertex 2 model for the same price can do 285MB/s read & 275MB/s writes, and the Vertex 3 drive that's just been released with the latest Sandforce controller can now do up to 500MB/s read and 500MB/s writes. From: Ames Matthew B (REST) [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] Sent: 25 March 2011 10:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I have ordered an SSD (I was greedy and went for the 128GB - thing future proofing!) for my slightly aging machine. My plan was to install the OS + Apps onto. I would then retain my current 750GB disk for data, temp, profiles, pagefiles, etc. This I should get fast boot/app load but not kill the SSD. As I run a few VMs I figured the vmdk files could reside on the SSD, and the pagefiles for them to be pointed to a mechanical disk. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
