Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Mike Manship
Here is a program designed specifically for moving from and HD to a SSD : http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/index.html 73 de Mike W9OJ On 3/25/2011 1:44 PM, Steve Potter wrote: A good and free and so far 100% reliable application is Easeus TodoBackup

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Steve Potter
om: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell (K3NC) Sent: 25 March 2011 16:42 To: William H. Fite; Brian Lloyd Cc: Flex Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives? Absolutely agree, keep windows, system functions and your applications

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Alfred Green
On 3/25/2011 8:34 AM, Brian Lloyd wrote: Since I only need about 6GB of storage for the radio computer I went looking for a deal on smaller SSDs. I was able to find a 32GB SSD for $110. Nowadays you might expect to get 1TB for that price but I would just end up with 994GB of free space anywa

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Alfred Green
On 3/24/2011 7:47 PM, Neal Campbell (K3NC) wrote: \\The SSDs of (my) choice are: 1. RevoDrive 2 120GB PCIe SSD (it goes in a pci express slot and will score 7.9 on the Windows Experience Index which is the best possible score) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227578 2. C

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Alfred Green
On 3/24/2011 7:32 PM, Mickey Baker wrote: There's a good article comparing the two technologies here: http://www.technize.com/ssd-vs-hdd-comparison/ Interesting, thanks. They're a lot faster, but remember that FLASH memory has a lifespan of 100,000 writes per cell. SSDs have dynamic reallocat

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Alfred Green
On 3/24/2011 7:22 PM, NU8Z wrote: I have a SSD and noticed a great improvement. You are correct. PSDR does not access the disk much. But I run a number of the DX Labs programs and it really reduces the disk access time when logging/ database accessing, etc. I really don't do much of that at prese

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Neal Campbell (K3NC)
oyd Cc: Flex Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives? My approach is similar to Brian's. I have the OS and the page files (is that still the right term under Win7?) on a small SSD and all the "stuff" on a couple of conventional HDDs. There is nothing to be gained by keeping you

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread William H. Fite
My approach is similar to Brian's. I have the OS and the page files (is that still the right term under Win7?) on a small SSD and all the "stuff" on a couple of conventional HDDs. There is nothing to be gained by keeping your movies and music on SSD. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Brian Ll

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread William H. Fite
You can move it. IT departments do it all the time. That being said...I have found it a chancy business. But then I run a bunch of bench-built statistical applications that aren't always neatly and tidily put together. Neal can give you a definitive answer. Bill On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Don
Ok so here's a very basic question for you . If I purchase one of these drives, can I "move" (copy) the OS to the new drive or do I reinstall all the software to it? Don ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Alfred Green wrote: > Is there any significant advantage to going with a SSD for Flex > applications? There is no great advantage but, having said that, my radio computer uses an SSD. The main advantages are speed in booting, fast read access, less noise, and mu

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Ross Stenberg
winner! 73 Neal -Original Message- From: Ted Trostle Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:22 PM To: Alfred Green Cc: Flex Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives? What a great question !!! Would a flash drive also work ??? On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Alfred Green wrote: Is

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-24 Thread Neal Campbell (K3NC)
Z RevoDrve uses a PCIeX4 slot and I usually put it in the second x16 port. 73 -Original Message- From: Mickey Baker Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:32 PM To: Alfred Green Cc: Flex Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives? There's a good article comparing the two technologies

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-24 Thread Neal Campbell (K3NC)
0:22 PM To: Alfred Green Cc: Flex Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives? What a great question !!! Would a flash drive also work ??? On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Alfred Green wrote: Is there any significant advantage to going with a SSD for Flex applications? I really don't

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-24 Thread Mickey Baker
There's a good article comparing the two technologies here: http://www.technize.com/ssd-vs-hdd-comparison/ They're a lot faster, but remember that FLASH memory has a lifespan of 100,000 writes per cell. SSDs have dynamic reallocation algorithms to move data around so that you don't get "hot" cells

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-24 Thread Ted Trostle
What a great question !!! Would a flash drive also work ??? On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Alfred Green wrote: > Is there any significant advantage to going with a SSD for Flex > applications? I really don't see a lot of HD usage under normal operation. > It is a fairly recent box with an Inte

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-24 Thread NU8Z
Radio' Subject: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives? Is there any significant advantage to going with a SSD for Flex applications? I really don't see a lot of HD usage under normal operation. It is a fairly recent box with an Intel Core 2 CPU, Win XP, and is pretty much devoted to my F3000. PSDR

[Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-24 Thread Alfred Green
Is there any significant advantage to going with a SSD for Flex applications? I really don't see a lot of HD usage under normal operation. It is a fairly recent box with an Intel Core 2 CPU, Win XP, and is pretty much devoted to my F3000. PSDR 1.18.6 (I know, I plan on upgrading soon), HRD + DM7