I've seen the performance of ssds and they will Leave you speechless.
However they are mucho dinero.
On 22 May 2010 08:36, Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net wrote:
I shall wait until it's hard to go wrong with SSDs vs hard to go right :)
(That and the prices will continue to drop)
On Sat, May 22,
I've heard the horror stories of malfunction, trim sucking, etc... I think they
are GREAT
just not ready for prime time yet.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:02:07AM +0300, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
I've seen the performance of ssds and they will Leave you speechless.
However they are mucho dinero.
I've been using one now for 5 months. It's great..wouldn't consider
changing or going back now. Also, a lot of vendors are putting them in
high-end laptops now.
the extra cash becomes rather meaningless after you've been living with
one for a while. Virus scans are nearly instantaneous. And
Anand doesn't expect the price to drop significantly this year. Even with
the recent die shrink from Intel/Micron and Samsung they haven't passed
along the savings to consumers yet. Next year we can expect the prices to
finally start to fall more and within 5 years the mechanical hardrive
Aside from Intel the only other SSD's that I would be interested in are
the Sandforce based SSD's.
As good as they are, they are too rich for my blood.
However, if my Raptor dies, then I may seriously consider getting a SSD
drive, but nothing less than 120GB.
-Original Message-
It seems my new build has an issue I read about many weeks ago.
In regards to the new XFX ATI HD 5870.
The gray/brown screen with bars I noticed the last few days playing
rfactor and iracing that pop up occasionally. It's been reported
before by ATI users and I would have hoped by now that this
At 12:01 AM 22/05/2010, DSinc wrote:
You always do share good problems! Do you perhaps have ash fallout
from the Iceland volcano ATM?
If so, all bets are off... :)
Not yet. :) Wrong side of the Atlantic. I do hear that it reached
NFLD at one point.
T
At 07:23 AM 22/05/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I've been using one now for 5 months. It's great..wouldn't consider
changing or going back now. Also, a lot of vendors are putting them
in high-end laptops now.
the extra cash becomes rather meaningless after you've been living
with one for a
If you're looking at Sandforce, take a look at these:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro
There hasn't been another die shrink from IMFT (Intel/Micron Flash
Technologies) yet. They dropped prices around 60% last year when moving from
50nm to 34nm, and the move down to 25nm will not occur until later this
year. It will also require an updated controller.
-Original Message-
Interesting piece here on the Intel SSD:
Sequential Access - Read up to 250MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to 70MB/s ? SLOW ??
Kingston SSD V+ series. Newegg has a 64GB for $180 that has nice read
AND write speeds.
Sequential Access - Read up to 230MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to
The V series isn't that good from what I have read.
Nowhere near a performance drive. Just a standard drive, good for netbooks
maybe.
-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of GPL
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010
Intel-Micron Flash Technologies Ships 25nm NAND Flash: Bigger USB Keys,
SSDs Coming
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - by Ray Willington
Process technologies continue to shrink at an alarming rate. It wasn't
long ago that 65nm seemed tiny, and now Intel is shipping out NAND Flash
based around
Yes, sequential write performance isn't that important. It isn't irrelevant,
but if you're buying an SSD for that responsiveness feeling, you want to
focus more on random 4KB write performance. Whereas even a 10k Raptor will
struggle to deliver more than 3 or 4MB/s in random 4K write, my RAID0 SSD
There is a big difference between a press release announcing availability of
the raw NAND IC components and it being designed, validated, and productized
into a full SSD with a required new controller. Those likely won't be out
until Q3 at the earliest. I can absolutely guarantee you that there is
Oh I agree completely that we end user won't see anything for several
months yet. I just wanted to point out that 25nm NAND flash exists right
now and is being shipped in volume from IM's FAB in Idaho. 25nm is real
now but that's still not small enough. I tend to agree with Anand that
2010
I should have more carefully stated that 25nm NAND (or 20nm class in
general) is not available in any SSD yet rather than state that it isn't
available in general. However, I was trying to point out that your comment
that Even with the recent die shrink from Intel/Micron and Samsung they
haven't
My comment wasn't fair? I was only agreeing with Anand and we'll see if
the cost savings from the latest die shrinks get passed along this year. I
suspect they won't..
On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:25:06 -0500, Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net wrote:
I should have more carefully stated that 25nm NAND
Last year I picked up a circa 2007 Thinkpad X41 Tablet on Ebay for
under 300 bucks. I wanted something easy to carry around with long
battery life but with a useable screen size and I really like my X41.
I have Windows 7 tablet available to me and I am thinking of
installing it on my X41
I disagree with Anand, then. When Intel introduced the Gen2 SSDs based on
34nm NAND, they did so immediately at a price point substantially under
their existing 50nm products. With the very first unit, prices dropped. The
other manufacturers then had to follow suit, as they were even cheaper than
I got Win7 installed on a older laptop ...it doesn't even support the
ATI Mobile Radeon in there...but it runs in VGA mode at 1024 x 768.
I also have regular Win7 installed on my Dell Latitude XT, a tablet. It
works just fine...and it's not the tablet version.
I say go for it. Win7 runs on
On Friday 21 May 2010 22:59:23 Scoobydo wrote:
If you've had experience of several bad CPU's then you must be a
system builder with hundreds of builds under your belt. I'm just a
hobbyist and have only built 20 or so boxes over the years and I've
never even heard of anyone having a CPU go bad
On Saturday 22 May 2010 03:24:27 DSinc wrote:
Scoobydo,
If I dig in by bone pile I could offer you a brand new old stock
and only use once, spare for your current P2-333. I bought mine
because it had some special S-Spec #. If interested, I can share
critical numbers.
I've just binned around
Got this older machine we use at the house thats a P4 3.2 with a
9800XT ati card. Been running windows 7 on it. Last two weeks it's
been OK with its use.
Today it seems the desktop is very slow, goes dark screen, waits to
come back online with the working hour glass type circle spinning,
seems to
24 matches
Mail list logo
