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Old 08-28-2008, 09:25 PM   #1
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Solid State Drive Performance Inquiry


I was looking into building a new machine, and I was curious if anyone had experience with solid state drives and knew a bit about their performance?

I found a few on newegg that boast some pretty nice numbers, but I've been bitten before by hype, so I wanted to see if anyone has experience with SSD's and knows their performance capabilities firsthand.

The one in particular I'm looking at (likely for a RAID array...probably RAID 0 or 5 since this is a non-critical machine) is here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820183202
 
Old 08-28-2008, 09:32 PM   #2
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SSDs would indeed be much faster than conventional hard drives, but a word of caution on not only the price, but also be aware that they would probably have a much less number of write cycles compared to conventional drives. Just be because they have no moving parts, does not necessarily mean that they are going to last longer. Many high speed read/writes can quickly render the device unusable, and replacing said drive will be even more expensive since SSDs are priced higher, and plus also probably do not have as much capacity as a conventional drive.

I think in the long run of things, you are better off using a conventional drive, particularly in a RAID configuration. That doesn't mean that you can't use a SSD in a RAID configuration, but you have to consider that so many read/writes will kill the drive much quicker, and is the speed really wroth the price and replacements over time? I guarantee you that you will be replacing those SSDs more than you will a conventional drive.
 
Old 08-29-2008, 05:20 AM   #3
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SSd's (consumer grade - there is also enterprise grade for a higher price) are touchy when it comes write cycles - they can only take about 10% of a conventional drive.
If you use it for storage no problem.If you use it for the OS or anything else write happy (swap,log files...) expect trouble soon.

Have a look here

On the other hand - buy as many as you can afford.Somebody got todrive the prices down :-)
 
  


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