Solid State Drive

[Devin Johnston]

I'm having a new system put together and I'm considering using a SSD for my main drive with a 250GB SATA as my secondary. I wanted to see if anyone was using one of these yet and what you thought about it's performance.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167005

[BOXXLABS]

if you work with large project/scene files, you may want to reverse that config.

 

- leave the spinning drive for your OS and use the SSD for your "working drive"

[Brian Cassil]

I looked into it for a new system I had built.http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/34858-time-new-computer-again.html

 

As I looked into them it appeared that there were some real issues with setting them up for typical usage becuase write speed is very slow. Read speed is through the roof, but if you install the OS on one of these (which would be the only benefit as I could see it, no way I could wait for large files to be written) it will constantly be writing small files to it. There are some work arounds for this but It seemed rather complicated and still a bit buggy. I decided to stay away for now. I think the future may be heading this way one day though.

[Devin Johnston]

It's obvious from what I've read that the SSD's have moderately slow write speeds, could you somewhat bypass this by setting all of your programs to use the secondary mechanical drive as your disk cache? That would eliminate most of the writing done by programs while taking advantage of the massive read speed.

[F J]

lol

 

www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-memoright,1926-10.html

 

"It doesn’t matter which benchmark pattern you compare; Memoright beats the pants off the conventional hard drives."

 

"If you can live with the fact that these drives will probably cost half of today’s cost or maybe only a third by the end of this year, then you can go for it, as you can be sure to get the very best hard drive available."

[ihabkal]

I would wait for them to get cheaper and better and then get two or three and raid 0 them. it is still a bit soon in my opinion to jump in there.

[Devin Johnston]

I think I'm just going to wait unitl the write times get better, a good 10,000RPM drive looks like it will be good enough for now.

[F J]

www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

 

www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535

 

"The Vertex is Nearly 3x as Fast" (with the new firmware update)

 

a couple Vertex SSD's r on their way here

[Greg Hess]

I'm currently running (as a default config)...

 

Primary Drive (program/system files)

Intel X25-M 80 gb SSD

 

Second Drives (Textures/Materials/Scenes/Data/etc)

Raid 1 WD Caviar Black or WD RE3

 

I'm a big fan of having some sort of redundant drive system setup for the actual data files. If the system/program drive goes down...that's recoverable. If you lose weeks of work...that's devastating.