Sold State Harddrives, a few questions

[Darmz]

Hello, ive recently considered buying a solid state hd of 32gb, which id "like" to hook up to my pc(E6600, XFX 680i Mobo, 2gb ram, 8800 GTS XXX ed, 2 X 250gb Sata II drives). My question is, what connection type do these drives require, will it hook up to my mobo without any issues/need for other cables, and if so which cables. Finally, i would like to also ask if its possible to use the SSD drive as my boot drive for xp, and install files for my "main" few games, i then plan to have the 2 X 250gb as pure "storage" drives. Has anybody used one of these drives? ive heard there upto 64 X as fast as a raptor, which is currently £129.99 over here, and for £250 i could buy the SSD instead.

[sushrukh]

You can use that drive like/with your regular drive & you can boot from it too.These drives will come with all the needed connectors.Mostly they are coming with a Sata Interface.You just need a regular Sata Power & Data cable.That's it.You shouldn't have a problem using it in your mobo.

[tyle6]

Damn i cant wait untill these come down in price. if you do grab the SS . def. post some benchies here. i would love to see what sort performance sustained data rate you get on that machine!!!. it is fairly similiar to mine, ive been thnking about SS drive for awhile they just cost soo darn much.
cost/storage ratio is really high!
i believe they are as reliable as a drive comes these day too, no??

[Xero (1)ne]

i believe they are as reliable as a drive comes these day too, no??

Three letters:
E.M.P.
:lol:


But yes, please do post some benches for us.

The results should be brilliant.

[tyle6]

LOL E.M.P is going to be a problem when they get us with it for more then just HDD's LOL wait... are you saying reg. HDD's are not affected by EMP?

[PP Mguire]

Why dont use ask Schwarz who already has one?

[Kougar]

A solid state drive is not 64x the throughput of a Raptor. Only a couple specific SSDs offer throughput that even compares to a Raptor, so you should look around for reviews of the specific drive you are looking at before making that costly a purchase.

SSD drives are much faster in seek times, even compared to a Raptor, but seek alone is not enough to win all the benchmarks. But even then, they are not even close to "64x". Going by other reports, you would shave several seconds off your boot times though thanks to the better seek times.

[PP Mguire]

And not only that, cut down alot of weght and heat.

[SonicWRX]

If you are going solid state give this a look
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34065/135/

I'd like to get two (for redundancy) of these for my company once the windows drivers are out for it. we could really use the speed that these things have.

['Amp!']

That's even faster than the GIGABYTE iRam.

oooooohhhh

Though at $30/GB it is a TAD pricey. (No I did not forget a decimal point)

[PP Mguire]

Sheesh a 32gig one is extremely exspensive! I think id get a terabyte drive first.

[sushrukh]

Sheesh a 32gig one is extremely exspensive! I think id get a terabyte drive first.

I wonder when general HDD makers will adopt the technology.It would have been much better if we could purchase them from Hitachi,WD or Seagate. :smile:

[PP Mguire]

I still dont justify the price. Id rather buy a 1 terabyte drive instead. Mmm Seagate 7200.11

[Ranzear]

I still dont justify the price. Id rather buy a 1 terabyte drive instead. Mmm Seagate 7200.11

And it has 4-5ms response with a far faster sustained read rate.

$330 on newegg right now, though personally I prefer my 960gb striped trio.