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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: TR on October 06, 2010, 18:56

Title: SSD
Post by: TR on October 06, 2010, 18:56

Just installed one of These (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/233258) little beauties  :o: with a 1TB as storage space  :o

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: Clive on October 06, 2010, 19:51

Nice one Terry!   8-)

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: TR on October 06, 2010, 20:02

All I can say is WOW..what a difference the speed is now on the hard drive  :thumbs: :o:

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: Simon on October 06, 2010, 20:41

Hard drive speed is probably something you don't really notice, until you vastly improve it.  :thumb:  I'm a bit confused, though.  That one seems to be a 60Gb drive, so have you got two of them, the other being 1Tb, Terry?

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: TR on October 06, 2010, 22:33

Correct Si,   Operating system on the 60GB and storage etc on the 1Tb

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Post by: Simon on October 06, 2010, 23:21

Cool!  :thumbs:

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: sam on October 07, 2010, 04:58

solid state is phenomenally fast.. still I'm limited by the speed that the computer can pipe the data... when you hit that, you are screwed no matter what.

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: TR on October 07, 2010, 07:18

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv489%2Fhook7%2FComputers%2Fnewssd-1.png&hash=4fa5be873804c96bb1eae3d475f05ece8e21d3fa)

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: daveeb on October 07, 2010, 10:45

Quote from: TR on October 07, 2010, 07:18

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv489%2Fhook7%2FComputers%2Fnewssd-1.png&hash=4fa5be873804c96bb1eae3d475f05ece8e21d3fa)

 :o very impressive. I really fancy ditching mechanical drives myself, my only reservation being i've read that the number of read / write functions the drives can do are limited and the drive will slow down and eventually die. What is the projected life of these SSD drives ?

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: sam on October 07, 2010, 14:14

also remember there is no way of getting data back if the hard drive gets messed up, its not written on surface anymore.

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: sam on October 07, 2010, 14:15

bit of discussion on read/writes on the eeeuser wiki: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ssd_write_limit

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: TR on October 07, 2010, 15:16

Quote from: sam on October 07, 2010, 14:14

also remember there is no way of getting data back if the hard drive gets messed up, its not written on surface anymore.

The only data that is contained on the new SSD is the operating system as the rest is stored on the 1TB storage HD  :leer:

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: sam on October 08, 2010, 04:36

perfect, so you get all the speed advantages of the SSD without quiet the worry...but the answer is simple, multiple backups.. offsite backups... maybe I'm just paranoid.

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: Simon on October 08, 2010, 10:14

Ask Rik...  ;)

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: TR on October 08, 2010, 12:02

Loaded win 7 home premium in under 10 mins  :o:

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: Simon on October 08, 2010, 12:35

:woot:

Mind you, 1Tb of data is a hell of a lot to lose if it fails.

Title: Re: SSD
Post by: TR on October 08, 2010, 13:42

Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2010, 12:35

:woot:

Mind you, 1Tb of data is a hell of a lot to lose if it fails.

Now who is being paranoid  :laugh:


Seriously though..if you go through life with a what IF attitude would you get in the car and drive off??????