[Win7boy]

http://www.storageah...-128g-g25-.html

Snagged myself two of these

[compnovo]

Win7boy, on 18 November 2012 - 07:43 PM, said:

http://www.storageah...-128g-g25-.html

Snagged myself two of these

We're running a Sandisk in my wife's tower and it's been very reliable. Congrats!

[LiveBrianD]

I'm thinking about getting one myself, if I can get a Samsung 830 or 840 cheaply (probably 128GB).

[compnovo]

LiveBrianD, on 18 November 2012 - 09:27 PM, said:

I'm thinking about getting one myself, if I can get a Samsung 830 or 840 cheaply (probably 128GB).

You'll never go back.

Which rig would you put it in?

[LiveBrianD]

Actually, I'd like to put one in each machine at some point. For the laptop, it's about durability, and with the desktop (along with the existing hard drives), it's all about the POWER!!!

[Win7boy]

Oh my goodness.I Never knew just how much faster these were then regular HDD's.My bootup times have been 2-3x faster,And games are a whole lot smoother.

[waldojim]

Win7boy, on 22 November 2012 - 05:49 PM, said:

Oh my goodness.I Never knew just how much faster these were then regular HDD's.My bootup times have been 2-3x faster,And games are a whole lot smoother.

They are amazing aren't they!

[LiveBrianD]

How much has general desktop performance (not games since I rarely have time to play those nowadays - stuff like web browsers, email, coding programs, etc) improved for you guys? So far, I've found that due to caching, there isn't much lag after everything has loaded (slow right after logon though). I haven't seen any good deals on the 830 so far, so I haven't bought anything. (I'm a bit surprised, since that's a popular drive.)

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 23 November 2012 - 08:16 PM

[Win7boy]

All the little things are faster,like login times for games,how long it takes a folder to pop up,etc.I Got a 256GB SSD For the XPS Today at BestBuy

[waldojim]

I don't have to wait on caching. I don't wait on anything. The laptop is almost fast enough to seem predictive.

[LiveBrianD]

But what I'm saying is, all the usual programs (except games, which I rarely play, and Eclipse) load nearly instantly after the usual hard drive thrashing after logon. I don't think you can get much faster than that - or can you?

[waldojim]

Trust me, moving from a spinner to a SSD is an experience like no other. Once you do it, you will find that things you waited on before are instantaneous. Things you didn't even realize you were waiting on.

[smax013]

LiveBrianD, on 23 November 2012 - 10:56 PM, said:

But what I'm saying is, all the usual programs (except games, which I rarely play, and Eclipse) load nearly instantly after the usual hard drive thrashing after logon. I don't think you can get much faster than that - or can you?

For very basic tasks, you might not notice it that much, but you likely will still notice it. I REALLY notice it when I run Windows in a VM in Parallels.

I know that my 11" Air has always felt faster than my more powerful MBP because of the built-in SSD (both have C2D but the MBP is 2.8 GHz compared to the 1.6 GHz for the Air). The MBP is now on a more even level since I did make the boot drive an SSD (I removed the optical drive so I still have a 1 TB "spinner" for the data, so I don't get the full benefit).

[compnovo]

LiveBrianD, on 23 November 2012 - 10:56 PM, said:

But what I'm saying is, all the usual programs (except games, which I rarely play, and Eclipse) load nearly instantly after the usual hard drive thrashing after logon. I don't think you can get much faster than that - or can you?

It's just like the others have been saying, the whole computing experience improves. Sometimes it's obvious but more often it's in subtle ways.

The only PC in my house that doesn't have an SSD now is the media center, I pulled it to put into the netbook when I gave it to my wife. The good news: the netbook rocks now. The bad news: I'm reminded of what I moved up from on the media center.

This post has been edited by compnovo: 24 November 2012 - 07:44 AM

[LiveBrianD]

smax013, on 24 November 2012 - 01:48 AM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 23 November 2012 - 10:56 PM, said:

But what I'm saying is, all the usual programs (except games, which I rarely play, and Eclipse) load nearly instantly after the usual hard drive thrashing after logon. I don't think you can get much faster than that - or can you?

For very basic tasks, you might not notice it that much, but you likely will still notice it. I REALLY notice it when I run Windows in a VM in Parallels.

I know that my 11" Air has always felt faster than my more powerful MBP because of the built-in SSD (both have C2D but the MBP is 2.8 GHz compared to the 1.6 GHz for the Air). The MBP is now on a more even level since I did make the boot drive an SSD (I removed the optical drive so I still have a 1 TB "spinner" for the data, so I don't get the full benefit).

True - I bet my VMs are being tortured upon bootup with the old spare hard drive I put them on.

[brainout]

Yeah, that and Amazon SSDs are the ones I trust the most. Please let me know how it works for you, if you're in the mood? Thank you for your time!

(Been thinking about a hybrid laptop; ZaReason sells them, but so do many others.)

[LiveBrianD]

Amazon doesn't make SSDs.

[Win7boy]

He probably means the SSD's on amazons website;what brand are you talking about brainout?

[waldojim]

And truth be told, I would trust Newegg far sooner than Amazon.

But brainout probably does think that Amazon makes them...

This post has been edited by SnyperTodd: 25 November 2012 - 08:52 AM
Reason for edit: removed personal attack

[brainout]

LiveBrianD, on 24 November 2012 - 01:28 PM, said:

Amazon doesn't make SSDs.

Yes they do, I just bought some in May. Used it today, 32GB.