What you need to look for in an SSD is: a) TRIM support - otherwise performance degrades over time b) a chip with good caching to alleviate poor random write performance of MLC SSD (no SLC SSD are affordable) - Intel second generation is a golden standard and quite affordable, but Agility also has the 'good' Indylinx chip with 64MB of cache, so you should be fine. I wouldn't worry about the ...
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Started 3 months, 2 weeks ago by Little-Zen
OCZ's 60GB Agility drives are getting close to my affordable range and I was thinking to pick one up after my next paycheck or two. I remember reading a while back that some early SSDs had a problem with partition alignment on XP, but that Vista didn't have the issue. I couldn't find anything about performance in Linux at the time. Some googling revealed a few very in-depth posts from 6+ months...
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elh replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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The Shadow replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago
quote: Originally posted by elh: What you need to look for in an SSD is: a) TRIM support - otherwise performance degrades over time note the first - no operating systems currently support TRIM; so while it will one day be important, right now it's not really so much. note the second - the Intel X25-M SSDs, for a "golden example", are still better than an order of magnitude faster after ...
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K0DE replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago
quote: TRIM has been implemented in Linux 2.6.28, released on the 25th of December 2008. In Windows, TRIM has already been implemented in Windows 7 release candidate and Windows Server 2008 R2. From Wikipedia. Also from the OCZ site (yes, they have a ball in the game but it should be appropriate) claims it's very important to align the partitions, as does Microsoft .
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Little-Zen replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I've been following the articles at Anandtech regarding SSD performance. I'm itching to get one for all of my systems, but right now I think one is about all I can afford. The Indilinx controller was pretty much the only option in my mind, mainly because of both price but also the TRIM support; those drives have upgradeable firmware so when the support rolls around I could update it. ...
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The Shadow replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I've done four installs of the Intel X25M, and one of a Samsung 16GB SSD. Didn't do any partition alignment for any of the above, just installed like regular hard drives. The Samsung is pretty slow on the top end - about 30MB/sec flat out - so it doesn't really feel all that fast... until, that is, you get the exact same hardware (Dell Inspiron Mini 10v) with a conventional HDD. Which is ...
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K0DE replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago
We should be getting a pair of X25M disks next month for testing. I am looking forward to it
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Little-Zen replied 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Sounds fantastic. I'm hoping I don't get hit with any unexpected bills so I'll have the spare cash to pick this one up then.
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Little-Zen replied 3 months, 1 week ago
Well I happened upon a deal in the Agora for a 60GB OCZ Vertex that I just couldn't pass up, and I had just enough in my paypal account to cover it. I had to run a BIOS update on my motherboard as it seemed to lose connection to the drive on a restart (Intel DG45ID); after that I haven't had any issues. Installed Ubuntu 9.04 on it and I was really surprised at how big a difference it made. ...
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ivanolo replied 3 months, 1 week ago
So... umm... would switching to a low-end SSD from a 5400RPM HDD provide a noticeable speed bump for a general use laptop? Anything I should know when installing XP on an SSD?
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Wudan Master replied 3 months, 1 week ago
quote: Originally posted by ivanolo: So... umm... would switching to a low-end SSD from a 5400RPM HDD provide a noticeable speed bump for a general use laptop? Anything I should know when installing XP on an SSD? Don't because XP sucks on SSDs.
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