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What these SSD drives are all about
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    AdmiralP posted on May 06, 2012 1:31:05 PM - Report post
     
    quote:
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    quote:
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    Apple's MacPro Using 4 SSD hard drive.
    Each one 2Tb

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    Price:
    Quad-core
    $2499

    8-core
    $3499

    12-core
    $4999



    [Edited by 64, 5/6/2012 9:10:26 AM]

    Actually, it's up to 4 512GB SDD, giving a total of 2TB.

    But either way it's a Mac, so why bother?

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    Evocati posted on May 06, 2012 6:49:45 PM - Report post
     
    It should also be noted that each of those 512 Mac SSD's can be yours for the low low price of $1400 each for a total of 5600. Makes you wonder just how good a price the Iphone really is.
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    Skyheart posted on May 06, 2012 7:02:51 PM - Report post
     
    Unfortunately, most new technology is expensive. I remember when 1TB+ drives were so expensive I could only wish to have one. Now they're as cheap as anything. It'll be the same with SSDs sooner or later.

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    DABhand posted on May 07, 2012 4:04:51 AM - Report post
     
    I think the SSD's that are being used in MAC's are Hybrids, half SSD and half SATA, i.e. waste of cash :P

    Best out there in terms of SSD isn't even a hard disk per say, its a PCI-e 1x Card that can handle 1.5GB/s both Read and Write... thats worth a fair bit of cash, and they can come in sizes of 1TB etc.

    But they are DDR memory with a good battery backup, and has a huge lifetime on them.
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    Lord Vader posted on May 07, 2012 6:00:56 AM - Report post
     
    i'm thinking about going in for a Corsair Force Series F120 Solid-State Hard Drive [120GB] . how does it stack up to a RAID 1+0 or 0+1 or a VelociRaptor in terms of actual speed?
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    Monkey007 posted on May 07, 2012 3:49:18 PM - Report post
     
    I'm really looking forward to seeing SSD's drop in price...

    I think HDD read/write speed is the bottleneck in my PC, is there any way of finding out?

    To clarify, I know my drive's speed but is there a way of finding out whether or not it's slowing my PC down?

    [Edited by Monkey007, 5/7/2012 4:11:35 PM]

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    Skyheart posted on May 07, 2012 4:14:32 PM - Report post
     
    quote:
    originally posted by Monkey007

    I'm really looking forward to seeing SSD drives drop in price...

    I think HDD read/write speed is the bottleneck in my PC, is there any way of finding out?

    To clarify, I know my drive's speed but is there a way of finding out whether or not it's slowing my PC down?

    [Edited by Monkey007, 5/7/2012 4:11:35 PM]

    Sorry Monkey, I have the point this out... SSD is Solid State Drive, so SSD DRive is Solid State Drive Drive . No offense intended, it's just a pet peeve of mine. Like people saying USB Bus - Universal Serial Bus Bus - and PIN Number - Personal Identification Number Number.

    Commonly referred to as RAS Syndrome - Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome.

    I agree though. I'm looking to get a Solid State Drive to either install games on or to use as my Windows drive. Just when they're more affordable...

    I could do with an app to check out my disk read/write speed and activity too. I have a relatively new drive (in terms of recently bought and a recent model/manufacture) and I get ridiculously slow loading times in games and when transferring files.

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    AdmiralP posted on May 07, 2012 4:50:08 PM - Report post
     
    quote:
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    I think the SSD's that are being used in MAC's are Hybrids, half SSD and half SATA, i.e. waste of cash :P

    Best out there in terms of SSD isn't even a hard disk per say, its a PCI-e 1x Card that can handle 1.5GB/s both Read and Write... thats worth a fair bit of cash, and they can come in sizes of 1TB etc.

    But they are DDR memory with a good battery backup, and has a huge lifetime on them.

    Any downside to the PCI-e 2.0 cards?

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