Other What currently makes your life awesome?

He's still a sceptical SSD virgin and wouldn't fork out the extra cash for a larger drive, despite saving $200 overall on his build already. I get a sneaking suspicion that a month from now he'll be ordering a bigger 120GB+ SSD to put all his games on once he sees how amazing they are.

 

That's for sure ! I knew SSDs were awesome but for the price I was still hesitating... Now however, I hate all the other PCs because they're just so slow and I would never, ever, ever go back to my raptors raid

 

at work photoshop takes 30 seconds to start. it frustrates me

 

Just as a comparison, my rendering machine which I also do all my office work on boots to the Win 7 desktop in less than 30 seconds, and loads PS CS5, AutoCad 2010 and Solidworks 2009 in less than 10 seconds each. That's 2x OCZ Vertex (V1) 120's in RAID 0 for the system and two 300GB Velociraptors in RAID 1 for data, all running off the P6T Deluxe's controller with a 4GHz i7 920 powering it. The Velociraptor array actually holds this machine back a little, as it has to spin it up to save/load any data or display any folders. It's still a little lightning bolt compared to anything else I've got though. Not even my gaming machine loads anything as fast as this does. It'd be faster still if I'd bothered to buy a PCI-E RAID card, but I'd find it hard to see the difference, and the £250 that using an onboard controller saved me went towards buying a second drive for data.

 

how are the SSDs coping with the lack of trim ?

 

Playing Race Driver GRID

Track: Okutama

Style: Drift GP

Laps: 3

Score: 10,896,164

Now looking to break the 20 million mark for the track in 3 laps. Desperately want a G25, but the simple xbox 360 pad will do for now.

 

GRID is not really awesome with the G25 anyway.. It feels like fighting a fking bull

 

Pah! Who needs SSDs?



Surely that's fast enough for anyone!

I'm not decrying SSDs, but how much faster would PS load from a SSD??

I'd still like a SSD for fast boot times however.. but it can wait.

 

It loads in exactly 3 seconds on my PC

 

Just imagine what I could do with those 5 seconds! LOL


Only kidding... 3 secs is awesome... and if it took 30 seconds here I'd be driving to Scan tomorrow to buy a SSD.... but to save 5 secs? I'll wait for them to become cheaper.


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Actually, it's 3 seconds in when I click the PS icon... so it takes 5 secs to load here... so I'd be saving 2 seconds

 

that's pretty impressive for regular hard drives... My two raptors in raid 0 couldn't do that at all

 

No too bad. You get Garbage Collection with OCZ drives in RAID, which deals with it fairly well, although still not as well as Trim does on the single Vertex in my gaming PC.

 

Good to know there's a solution however, even if it's not as elegant as TRIM.

 

Iron Maiden concert tonight.

 

Aaurrgh that makes me jealous

Awesomeness: its ramadan which is awesome in the UAE. My working hours are reduced from 07:30-17:30 to 08:30-14:30.

And because most folk aren't eating, work is slower in generally (hence me being here)

woo

 

SSD question time! I'll be getting a 13" MacBook Pro soon and will be ditching the optical drive for an SSD boot drive. I've been looking into it and it seems that an Intel X25-M would suit me fine. While OS X still doesn't have TRIM support I'm thinking in the mean time it will clearly be a decent investment? Any other SSD recommendations in the same kinda price range? £200 ish max. Volume is not particularly important. Purely speed. SLC is a bit rich for my tastes still though...

 

My laptop is coming on the 13th which is way sooner than the estimated 18th

 

17GB! Sorry, I'm not a Windows user... But that's massive! 30GB is just insane! A Snow Leopard install is like 5GB if you don't need all the extras and what-not.

 

I've just given my 'ancient' t-mobile G1 the froyo treatment and it actually runs it better than the stock 1.6 android.

 

I'm seem to have a new friend made. Gonna hang out with her this weekend very likely.