Geekery

[Warthog]

This is what I was on about at the pub tonight:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-047-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=
Superfast boot times!

[fat_brstd]

yeah solid state hdd which is what we thought you were on about. limited to a max number of writes before it breaks itself.

[Warthog]

After which it would make one lovely coaster 8)

[KnightRider]

For more info. (http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/20/conventional_hard_drive_obsoletism/index.html)

Bit over priced at the moment. You could probably get just as good read write times from a decent raid array which would also most likely be cheaper and give you more storage capacity.

[ogden]

For more info. (http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/20/conventional_hard_drive_obsoletism/index.html)

Bit over priced at the moment. You could probably get just as good read write times from a decent raid array which would also most likely be cheaper and give you more storage capacity.

...and chew a shedload more juice and take up more space.

It's a hell of a lot of money for 64GB that's dog-slow on writes.

[KnightRider]

...and chew a shedload more juice and take up more space.

It's a hell of a lot of money for 64GB that's dog-slow on writes.

Fair point. Apart from some very nishe applications I dont think it represents value for money. Yes it would make games load quicker, but then I have 4gb of Ram and a raid 0 array so it isnt going to make that much difference to my machine. For ?500 there are plenty of other things I would rather buy.

[DanAbnormal]

You lot are such geeks!!!
















I do all my component shopping there as well. :cool:

[ogden]

...of solid state drives being rather pricey for what they do...

Fair point. Apart from some very nishe applications I dont think it represents value for money. Yes it would make games load quicker, but then I have 4gb of Ram and a raid 0 array so it isnt going to make that much difference to my machine. For ?500 there are plenty of other things I would rather buy.

The only time I've seen solid state drives used in anger was on a content distribution server which needed something very fast for indexing - the volume of data being written to the index was tiny but the number of reads and writes was enormous and the latency of physical disks was crippling things - a ramdisk would have done the job just as well in i/o terms, but they needed something rather less ephemeral.

But at home? Just to "make games load quicker"? Honestly, it's nothing but a gadget and, as you say, there are far more interesting things to spend the thick end of 600 quid on. ******, for one. You can get a very pleasant hour or two for 600 quid and after that you won't care how quickly games load.

[ogden]

Hmm. Seems the profanity-filter isn't too keen on practitioners of the world's oldest profession. But you get the drift, I'm sure.

[thor]

Can't beat the access times with solid state.

Flash storage is old hat though. RAM discs are where it's at!

[ogden]

Can't beat the access times with solid state.

Flash storage is old hat though. RAM discs are where it's at!

RAM disks are where it's at right until you want the data to be available across reboots or power cycles. As I said up there, great for ephemeral data, not quite so great for persistent data.

Also requires a 64bit OS to do effectively, particularly with Windows, where the memory model goes seriously screwy over 3GB on 32bit systems.

[DanAbnormal]

Surely a half decent raid setup would be preferbale to hoiking out 6 large ones??

[StreetHawk]

I'm feeling quite thick... :-(

[Colby]

Speaking of Geeks, the company I work for has just sponsored this lot: http://www.team-dignitas.org/

Professional gamers..... how do I get a job like that?

[the_lone_wolf]

before you all wet yourselves i'd read this article (http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/upgrades-and-peripherals/storage/news/ssd-failure-rate-is-10-20-per-cent?articleid=250415561)

as has been said, fast access times but slow sustained transfer rates

i'll stick to my raptors for now, more storage at a 5th of the price

[philbut]

I prefer to spend money on pointless bike enhancements personally ;-) so long as my PC can load my dirty mpegs I really don't give a monkeys. But I'm sure if i was into computers I would have to have one of these as it seems completely pointless and over priced!