Geekery

This is what I was on about at the pub tonight:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...atid=14&subcat=
Superfast boot times!

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

After which it would make one lovely coaster

[KnightRider]

For more info.

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]

Originally Posted by KnightRider

For more info.

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]

Originally Posted by ogden

...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.

You lot are such geeks!!!
















I do all my component shopping there as well.

[ogden]

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

Originally Posted by KnightRider

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.

Can't beat the access times with solid state.

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