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It's not the size that matters.. it's how you use it ;)
Crap joke aside, yeah 60GB is hardly anything..
Hardly anything?
This thing can read 285Mb a second and write 275Mb a second.
Let's see your shitty magnetic drive do that?
Yeah, I rest my case.
People who want gargantuan HDD storage space at affordable prices (for all your "legally acquired" data I'm sure) stick with hard disks.
It's a SSD (Flash Memory), so the key idea here is that it is incredibly fast at read/write access times.
Generally the best idea with one of these is to set it up as your operating system drive, so that windows/OSX/your applications open up instantly, and have another large drive to keep all your actual media.
Keep in mind though, early model SSD's have bad reliability problems and are supposedly slower than the modern equivalent. I don't know enough about SSD's to say whether this is a good one or not. (Although Corsair are supposedly good brands). Someone else may be able to comment.
he was talking about early models having reliability problems and saying that he's not up to speed with current ones ….. i'd suggest going to whirlpool to find out if interested.
This isn't and "early model" SSD though, it is the current generation…
which is why he put on the caveat
buy 2, put 'em in raid 0 config and you're laughing… :)
not for $280 I wouldn't….
"The TRIM command has been designed to maintain the performance of solid-state drives at an optimal level over the lifetime of the drive."
What is the "lifetime" of these drives ???
SSD degrades with each write. After a certain number of writes the cell will die; the number depends on the manufacturer; 100,000 is typical and that's about 3-5 years of normal desktop use.
Without TRIM the SSD has no idea which cells are in use and which aren't, and because of other limitations with SSD technology this results in wasted writes. This shortens the length of the SSD.
The manufacturers use clever techniques (write-leveling, cell remapping, garbage collection, content compression) to reduce writes, and TRIM really helps as well, but the drive will eventually wear out no matter what.
more like 20years mate.
Yes, I will be laughing… at anyone who did this.
i bought two 32s for the OS and basic office apps, rip data off at about 400MBs, but the big + is the almost 0 latency, i click something and it comes up… any faster and it would have to be telepathic/psychic.
I am using a 60GB SSD and it is enough room to run the os and your favourite programs. I run games and media from another drive. Once you have an ssd setup like this you will not go back. For those that don't know just how good an SSD is, a smaller cheaper drive is less of an investmentand but one that will open your eyes, it is well worth getting one. I would love a bigger drive but a 60GB setup is not too small unless you want to run everything off it.
From the corsair website.
Backed by Corsair — A respected name with a passion for great service and support
Maximum sequential read speed 285 MB/second
"Three year warranty"
That's reassuring…
Hi just wonder all these ssd sale include a 2.5 to 3.5 adaper bracket or I have to purchase it seperately? Cheers.
from above…
Included 2.5” to 3.5” bracket for installation on your desktop computer (Not included on F40)
So what memory controller does the Corsair Force series use? Sandforce? Indilinx?
Guess you didn't read the OP? ;-)
For one day only we are bringing this fantastic offer for a really fast, quality corsair SSD drive based on the sandforce controller.
I have this model and its pretty good. I bought it 3 months ago for $240 and the most recent price I found was $159 from netplus.
I have windows 7 ultimate installed with a few programs and its half full.
PS. Its gets a score of 7.4 under the computer performance part of windows 7 with my system.
ordered 1
Purchased one, can't wait to use it!
i've used a 64gb indilinx ssd for a year now, just sharing a few tips:
this way i've got adobe suite and heaps of other things installed, and still have 10gb of space left. would never use non-ssd for os ever again!
ssd changed my life.
60GB doesn't sound like much… :S