SSD Experiences on speed

[jam_zhou]

My problem is I got one of those SSDs that had the sleep of death (Corsair Sandforce something)! It would not always wake up from sleep (S3) properly...it's totally dependent on the system and other components too. Now I can only use hibernate and it takes 45 seconds to boot up from. Once windows is done booting however everything loads up super quick.

The other con right now is that my remote can't wake the computer up from hibernate but can from sleep (except when it hits the sleep of death). As a result I only use hibernate.

[msmith8228]

For me the big issue was the sound level and not speed in my HTPC which is located in the living room next to the big screen.

In building a noiseless HTPC the SSD was a critical component along with a silent power supply , and noiseless CPU + GPU and case fans. My entire systems sits in the HTPC room and there is virtually no noise what so ever -- even in quiet portions of a movie. This allows me to use quite short cable runs from the computer to the display thus maintaining maximum sound and picture quality. Getting the SSD system to suspend and wake up with my remote control and a USB-UIRT was not an issue -- everything worked 100% after replacing to old drive with the new one (Acronis Trueimage backup from the old drive and full image restore to the new SSD drive).

[Pob]

Yep sound for me too - I use the power-saver setting in Win7 so CPU fan is slow and mechanical HDD's sleep quickly, so when watching live-tv I can barely hear the PC at all.
I used a program called Paragon Migrate to move my C: drive onto the SSD; nice and easy.
Don't notice any real difference in speed after booting, but then I only have Windows and GB-PVR installed on my little 64gb SSD. Win 7's experiance index went from 5.9 to 7.6 for drives though :-)
In fact in some ways it is slower, because following the SSD tweaks recommended on sites like this one ;http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/708...s-7-a.html I moved my temp IE files from C: , so now I have to wait for the drive to spin-up whenever I want to surf, or indeed launch any program that is not on the C: drive! Also I had stability problems using the recommended AHCI drivers, so went back to using native IDE instead. Don't notice any difference anyway...

[stustunz]

Intel ssd come with 5 year warrantee I think
So I'm not doing things like having temp files on another drive to me that defeats the reason for getting the fast ssd drive in the first place

[mvallevand]

I bought a laptop as a client and I opted for a traditional hard disk with a cheapish i7 figuring for the money, I wanted higher performance most. As it turns out the 5400 rpm drive is so silent that I can't hear it in quiet room less than two feet away and the notepad will resume from sleep with wifi connected before the lid has opened fully and I'm on the keyboard. As much as I love the idea of owning an SSD, IMO it is only a nice to have.

Martin

[mvallevand]

To continue from my last post, yesterday I configured my backend PC with a 120GB SSD that I got on sale for $85 plus there was an additional $10 off coupon. The hard part was moving the junk I had accumulated on the old 250 GB disk to make it fit under 120 GB plus to add room for live tv files (especially when they don't get deleted). Once that was done the migration (with an old Acronis utility included with the drive) of 80 GB C drive took about 10 minutes. Then I removed the original HDD (which now is a great system backup) and plugged in the SSD and so far so good. It's on Vista (which had to phone home and reregister which I saw as a good sign) and doesn't take advantage of the high speeds on new motherboards but I hope that this will keep this system alive for a few more years.

BTW one of things that really enabled this for me was 2.5.5's new option to record to selected drives. I can accumulate more and don't need the server on all the time.

Martin

[sub]

I've been using a 120GB Intel SSD for most of the last year in my development machine, but I'm finding things a little tight so I'm thinking about updating to a 240GB or 256GB drive in the next few weeks. I'll have to start doing some research on recommended brands at that size.

[imilne]

I have an 80GB Intel X-25 in my HTPC at home, and (had) a 160GB one in my work laptop. The latter just died spectacularly last week - some sort of complete drive failure, won't even show in the bios, etc. It was about 2 years old I think. I'm now running a (borrowed) 256GB Crucial C300 while I try to find out if the Intel one was still in warranty or not.

Luckily everything was backed up, apart from a few hours worth of new work I'd started on Videos+. That plugin really is doomed to failure

Iain