SSD Drive upgrade?
Discussion
A lot of my work is in systems reliability and performance and I'm always striving for faster data transfer rates. I shudder to think how many different arrays I've built over the years.
Anyway, recently acquired my first SSD in the shape of a Crucial C300 on a proper SATA3 controller and can safely say the performance gain you'll get from putting a decent SSD in almost any system makes it a worthy investment, above and beyond what you'll see from possibly upgrading other areas.
Linear rwrops are ok but it's the random rwrops that make the difference. As a little benchmark with a real world example; opening Photoshop CS5 x64 from a 4 disk RAID10 array using 7200rpm SATA2 disks on an Adaptec controller, it'd take around 12 seconds to open, because of all the billions of little modules involved. The SSD working on its own will pop it open in under 2 seconds. It just makes systems more pleasant to use.
I still have reservations about building arrays with SSDs but that's a huge subject I don't want to get into
Anyway, recently acquired my first SSD in the shape of a Crucial C300 on a proper SATA3 controller and can safely say the performance gain you'll get from putting a decent SSD in almost any system makes it a worthy investment, above and beyond what you'll see from possibly upgrading other areas.
Linear rwrops are ok but it's the random rwrops that make the difference. As a little benchmark with a real world example; opening Photoshop CS5 x64 from a 4 disk RAID10 array using 7200rpm SATA2 disks on an Adaptec controller, it'd take around 12 seconds to open, because of all the billions of little modules involved. The SSD working on its own will pop it open in under 2 seconds. It just makes systems more pleasant to use.
I still have reservations about building arrays with SSDs but that's a huge subject I don't want to get into
cyberface said:
But not all SSDs are the same and having the same brand of flash chips and the same capacity means jack. It's all in the controller firmware, baby...
How about this one?http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Dri...
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