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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on May 6, 2010 12:57:35 GMT
You do not want your operating system on a spinning disk, you want it on a SSD and then all the other stuff you put on a HD. Look what Anandtech wrote a few weeks ago about the best deal at the moment for SSD´s. You could go buy a couple of SSD´s and put them in RAID and have blasting fast performance - means your eye will not even notice when applications pop up on your screen and the read speed is out of this world. More important for daily use is the seek time of course - faster than any HD drive will ever be. You could have bought a couple of Intel X-25-V and put them in RAID-0 for only 250$ or bought only one and used that for your OS and installed Shift onto it. Then you would keep the Seagate HD for FRAPS. Read this article from Anandtech showing you what a pair in RAID-0 could do for your system - its awesome performance - wish I could just sell my Intel X-25 G1 and swap it for a couple of those babies. Poul I haven't been keeping up all the new technology but I do have a question about the Intel X-25-V, I currently have my OS on a Seagate 10,000 RPM HD. which is a smoking fast HD, I also read your article... Is this like a large capaicty thumb drive? and what is the redundancy, I have my drive D on three 500GB 10,000 RPM HD in a RAID 5 container. my c drive is a single 500GB 10,000 RPM drive Seagate also make a 15,000 RPM SATA 3 hard drive thats over the top in hard drive performance, what is the access time on that Intel X-25-V didn't notice any benchmark on it's performance. Are you configuring Two Intel X-25-V 80GB in a RAID 1 or a RAID 3 container?
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Post by Grnkjr0 on May 6, 2010 14:09:06 GMT
Hey Aaron I understand - just wanted to let you know that SSD´s are now so cheap (Newegg sold them for 98$) and having your OS on one of those would really feel like you just bought a brand new high end PC. Hey Sunny Your hardware are smoking fast - it is just the seeking time you lack. About the redundancy with two Intel X-25 V like in that article - there are none - one fails you lose it all. The best way to see the difference in loading time is perhaps to search youtube for videos showing you what it looks like. I found an old article showing you the difference in secs when you load an application and loading games. The difference is really there - but read the pages I linked. www.anandtech.com/show/2614/13Sunny best way of showing the difference: Should you like what you see you will need some help and at this forum people really knows their stuff. forums.tweaktown.com/f17/index3.htmlHaving your PC boot Windows 7 in less than 20 secs is awesome. Poul
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on May 6, 2010 14:26:07 GMT
I'll have to do a little more research, I do like the idea of the Virtual drive with no moving parts,
but in that video clip Intel rated there product up against Sam Sung. Sam Sung is not the leader in high speed hard drive technology... better comparison would be Seagate or Western Digital match up..
I wonder if you could ghost an Intel drive if one fails.. my redundancy is I have a ghost of my hard drive on a separate computer. I can burn that ghost file onto a DVD and reload my OS as if nothing had ever happen...
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Post by Grnkjr0 on May 6, 2010 14:43:59 GMT
Samsung along with Intel are now the leading SSD´s manufactors for the common consumer - there are faster SSD´s out there, but then they cost you more than your car. The benefit from having a SSD and your OS onto that - is the fast loading time for applications. When you click on a program you will see the program pop up on your screen faster than any spinng HD out there will ever be able to. Just do some reasearch Sunny and see some videos on youtube.
Poul
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Post by aarog5606 on May 6, 2010 17:43:42 GMT
Damn them loadings times are impressive. Especially for someone that has no patience. That will definetly be the next thing i do. Certainly worth $250 to me.
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on May 6, 2010 18:51:11 GMT
With my PC turn off, I can power up and boot into Windows in 46 seconds and be ready to clcik away....
Aaron I think Poul ment $250.00 dived by 2 = $125.00 each... If you mirror your OS on two of these Intel X-25-V. and if one fails the other Intel X-25-V will take over right? Poul, which is considered as RAID 1
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Post by Grnkjr0 on May 6, 2010 19:28:52 GMT
Yes Sunny - if one fails in Raid-1 you can get the data or buy a new disk to mirror the other disk on to, but get help from that forum if you ever decide to do SSD´s in RAID. There are a lot of things that needs to be set in BIOS and other settings to optimize performance when we are dealing with SSD. Aaron did you say that you wanted to buy a new PC sometime? I found one you could build Poul
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Post by aarog5606 on May 6, 2010 19:43:58 GMT
Omg! Wonder how much energy that thing uses, 2 x 1000watt power supplies... Defrag time was unbelievable!
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Post by Grnkjr0 on May 6, 2010 20:26:43 GMT
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Post by aarog5606 on May 7, 2010 11:21:15 GMT
Cool, i will try that out. Nice background btw, same one im using.
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on May 7, 2010 13:40:59 GMT
I would imagine that CPU speed has alot to do with it. I also noticed I downloaded a different version that what you have Poul. Anyway here are my results.
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Post by Grnkjr0 on May 7, 2010 16:55:01 GMT
Hey Sunny
I just graped that 15 days trial period one that they offered to get the full version. Something must be wrong here with your HD performance if you have 3 500 GB in Raid-5 Sunny. The D: HD looks to perform similar to mine.
Let us see how Aaron´s new Seagate HD will perform.
Poul
Poul
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Post by SPEEDFr3ak on May 7, 2010 18:49:10 GMT
I have a Seagte Barracuda 7200.12 500GB: Seq Read: 97.8mb Seq write: 88.9mb
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Post by aarog5606 on May 7, 2010 22:05:51 GMT
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on May 8, 2010 2:37:09 GMT
Hey Sunny I just graped that 15 days trial period one that they offered to get the full version. Something must be wrong here with your HD performance if you have 3 500 GB in Raid-5 Sunny. The D: HD looks to perform similar to mine. Let us see how Aaron´s new Seagate HD will perform. Poul Poul In a RAID 5 configuration you lose one drive for a parity drive, So with three 500GB HD I get 1TB in shortage space. If I lose one drive I can then replace it, and then the RAID controller will rebuild that drive back into the stripe. I use to build servers for Dell Computers, I configure a RAID 50 that had 32 Hard drive in one stripe, one massive volume, separated by multi-able partions....
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