[mdlug] Opinions - Should this be the core of my next desktop

Robert Adkins II radkins at impelind.com
Mon Sep 12 10:51:25 EDT 2011


Yeah, I've read that is has a mean time between failures of 51 years of 24
hour operations.

It's DRAM based, so it isn't subject to the death that every Hard Disk form
SSD on the market will experience from regular reading/writing use. I'm
really not wanting to use one of stanfard SSDs since Windows will constantly
be reading and writing to the drive with its "impossible to operate without"
swap file.

-Rob

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Chris Baldwin
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 10:11 AM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Opinions - Should this be the core of my 
> next desktop
> 
> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/ocz_revodrive_x2_240g
b_pci_express_ssd_review
> 
> There's a review for it, with a link to a list of 
> motherboards that'll support it. I haven't used it yet, but 
> if it pans out, this may be my next boot drive. Good luck.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On 9/12/11 9:56 AM, Robert Adkins II wrote:
> > It's getting to be about time to upgrade/replace my current 
> desktop at home.
> >
> > I do a significant amount of gaming on it, as well as Photoshop and 
> > home finance.
> >
> > I also have a server for storing and sharing data between the other 
> > PCs/Laptops in the house.
> >
> > This time around, I want some speedy, stable, fast and very quick.
> >
> > So, I am considering building around this piece of hardware:
> >
> > http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-x2-pci-express-ssd.html
> >
> > Obviously, I need to find a motherboard that will work with 
> this and I 
> > wouldn't mind being able to also use the onboard SATA 
> controllers on 
> > the mainboard to facilitate using a RAID 0 setup for a pair 
> of platter 
> > based Hard Drives for local storage of data. (Basically, I want to 
> > install applications, like games and when I may want to 
> still play it, 
> > but don't want to bother uninstalling and then 
> reinstalling, I'll just 
> > cut/paste the entire folder for the game to the traditional HDs and 
> > move them back when I want to use that game again.)
> >
> > Any opinions on this? There's a 160GB version of this available 
> > through Amazon.com for less than $300.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rob
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