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

[Dan Pritts]

It looks like a very nice solution, although it seems like a hassle to use that instead of just a SATA drive.  Odds are pretty good you won't saturate sata 6Gbps, altough i guess with photoshop swap files it's possible.  

It also looks like the device isn't actually much faster than 6Gbps.  700MBps = 5600Mbps.  I don't know what real-world throughput on 6g sata really is, that surely affects the calculation.

I do not see where it says that it's DRAM based?  If it were i'd expect it to be a lot faster on reads.

In my (limited) experience Windows doesn't seem to actually use the swap file if you have enough memory.

Note also that the SSD makers known darn well that people will be putting windows swap files on these things, and they have to be engineered to tolerate it.

I guess you could also just put your swap file on a dedicated partition on a hard disk, but that seems nuts to me; windows won't use it that much under normal circumstances, and if it DOES use it then you sure want it to be on fast storage.  

On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Robert Adkins II wrote:

> 
> 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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