Hi,
I've looked at the benchmark comparisons of SSD'd on this site, but there is too much information. They list things like write speed, read speed, throughput read minimum and maximum, streaming read and write speed etc
I don't really know what a lot of this means, I read a review elsewhere that showed a normal 7200rpm hard drive booted windows in 58 seconds and that an SSD booted in 13 seconds.
Is this the main reason to get an SSD? so that I can boot windows faster?
I'f I'm currently using a Raptor 10,000rpm hard drive as my boot drive will i notice much difference. Also has anyone had experience with an SSD drive doing things like using PAR2 for paring files and also zip-7 for unzipping files? was it noticeably faster then a 7200 or 10000rpm hard drive.
I also get the impression that there are a few different types of SSD, i.e, you could look at say 5 100GB hard drives from different manufacturers and each one would perform at different speeds. At least with normal hard drives you can look at the RPM speed and the buffer size to get a good idea of performance, what do I look for with SSD drives?
Also, whats round the corner? I dont want to spend £150 on a drive today just to find they have some new memory type in a new drive next month that performes 25% better at the same price? Is there anything i should know about whats worth waiting for.
Finally, is the price gonna keep spiralling down, should i hang on another 2-3 months and save £50 or has the price drop slowed down alot?
If there's anything else you have experienced with them and think i should know, please tell me.
Thank you for reading.
I've looked at the benchmark comparisons of SSD'd on this site, but there is too much information. They list things like write speed, read speed, throughput read minimum and maximum, streaming read and write speed etc
I don't really know what a lot of this means, I read a review elsewhere that showed a normal 7200rpm hard drive booted windows in 58 seconds and that an SSD booted in 13 seconds.
Is this the main reason to get an SSD? so that I can boot windows faster?
I'f I'm currently using a Raptor 10,000rpm hard drive as my boot drive will i notice much difference. Also has anyone had experience with an SSD drive doing things like using PAR2 for paring files and also zip-7 for unzipping files? was it noticeably faster then a 7200 or 10000rpm hard drive.
I also get the impression that there are a few different types of SSD, i.e, you could look at say 5 100GB hard drives from different manufacturers and each one would perform at different speeds. At least with normal hard drives you can look at the RPM speed and the buffer size to get a good idea of performance, what do I look for with SSD drives?
Also, whats round the corner? I dont want to spend £150 on a drive today just to find they have some new memory type in a new drive next month that performes 25% better at the same price? Is there anything i should know about whats worth waiting for.
Finally, is the price gonna keep spiralling down, should i hang on another 2-3 months and save £50 or has the price drop slowed down alot?
If there's anything else you have experienced with them and think i should know, please tell me.
Thank you for reading.