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Dom |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 19:49 |
quote: from what i read it charges when the system is on, but yea you obviously have a problem if it does :lol: But to be honest, i think it was meant for big corps. and their DB servers (and likes), where upon startup it could be all loaded into the DDR drive and then ran off there etc. DDR certainly isn't a viable solution to be used as an everyday OS drive and i dont think SSD are there yet either. | |
ed |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 19:35 |
and if the battery dies.............. | |
Dom |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 18:47 |
i thought the solid state drives used DDR 1/2/3 memory modules and just had a backup battery to keep the stored data - i know gigabyte released a 5 1/2" DDR drive and there was a few PCIE DDR cards (like so) - | |
Cosmo |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 18:26 |
yeah a slower write speed is one of the cons of a SSD. Faster read and near silence are the pros. | |
Bart |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 18:23 |
well i just ran a quick benchmark tool on my current machine and its telling me 44.9mb read and 54.5mb write. That doesnt seem that much different to SSD: | |
Cosmo |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 17:54 |
56MB/s read, 32MB/s write speeds. | |
Ian |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 17:51 |
Is this faster than something like Compact Flash? Last I read solid state using CF cards was considerably slower than conventional HDD. | |
Andrew |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 15:43 |
They will be good for games due to the size of the installation for all the graphics and sound. You are not going to get many games on a small chip. | |
Cosmo |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 10:40 |
from what Ive been reading it is fairly good for some games. Will obviously be of good use to creative pros when they come out in larger sizes. | |
Bart |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 10:39 |
quote: If im honest, i dont think your gonna notice a massive improvement in games. I think it will be loading times, startup times etc that will make the difference. Im not sure if 16gb is enough for vista ultmate plus warcraft, dreamweaver and creative suit 3, which is where I would hope to see noticeable differences. :look: [Edited on 16-10-2007 by Bart] | |
ed |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 10:29 |
16gb for £130 :| I think i'll wait, I'm happy with the speed of SATA II for now :) | |
Cosmo |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 10:26 |
:lol::lol: | |
James |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 10:25 |
quote: Agreed. | |
Cosmo |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 10:19 |
if your a serious gamer then yeah they are worth going for. | |
dannymccann |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 10:17 |
these the ones that are basically a massive flash drive that stay in your PC? they are definetly interesting and worth keeping an eye on | |
Andrew |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 09:03 |
I'm waiting for them to come down in price so i can get a larger one for a decent amount of cash. | |
Bart |
posted on 16th Oct 07 at 08:38 |
Im considering getting the Solid State hard disk for my main PC. Only the 16gb version, just enough to install Vista Ultimate on and maybe my most frequently used programs/games, and thus using my older SATA hard disk for everything else. |