Recent content by JasonSTL739

I have both in different machines, at capacity; and the only way you'd think that is by reading reviews that aren't testing correctly.... or are using some of the really crappy SSDs or old firmware.... If you buy Vertex's, or a version of the X25-M or X25-E you will be fine.

Yup. 1 SSD = 12 15k SAS disks, roughly. I benched 48 Seagate 15k 36GB SAS Disks in external enclosures on PERC6's with a TPC-C OLTP-style benchmark.... compared to four X25-E's on internal RAID.... and the four little drives beat up on the SAS disks. Fun stuff.

I came from four 15k SAS disks for my OS disk, and I feel the ssd's roast those. Single raptor to single SSD there is no contest. SSD will bury the raptor (assuming you get a vertex or intel based disk)

What brand SSD are you experiencing this on? I run the 120gb vertex in my laptop with 100GB or so on it all the time and while benches will show a difference actuall usage does feel much different.

Snag a single 120GB for your laptop, and welcome to the future. It will totally change the machine!

Stable yes, however I suspect future firmware will require a wipe. I don't find that to be a big deal, but I realize some do. v1.1 (1370) is the current release.

I'd go with less cache before I'd not have an SSD ;) If you are running a single disk for your OS, it should be ridiculously faster.

I ran 3, and then 4 30GB Vertex's, then swapped to 3X X25-E's in my workstation. Very little difference in use that I can tell - used the Vertex's for 40 days or so, Intel presently for around 30. Laptop went from 120GB Vertex to 80GB X25-M to 64GB X25-E, then back to a 120GB Vertex. Real...

Single 7200RPM drive to a Vertex is a gigantic difference to me in real world usage. Worth every dollar. To the point where I swapped every machine I have over to SSD for OS/programs/swaps, laptops, two systems, and an entire ESX server (6X 64GB X25-E's at the moment, running vSphere 4.0 with a...

The "best bang for the buck" in my opinion is hands down the Vertex's. Intel X25-E beats them all of course, but is spendy.

Here's a real-world whitepaper on SSD under SQL, if anyone is interested. (some of the reasons for having all these drives was for this whitepaper. It is all about the latency for end users. Interesting power differences though as a side note. 1 SSD = at least 12 15k SAS disks in IOPS/latency...

1 X25-E SSD = around 12 SAS 15k disks (on RAID0!) In most database environment, throughput it completely irrelevant. I'd suggest ignoring any posts in this thread about throughput. Maxing out the controller isn't an issue until you are talking around 30k IOPS. Even then, there is no...

I would do the two 32GBers. Perfectly fine - in fact I would encourage it - to use the ICH10R for SSD's You have something wrong, or misconfigured, in your system. No way you should see 100% usage. Also, it is actually the SATA controller that becomes the bottleneck should you run 4 of...

It is nice and simple: SSD will last longer than whatever disk you are using today. Also, who cares? Don't you backup your data????!?!?? TRIM will be something available in Windows XP, but I'd bet mainly by OCZ and other manufactures that cater to people like are on this board. They have...

TRIM will "fix" this issue effectively, but it isn't an SSD issue it is an Operating System issue (need to be in the OS) to be standard. But....OCZ has a beta tool out already with the 1370 that will trim the drive and help elminate the slow down issue. That said - in real usage the "slow...