does anyone use a ssd as main drive?

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IpanemaBoy

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i have the patriot 64gb drive, the thing is, this thing is slow on writing. am i doing something wrong?
 
All the cheaper SSD's use a Jmicron flash to SATA controller and are known to have the write stutter issue.. there is a "fix" for xp http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=323438

But it isn't really a fix, rather a work around.

The only real fix is to get the Intel X-25 if you want real SSD performance.. or stick to a standard HD.
 
Having 9 ssds 2 by intel and 7 by gskill. The intel ones are in my home rig with 4 gskills 128gig, I have two gskill in my laptop and one in my pickup. I have been running these for a while have not seen a hiccup out of any of these yet. The intel are speedy and spendy and the gskill thay do the trick they themselves are quicker than conventional drives especially when raided. I myself will never go back to conventional drives, even though I still have a crapload left over. The harddrive I use now is my 1tb just for backup purposes only. And yes I do use them as boot drives. But all in all will never go back to conventional hard drives at all, and have not seen any sort of slowdowns on laptop and home come maybe installing something but once its done it flys. My 2 cents
 
There's a LOT of misinformation out there, especially with respect to the JMicron controllers. There ARE things you can do to alleviate the write issues those particular controllers have, and while you can't get them to work anywhere near as fast as those Intel drives can go, you can get the actual manufacturer's specs for most of the SSD hardware floating around out there.

The best threads for such "tweaks" and how to make Windows (and other OSes) more SSD "friendly" are over at the OCZ forums:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186

There's a LOT of fantastic and very useful information there, so if you're interested, go check it out and do a lot of serious reading. Don't skim or you'll miss the most important things that matter. You can do a lot to improve the performance of that 64GB SSD you have, I guarantee it, and get damned fine performance all around.

Remember that even fast hard drives choke when it comes to random writes... Velociraptors too...
 
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