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JMicron based SSD worth it?
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I would pass on the Jmicron controller and get one with either an Intel controller or a SandForce controller. Indilinx is not SandForce.
Only if the JMicrons are 50% cheaper; but they are only 2-10% cheaper or so; which makes them very expensive for the low quality they provide.
The newer ones indeed support NCQ/TRIM; but it's still the worst controller and thus SSD; the controller is the primary component of an SSD; just like your CPU is the primary component of your computer; would you buy a JMicron CPU instead of AMD/Intel with much less speed and quality for only 10% less money? Well i certainly wouldn't.
Buying an SSD may not be the best time, as new SSDs will soon be launched. Wait until february 2011 and prices will go down rapidly and much better SSDs will be introduced.
Just avoid JMicron, Samsung and Toshiba. The funny story is that some SSDs got 'toshiba' controller instead; while this was just a laser-etched JMicron controller but with Toshiba name laser-etched on the surface; to avoid people recognising JMicron name and thinking it stutters like the earlier JMicron controllers did. So because of the bad reputation they laser-etched all chips they had with a different name. LOL; talk about brand value.
The newer ones indeed support NCQ/TRIM; but it's still the worst controller and thus SSD; the controller is the primary component of an SSD; just like your CPU is the primary component of your computer; would you buy a JMicron CPU instead of AMD/Intel with much less speed and quality for only 10% less money? Well i certainly wouldn't.
Buying an SSD may not be the best time, as new SSDs will soon be launched. Wait until february 2011 and prices will go down rapidly and much better SSDs will be introduced.
Just avoid JMicron, Samsung and Toshiba. The funny story is that some SSDs got 'toshiba' controller instead; while this was just a laser-etched JMicron controller but with Toshiba name laser-etched on the surface; to avoid people recognising JMicron name and thinking it stutters like the earlier JMicron controllers did. So because of the bad reputation they laser-etched all chips they had with a different name. LOL; talk about brand value.
That's a good deal, but still a lot of money for a quite low quality product. I personally would at least spend it on an Indilinx/Intel/Sandforce SSD and settle for some less capacity like 80GB.
And again, with coming SSDs, now may not be the best time to buy. When the newer SSDs release, the existing older ones would be forced to lower price; this would be the time to buy. I suspect the sweet spot to be after summer 2011; when the supply of new 25nm SSDs is optimal and older 34nm/50nm SSDs finding it hard to compete and have to settle for lower profit margins. That's an excellent time to buy.
But if you want something now, why not consider just a small Intel X25-V 40GB SSD for your OS+apps and buying a larger and faster SSD next year or so? This already gives you most of the benefits; your HDDs won't be affected by system disk I/O and thus become dedicated to data storage. That should mean you get the best out of both SSD and HDD for only little money.
And again, with coming SSDs, now may not be the best time to buy. When the newer SSDs release, the existing older ones would be forced to lower price; this would be the time to buy. I suspect the sweet spot to be after summer 2011; when the supply of new 25nm SSDs is optimal and older 34nm/50nm SSDs finding it hard to compete and have to settle for lower profit margins. That's an excellent time to buy.
But if you want something now, why not consider just a small Intel X25-V 40GB SSD for your OS+apps and buying a larger and faster SSD next year or so? This already gives you most of the benefits; your HDDs won't be affected by system disk I/O and thus become dedicated to data storage. That should mean you get the best out of both SSD and HDD for only little money.
15GB for a Win7 install, a large app would be 5GB i think.
So 40GB should be large enough; but you may want to put the My Documents folder and other stuff you store your personal data in, on your HDD instead. So only the 'system' and any installed program would run on the SSD, which is what benefits your speed experience most.
So 40GB should be large enough; but you may want to put the My Documents folder and other stuff you store your personal data in, on your HDD instead. So only the 'system' and any installed program would run on the SSD, which is what benefits your speed experience most.
my development machine has 38 gigs on the c drive.
windows 7
office 2010
visual studio 2008
visual studio 2010
1 VM box (2 gigs)
and many small misc small apps
Note that you can free up more space by:
- removing the pagefile; if you have enough RAM and your apps are 32-bit you don't really need it anyway
- remove the hibernation file, disabling the ability to hibernate (suspend-to-disk)
- turn off or reduce Windows Restore on the C: drive; which is a percentage of total capacity so af22, if you tested this on a large C drive the windows restore alone could be several gigs large.
- removing the pagefile; if you have enough RAM and your apps are 32-bit you don't really need it anyway
- remove the hibernation file, disabling the ability to hibernate (suspend-to-disk)
- turn off or reduce Windows Restore on the C: drive; which is a percentage of total capacity so af22, if you tested this on a large C drive the windows restore alone could be several gigs large.