solid state drives faster than raptor or cheetah

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Binarr

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"As long as you have a very intricate backup solution and you do not mind sacrificing slight redundancy for more performance, these drives will simply annihilate the SCSI/SAS and SATA Raid and single drive competition on the market today. Although we should have many new SSD products on the horizon including the IO Drive by FusionIO, not to mention we already have the super fast RamSan. 2008 is going to be a prosperous and beneficial year for storage technology"

http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/
 
Binarr said:
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"As long as you have a very intricate backup solution and you do not mind sacrificing slight redundancy for more performance, these drives will simply annihilate the SCSI/SAS and SATA Raid and single drive competition on the market today. Although we should have many new SSD products on the horizon including the IO Drive by FusionIO, not to mention we already have the super fast RamSan. 2008 is going to be a prosperous and beneficial year for storage technology"

http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/
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Unless you go into that article wondering “How can I get the highest synthetic benchmark numbers possible using the most unrealistic and unaffordable method possible?” then I’m not sure what you’re going to get out of that.

The performance from a single drive is really nothing to write home about, with transfer rates about equivalent to that of a Seagate 7200.11 drive. The access time is very nice, and the drive definitely has some IO potential in a multi-user environment but let’s not forget that you’re talking about 16gb of space for almost $800. For the price of a single drive you could buy two 8800GTS 512 cards and go SLI; this guy is actually recommending buying two of them. $1600 for ~36Gb? No thanks… I already use a 36Gb drive as a boot/os/games drive and its really not enough to install more than a few games on top of your OS and it becomes an extremely annoying limitation. I can’t imagine paying that much for a drive and not even being able to put all my games on it.

IMO, where it’s at right now is using several drives in Matrix raid. Using just the fastest part of 2 or 3 drives and making a raid-0 boot/os/games partition out of it will yield you much more usable space, with transfer speeds that exceed the SSD drive, and reduced access time, approaching that of raptor drives using nothing but 7200rpm drives. You can then take the remaining space on those drives and make another raid-0 partition or something creative like raid-5, etc.
 
If the drive dropped in price by a factor of 5, I'd very likely get one.
 
I will be RAID0ing as many of these that will fit in my case when the price comes down and when Intel fixes their dang SSD limiting bug in their ICHXR SBs.
 
Hard drives seem more and more like antiques to me. Can't wait until something better becomes viable.
 
Well I can't speak to the speed of the Raptors, but I'm very happy so far with the 32GB Mtron SSD I just picked up. I picked up the older enterprise model MSD-STATA6025-032-N-A (100 MB/s read / 80 MB/s write).

HD Tach reports 93.7MB/s read on my nForce4 Athlon 64 3800+ (7% CPU utilization). I couldn't get the write numbers since I didn't want to pay for HD Tach.

Loading a savegame in Hellgate:London went from 34 seconds to 14 seconds (Monument Station).

Loading Oblivion Mod Manager went from 7 seconds to 4 seconds.

I can definitely tell the difference this drive makes. I love how fast XP boots.

Defraging the drive is unbelievably fast. I'm thinking of writing a program to test whether defraging is even needed on one of these drives.

After formatting the drive, there was only about 30GB available. I'm able to have The Witcher, Oblivion, and HGL loaded with about 3GB left over (XP 32bit, 2GB swap). My Oblivion install takes up about 3GB more than normal because I have a lot of mods.

I'm happy enough with the size for now. I have a dedicated gaming machine and I usually only play one or two games at a time. I usually restore my Ghost image after completing every two games or so. This always ensures my game machine performs at top levels. I figure that for right now, if I find I want to install something else, I can always move one of the other games off to one of my USB hard drives, or my NAS, and move it back again when I want to play it again.
 
Waldorf said:
Well I can't speak to the speed of the Raptors, but I'm very happy so far with the 32GB Mtron SSD I just picked up. I picked up the older enterprise model MSD-STATA6025-032-N-A (100 MB/s read / 80 MB/s write).

HD Tach reports 93.7MB/s read on my nForce4 Athlon 64 3800+ (7% CPU utilization). I couldn't get the write numbers since I didn't want to pay for HD Tach.

Loading a savegame in Hellgate:London went from 34 seconds to 14 seconds (Monument Station).

Loading Oblivion Mod Manager went from 7 seconds to 4 seconds.

I can definitely tell the difference this drive makes. I love how fast XP boots.

Defraging the drive is unbelievably fast. I'm thinking of writing a program to test whether defraging is even needed on one of these drives.

After formatting the drive, there was only about 30GB available. I'm able to have The Witcher, Oblivion, and HGL loaded with about 3GB left over (XP 32bit, 2GB swap). My Oblivion install takes up about 3GB more than normal because I have a lot of mods.

I'm happy enough with the size for now. I have a dedicated gaming machine and I usually only play one or two games at a time. I usually restore my Ghost image after completing every two games or so. This always ensures my game machine performs at top levels. I figure that for right now, if I find I want to install something else, I can always move one of the other games off to one of my USB hard drives, or my NAS, and move it back again when I want to play it again.
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If anything, the MTRON 6000 are a much better deal, given how much cheaper they are than the new MTRON 7000, and are only a bit slower.
 
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