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Apollo686

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Just got my system setup and very impressed with the SSD performance. I don't think spindle drives will be around much longer:


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HDDs will be around until 2TB SSDs can be had for under $100. Its great what has been seen so far on this new technology. For me, I want to see programs utilizing the massive amount of RAM in my computer. I can dang near put my enitre OS on it, but it refuses :( Sorry, I'm just mad that I bought so much RAM right before the big DDR3 price plummet.
 
Its either 1 120gigger ( highly unlikely ) or 2 60 giggers or maybe 3 40 gig ones ?

Its a crazy score, so I would like to know what his setup is, cuz it pwns my 2 ones in raid 0, pwns them by a large margin.
 
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No single SSD or even doubles is going to offer that kind of raw read speed, it's gotta be 3 or more drives in a RAID 0 setup...

As for hard drives going anywhere, not for 10 more years probably. They work, they're proven, they're incredibly matured, and they're not going anywhere just yet. Even if 2TB SSDs were $100 as someone noted, I'd still be buying hard drives for long term storage, but that's just me I suppose.

Besides, if we start getting 2TB SSDs for $100, that means 10TB hard drives will be about $5.29. ;)
 
The OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCI-E will by quite a margin :D
 
Storage needs are increasing as fast as prices drop. By the time SSD's become cheap enough to replace magnetic media -

1. the average computer will come with 5-10TB disk space (so no ssd)
2. The next gen storage tech, with another exponential increase, like holographic storage, will start making an appearance.
 
I'm using an LSI 9240-4i with 4x Intel X25-E 32gb in Raid0. I have heard that I would get better performance switching to the LSI 9260 but I haven't tried that yet.

I agree that dollar to gig is much better on spindle drives now, but I really think we are going to see SSD dolar/gig marks accelerate much quicker than spindle drives. The use of Nand memory and the benefits from reducing manufacturing process size will push SSD's upwards of 1-2tb much quicker than spindle drives go up.

I also would feel much more comfortable storing long term data on SSD's than spindle drives. Maybe it will change in the future, but right now SSD's are so over engineered that they will last much longer than disks with moving platters. The actual tests done by storage manufacturers are really impressive and SSD's are exceeding them by a large margin.
 
Joe Average said:
Even if 2TB SSDs were $100 as someone noted, I'd still be buying hard drives for long term storage, but that's just me I suppose.
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I would to. I look forward to the day that we can run our full systems on solid state. For long term backup though, I would sleep better at night knowing my stuff was on good old HDD's.
 
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I'm using an LSI 9240-4i with 4x Intel X25-E 32gb in Raid0.
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Nice speeds.

How does it actually run in the real world? Everything you expected?

Is the LSI 9260 just an upgrade to your card and why do you think it would be faster?

I was considering one of those LSI cards and getting another Crucial C300 for RAID0.
 
Performance is fantastic, everything runs very quickly.

The reason for the LSI 9260 would be that it supports the native stripe size for these SSD's. The 9240 that I am using only goes up to 64kb stripes and thus I am not getting optimal performance out of the drives. Hopefully I can pick up a 9260 and see how much difference stripe size actually makes. I'm hoping for a healthy boost in performance.
 
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Performance is fantastic, everything runs very quickly.

The reason for the LSI 9260 would be that it supports the native stripe size for these SSD's. The 9240 that I am using only goes up to 64kb stripes and thus I am not getting optimal performance out of the drives. Hopefully I can pick up a 9260 and see how much difference stripe size actually makes. I'm hoping for a healthy boost in performance.
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IC says the Old Hippie. :)

I've been poking around a little and the 9260s are pricey while the 9240 is more my price range.

I've been waiting patiently for an Intel SATA 6GB/s solution but it seems if I want DDR3 + SATA6 I'll be waiting for awhile.

It definately wouldn't be a smart move to buy another Crucial drive and a 9260 card.....but that's what I'm thinking about doing anyway. :D

Definately not smart but I've never been known to be the brightest bulb in the pack. :)
 
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