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For the longest time I have been skeptical about whether SSDs were really worth it. You get very little space for a pretty steep price and i wondered if I would see any real gains over my spin drives. Well after doing quite a bit of research, I finally broke down and bought a Corsair F40 SSD. After, reinstalling windows and getting everything up and running again I was very pleasantly suprised. Windows 7 would fully boot in 11 seconds (the longest part of the boot sequence was the bios post). Everything that i installed on the SSD would open and close quicker than ever before. It was the most noticeable performance increase in an upgrade that I have seen yet! So, with all my skepticism aside, I thought i would post some of the findings i have made (there is much more info out there, i just posted what i could think of right now 
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The primary use that i have seen most people (including myself) use and SSD for was a boot drive for windows. If you plan on gaming with an SSD, you will need 80+ gigs (depending on how many games you have). SSDs really shine on programs that that read constantly from a database (ie microsoft outlook) or need to load large files.
The SSDs with the sandforce controller are king currently (they boast the 285 Mb/s read, 275 Mb/s write) and i have also seen the least amount of complaints from them. However Intel SSDs still do really well and they dont have near the read/write speeds (mostly becuase the intel controller does well with random read/writes and they have been the most reliable)
Some other neat things about SSDs are they are totally silent, use little power, they are very small and light (2.5" form factor), and generate no heat (im sure there are more.....but thats all i can think of right now).
Setup was pretty simple. The corsair web site had all the step to optimize windows for use with a SSD (how to enable TRIM, ACHI, etc...) and now its off and running. So, I want to know if anyone else has similar stories about SSDs or are still on the fence on whether it would be worth it to get one. Ill edit this post as time progresses with updates on how the SSD continues to perform as well as with any new facts i aquire. If you have questions, ill do what i can to answer as well.
).The primary use that i have seen most people (including myself) use and SSD for was a boot drive for windows. If you plan on gaming with an SSD, you will need 80+ gigs (depending on how many games you have). SSDs really shine on programs that that read constantly from a database (ie microsoft outlook) or need to load large files.
The SSDs with the sandforce controller are king currently (they boast the 285 Mb/s read, 275 Mb/s write) and i have also seen the least amount of complaints from them. However Intel SSDs still do really well and they dont have near the read/write speeds (mostly becuase the intel controller does well with random read/writes and they have been the most reliable)
Some other neat things about SSDs are they are totally silent, use little power, they are very small and light (2.5" form factor), and generate no heat (im sure there are more.....but thats all i can think of right now).
Setup was pretty simple. The corsair web site had all the step to optimize windows for use with a SSD (how to enable TRIM, ACHI, etc...) and now its off and running. So, I want to know if anyone else has similar stories about SSDs or are still on the fence on whether it would be worth it to get one. Ill edit this post as time progresses with updates on how the SSD continues to perform as well as with any new facts i aquire. If you have questions, ill do what i can to answer as well.
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