Sweet ssd deal on newegg

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Not bad at all on this SSD. Kingston SSDnow V-series 128GB. Speeds are not quite up to Intel's drives, but close and $239 for 128gb is indeed a sweet deal. It does support TRIM, not many reviews yet on it and surely will not be as easy to setup as the Intel drive. My Intel 80gb gets actual read/write speeds of 260/90 . Just thought some may be interested.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...051410-Index-_-SolidStateDisk-_-20139135-LH3C
 
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sooooo tempting - still waiting for the price to drop a little more before I make the switch to ssd though :(
 
meh, i could care less about non Illindrix, Intel, or Sandforce


Looks good if you are on a budget.... If you feel the need for an SSD on a budget....
 
reflex99 said:
meh, i could care less about non Illindrix, Intel, or Sandforce


Looks good if you are on a budget.... If you feel the need for an SSD on a budget....
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reflex, please educate us on ssd that arent illindrix, intel or sandforce. whats the big deal on those companies (besides the fact that ive never heard of illindrix or sandforce)?
 
You know something , since my switch from the 920 to 930 , i haven't really timed boot. I'm gonna do one from power to windows logon, and another from the AHCI load screen which takes a moment itself. Its really quick though, ill post back in a few.

Which SSD controller do you prefer Reflex?
 
Indilix, Intel, Sandforce are the controllers inside the SSDs


There are others in the game but the high end SSDs (Intel, OCZ, Crucial) are made on those controllers. The memory inside the controllers is pretty straight forward, it's the controller that determines how fast/responsive the drive is.


Samsung will probably come in next after those, they use samsung controllers in a lot of the Corsair SSDs

Lastly, the cheaper "value" based SSDs which are still an improvement over standard HDDs, but lack when compared to the competition are made on JMicron Controllers.



I have a Corsair SSD, supports trim, uses the samsung controller and I like it..

boots right at 30 seconds from the beep after I hit the power button...


I don't think I'll ever go back to a standard HDD... cost is up there... but it's one of the few things you can do to a computer and actually feel a difference...
 
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30 sec still seems like a pretty long boot time. with just my normal 10,000 rpm drives i get 20 boot with openSuSE and just slightly longer with windows7 and im measuring from beep after hitting power to desktop with a browser autostarted.
 
Thank you much Kodiak, words very nicely put. You pretty much get an extra 48 gigs over the Intel, but still unsure which controller the Kingtston uses and thats a major determining factor when buying one of these especially at the cost per gig compared to spindle disks. With SSD performance its not just about read/write times, remember there is a near zero access time compared to 10ms average for regular HDD's as well as IOP performance.

Any machine i sit on without an SSD feels completely slow, unresponsive even when at 4 ghz +. Yes they are a bit pricey but you really really get what you pay for on this one, just AMAZING. Have gotten way too used to it and even my work rig that i am using to type this might get an Intel X25v 40gb if i can get it on sale. Slower read/writes than the 80 but it will do.

Forgot all about doing a timed reboot last nite... One thing i do know is when loading Crysis on my brothers machine with most of the same hardware, near same settings altogether, when im 100 % loaded , his machine will be right around 1/3 to 1/4 of the way loaded. Makes me smile with an evil look.
 
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30 sec still seems like a pretty long boot time. with just my normal 10,000 rpm drives i get 20 boot with openSuSE and just slightly longer with windows7 and im measuring from beep after hitting power to desktop with a browser autostarted.
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Alot depends on the motherboard if you are timing from when you hit the power button as POST takes X amount of time itself and varies between board and BIOS.

For example my BIOS has a a built in 10 second delay (for whatever reason) that you can skip manually by pressing ESC after the POST is completed.

I just picked up a 50GB SSD small capacity for the price, however I get speeds of 280/270 read/write. I use it to hold Win7 and a few apps while I have a samsung F3 1TB for games/storage.

After the BIOS hands it over to windows I boot in ~5-10 seconds (including logging in and launching apps like chrome). From total time after hitting power (and skipping the 10 second delay) <20-30
 
That's basically what happens to me, I hit the power button and have to wait some time before it even starts loading things.
 
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