300% faster SDD?

steaky360

steaky360

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As much as faster SSD's is a good thing (progress is almost always a good thing) it may not lead to any 'real' gains to most users, remember most folk cant/don't/won't use the additional speed afforded by SSD's in general. Most folk use PC's either for general office work or gaming (I'd guess... maybe I'm wrong about that), neither really benefit from a SSD imo, ok so windows boots quicker (woo!!) but I don't use any programs that really benefit from being on the SSD compared to my Caviar Blacks.

Also, I think Keynes is correct in that the new method involves writing and not reading specifically, although it could technically speed up reads too if files are less fragmented etc.

This is just my opinion though :)
 
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Spuff

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steaky360 said:
neither really benefit from a SSD imo, ok so windows boots quicker (woo!!) but I don't use any programs that really benefit from being on the SSD compared to my Caviar Blacks.
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Do games and in-game loading times not benefit from an SSD? If Windows boots faster why would games not load quicker?
I've got a Velociraptor (got it for half price) as one of my other drives, and although I don't run applications from it and although it performs well, it isn't as snappy and fast as my SSD. Maybe that's because it's not the primary drive, I don't know.

It would be nice if a software change could improve performance, even if it is only for writes (although I don't think you would see much benefit from that).
 
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steaky360

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I have not noticed any real increases in load times etc. comparing games on the SSD to games on the HDD. But maybe there is noticeable differences for some games, no idea :)
 
Bsrz

Bsrz

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Here is an example of a SSD vs HDD gaming wise.

[video=youtube;FQpiZ44GyYU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQpiZ44GyYU[/video]
 
steaky360

steaky360

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Looks like pretty much 4 seconds, guess that's why I don't notice (assuming it's roughly the same for me). :)

It'll be worth it once the larger SSD's become slightly cheaper IMO.
 
mantadog

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it could make certain types of writes faster yes, but while we are on SATA 6 ports it will not be 3x faster headline speeds. The drives will still be limited by the bandwidth of the SATA 6 standard. I think the real progress in the SSD department is going to come from PCIe connected SSD's.
 
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fraggle

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steaky360 said:
As much as faster SSD's is a good thing (progress is almost always a good thing) it may not lead to any 'real' gains to most users
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SSDs can give very suprising results!

I've got a tiny netbook that had a slow HDD, running Windows 7 Home.

Every time I used it, as usual everything you run wants to check for an update (incouding Windows 7) and the netbook was unusable for the first 5~10 minutes with everything thrashing the HDD to bits, checking versions, installing updates. Even after that it was a case of "run one thing at a time" otherwise you could be typing away and it'd loose chunks of text, or (on better programs) just pause the 5 secs and then enter all the typed text at once, Firefox / Chrome would fall asleep when loading new pages, etc.

Due to that, it was simply used rarely, which caused the "updating" problem to get worse.

Chucked a spare 128GB OCZ SSD in (nothing else) and you would think I had upgraded the CPU and quadrupled the RAM. Loading Windows is far quicker, everything checking for updates now just slows down the programs slightly (before it'd basically stop them completely), and I can actually leave programs running in the background and things carry on working and don't bog down.

It's still a tiny netbook with an Atom CPU, but the amount of difference that adding the SSD has made is far greater than adding SSDs to my main (high spec) PC.

To say I was rather suprised at the ways the SSD had improved things was a huge understatement!

I know most people wouldn't even consider putting an SSD in a 7+ year old netbook that cost £199, but if you have one spare, try it!
 
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SlimCini

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steaky360 said:
Looks like pretty much 4 seconds, guess that's why I don't notice (assuming it's roughly the same for me). :)

It'll be worth it once the larger SSD's become slightly cheaper IMO.
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Let's say you load a game 15 times a day though then that's a minute saved. That means every 60 days of gaming you've saved yourself an hour of looking at a load screens ;)
 
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