my hdd recently crashed and im conidering buying a 32gb ssd to use as my C drive. Im using windows 7 with a dual core amd and 2gb ram. Has anyone used a ssd for there system drive and can tell me if this is a good idea , thanks?
OCZ Vertex 2 works great for me. Greatly increased I/O, and the fact it has TRIM function supported by Win7 is a bonus. If you don't know about TRIM or why you need it, read up before you purchase a SSD.
Some SSDs are good, others are absolutely terrible. Stick with either Intel, or OCZ Vertex 2 SSDs, nothing else is recommended.
They are great, but I think your system would benefit more from spending the money on something else.
windows will kill it in weeks.. useless constantly paging crap.. just spend the same money on 4 500gig ide drives.. they outlast the crappy sata ones by at least 5 years.. money well spent.
It's my parents computer, I want something thats going to last cause Im tired of being tech support for them. So does anyone else agree I should buy an ide drive? The previous one that died was sata. Only problem is they only have one spot on the mobo for ide, and theres only two connections on that ide flat wire, one is already being used but the optical drive, is there anyway I can extend that wire or buy something that will give me more connections? Other then a pci card, is there an extension wire I can buy or one with more then 2 connections?
hey, how long have you been using that as your system drive? and is the TRIM function something I have to enable or is it automatically used by win7?
ps355528: Please don't post if you have no idea what you're talking about. N0: There is no sound basis for what ps3 is saying, the interface has nothing to do with the reliability of a drive, and there is an enormous performance difference between mechanical drives and SSDs.
I realize the performance benefits with ssd's . I guess what Im most worried about it reliability. Will it last, and is there corrupt data issues.
Far far fewer than mechanical drives. As long as you disable defragmentation, SSDs will outlast mechanical drives by an order of magnitude.
I have used a 30GBVertex for over a year, and a 50GB Vertex2 for the last 4 months. TRIM is automatically enabled in Win7 plus there is a command line script you can run to ensure it is working properly. Agreed. However... Some of the issues ps35528 was talking about are valid, IF...BIG IF, you use an O/S like windows XP that doesnt support TRIM and whose write scheme is not aligned with what the disk likes. Or you use a cheapo SSD that does not self correct or have the TRIM option. Windows7 and some of the newer Linux versions have TRIM capability and need no special setup to align the disk. yes there is a limit to amount of writes to the disk a SSD can do, but its like 1000000 write cycles or around 10 years of life. SSD for a system drive, with regular HDD as data drive is the way to go.
If it is just about reliability, then you could just get a WD laptop hard drive...it would cost less, and it should outlast the rest of that machine.
Why specifically a laptop drive? I don't think there's much evidence that they are more reliable than desktop hard drives.
They seem to be a lot more reliable than desktop drives...failure rates are about the same in spite of the fact that laptops are exposed to g forces that would kill a desktop drive in a week. Just look at the PS3...how often do you hear about a hard drive failure?
Who carries around a PS3 like a laptop and exposes it to "g forces that would kill a desktop drive in a week"?
Plenty of cases of HDDs going wrong in laptops. Given the generification of errors with consoles, I imagine there are plenty of failed drives that were masked behind general errors, i.e. YLOD/RROD.
fyi I went with a samsung f3 hdd. They got good reviews over at toms hardware site. Ill be purchasing a ocz vertex 2 soon for my system drive , thanks for all the info guys
Just for the record, toms hardware is not at all trustworthy as they were bought out by a company to bias their reviews. Samsung HDDs aren't the greatest, but you should be ok with an F3.
LoL...this started as a search for a more reliable drive, end ended with a Samsung? Good luck buddy; you will need it.
