SSD

[artmotion]

Originally Posted by Hehe

Use SSD for boot/app or DB loading... for this purpose alone, if you say a hybrid drive is enough, you are crazy..

A modern SATAIII SSD tops 500MB/s... and you definitely feels it comparing to any mechanical drive out there... hybrid or not.

If you happen to be on Mac, do what I do... I have SSD for boot, a 500GB 2.5" for temp. big files and a Promise Pegasus R6 for storage.

Promise Pegasus R6...

[RicePanda]

Originally Posted by terkan

just wondering since SSD have a "life" to it as the % health goes down does the performance goes down? or it just higher chance to prone to failure? i've been using my ssd pretty heavily for the last 2-3 yrs and it still at 97% life.. does it mean it's operating at 97% performance? or there's a 3% chance it'll crap out on me?

Fairly certain the % value is how much longer it'll be until it's expected to just be dead.

[finaldestinyx]

For the OP; ssds WILL die after they flush out their write cycles. Be sure to buy an SSD with trim or performance Will become rubbish after a few months. Avoid indilinx controllers since they're slow. The most reliable ssds are those by intel and crucial(I have an m4) . Speed wise, those with a sand force controller are generally faster than others but they lack high quality flash which makes it reliable . If you have the money , get a intel 520 series since you get sand force for speed and reliability from intel. Also ; to whoever mentioned Samsung ssds I don't think we can get them in Canada can we?

[asian_XL]

^ agree, never worry about drive failure. I spent way too much on storage over the past few years vertex + 500gb -> vertex 2 + 1.5T NAS -> Adata S511 + 2T NAS -> Adata SX900 and Vertex 3 max iops + 2T NAS.