How about some SSD reviews and comparisons to spindles.

dallas2727 · 08-22-2009, 05:42 PM

well?

lowlight · 08-22-2009, 06:53 PM

Great idea!

dallas2727 · 08-22-2009, 08:22 PM

since your excited, a primer of the technologies would be cool. Speeds, # of controllers, etc, and what it all means and costs.

dallas2727 · 08-24-2009, 07:12 AM

SSD in a PS3 or XBOX would be an AWESOME test to see also. I'd love to see the affect on load times of 3 different popular games.

Flunk · 08-24-2009, 09:00 AM

SSDs have been added to the PS3 by several people, but it seems that there is no advantage. Most likely sony limits transfer speeds for consistency.

Here's one link: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...a-SSD-in-a-PS3

The 360 would be interesting but would be difficult because the drives use a modified firmware, most HDD mods for 360s involve using hardware exactly the same as MS uses.

dallas2727 · 08-24-2009, 09:07 AM

Interesting, I actually expect there might not be a difference, since the read should be mostly sequential which is what HDD excel at the best and SSD's the worst.

dallas2727 · 08-30-2009, 08:13 AM

Hey LL, I highly doubt you've had any time to even think about SSD's yet but.... Any plans to do a review soon? Gotta ask because i'm real close to making an SSD purchase.

dallas2727 · 08-31-2009, 05:49 AM

Wow, so I had been lookign to get the Intel 80GB Gen2SSD. Seems like newegg gets a shipment every week or so, and it literally sells out within minutes. Each time the price bumps up 10-20 bucks, and limit 1 per customer. Talk about demand outstripping supply. This is digital crack right now.

Based on what I'm reading from peoples opinions and the current prices, I'd expect a year from now that it would be commonplace (but not yet standard) to have most hardcore PCs built with 2 drives, 1 OS/SSD and then a large slow cheap HDD for file storage. Someone will probably brand it "VistaZoom" or "Windows 7 with Double-Drive Technology ".

dallas2727 · 08-31-2009, 06:33 PM

Holy shit, newegg just got more stock, price jumped up to 500 dollars. Price WAS ~230 a couple weeks ago.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167016

Davis · 08-31-2009, 07:03 PM

I was reading about the OCZ offerings in the newest edition of CPU (only magizine in canada I think is worth a damn) and they actually really like it compared to the intel; It's not as fast (nothing is thus far) but it's much cheaper cost per gb according to their review.

I'd take a look at those if you're having a hard time getting the intel.

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