Storage Solutions SSD Suggestions please...

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Ok, so I am getting tempted by the advantages of putting a fast SSD in my laptop.
Whats the best option for an SSD on a budget?

The only reasonable thing I see is the Kingston V+ series 40Gb (the crippled Intel) with 40 MB/s write and 170MB/s reads @ ~$110. Seems a good deal, considering the fast read speed and as a boot drive, random reads are what it will be doing most of the time anyway. So long as I get good performance, I can live with 40Gb for normal laptop use in a pinch.

1 problem I see is the lack of TRIM support (till now) for this thing, though its supposed to be coming soon from the news floating around on the web. Me already on Windows 7 by the way (RC at least :)).

Is there any other option below say, the 200$ price range? TRIM support would be most welcome. I am trying to keep costs down, and yes, I know I wont get the absolute best performance, but then, I am not running a rocketship of a laptop either ;)

Only if the Kingston had TRIM support... I would have already pulled the trigger... :(
 
40 MB/s write and 170MB/s reads
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Are you kidding me? the only reason people would buy a SSD is to experience it's performance and for that no one is settling for anything less than 500MB/s read or write.
 
broadway said:
Are you kidding me? the only reason people would buy a SSD is to experience it's performance and for that no one is settling for anything less than 500MB/s read or write.
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Now I usually dont do this, but you have no idea what you are talking about :)

So me a favor, google and tell me which SSD right now has those figures? :P

Fyi, the Intel X-25m tops out at like 250 MB/s. (Sequential Reads of course)

Look it up:

Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive - Technical Documents

Intel® Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives - Technical Documents
 
You are right.
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I was quoting things from wikipedia Solid-state drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At Cebit 2009, OCZ demonstrated a 1 TB flash SSD using a PCI Express x8 interface. It achieves a minimum read speed of 654MB/s and maximum read speed of 712MB/s.[7]

On March 2, 2009, Hewlett-Packard announced the HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator, the world's first enterprise flash drive especially designed to attach directly to the PCI fabric of a blade server. The mezzanine card, based on Fusion-io's ioDrive technology, serves over 100,000 IOPS and up to 800MB/s of bandwidth. HP provides the IO Accelerator in capacities of 80GB, 160GB and 320GB.[8]

In April 2009, Texas Memory System announced the highest capacity rack mounted flash storage unit to date, a 5TB RamSan-620. It has a throughput of 3GB/s and a sustained random read/write of 250,000 I/O's per second (IOPS). It utilizes high-speed Fibre Channel or InfiniBand interface for data transfers.[9][10]

On May 4, 2009, DDRdrive LLC introduced the PCI Express based DDRdrive X1. It integrates both 4GB DRAM and 4GB NAND for a total drive capacity of 4GB and targets IOPS intensive enterprise storage, achieving up to 300,000+ Random 512B Read IOPS, a power efficiency of 30,000+ IOPS/W, and a cost effectiveness of 200+ IOPS/$.[11][12][13][14] The next day Photofast announced the G-Monster-PROMISE PCIe SSD with capacity choices from 128GB to 1TB, with 1000MB/s of read/write speeds.[15]
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These were displayed around Q1/Q2 2009 and i assumed they had retailed by now. Anandtech has more here
 
Hmm kiddo is already churning money to pay for the SSD, nice...

And may I know the temptation... its a hot topic between me and tech_1978. :rofl:

+LT
 
linuxtechie said:
Hmm kiddo is already churning money to pay for the SSD, nice...

And may I know the temptation... its a hot topic between me and tech_1978. :rofl:

+LT
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The extra money is the temptation :) + the fact that it ll speed up my laptop which is wat I use for day to day use nowadays. And I usually have a lot of multi-tasking going on that will benefit from an SSD actually :)
 
techie_007 said:
The extra money is the temptation :) + the fact that it ll speed up my laptop which is wat I use for day to day use nowadays. And I usually have a lot of multi-tasking going on that will benefit from an SSD actually :)
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Multi-tasking :rofl::rofl: nice nice...

+LT
 
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