Just recd. my drive. Will start install in another couple of hours. Hope you got yours as well...
256GB/(16*60)s = ~266MB/s. Seems alright. Considering SATA 3.0Gbps will be limited to 300MB/s peak.Formatting the SSD (I did a FULL format not a quick format) took 16 minutes! That seems kind of excessive for a 256Gb SSD but as this is my first SSD I don't know what the norm is for this capacity.
You are one of the very few techies lucky enough to be truly content with his system!All in all, having an SSD is nice but its not as radical an enhancement as I was expecting considering my earlier drive was truly ancient.
My point about volatility wasn't the security, and I highly doubt anyone here will be using their home PC with that in mind. My point is that your storage medium is still the bottleneck, which a CrystalDiskMark benchie will not show.So while RDisks are volatile, that's not necessarily a bad thing. This is why I posted earlier that they are very useful if you understand their quirks and limitations.
Now with your RAMdisk + 80GB HDD, can you tell us how long it takes to hit your desktop (don't forget the wait for all the hard disk thrashing to end even after you see the desktop), for your RAMdisk to initialise, for Firefox to get copied into the RAMdisk;
> With an SSD when I start my PC, as soon as I see the desktop, I can hit Firefox and I'm on.
"Once I'm done, I can close firefox and shut down the PC within a few seconds.>
Is this whole process genuinely faster and more convenient?
I don't know how else to interpret this statement, but you said the SSD was slower 'overall', which implies you compared across OS/Apps/User-data/etc. And when you say 'slower', I assume you're referencing your older setup which comprised a mechanical HDD + RAMdisk setup.Of course SSD's have other advantages over RDisks but I think its my constant use of a Rdisk over the years that has kind of "spoiled" me in a sense where it comes to file load & execute speeds. You click something on a Rdisk and it just loads - instantly. I was expecting an SSD to be even faster overall (read/write) but it isn't - it seems slower (especially writes) though one might argue the difference is minor.
I don't know how else to interpret this statement, but you said the SSD was slower 'overall', which implies you compared across OS/Apps/User-data/etc. And when you say 'slower', I assume you're referencing your older setup which comprised a mechanical HDD + RAMdisk setup.
Your statement gives the impression that the HDD+RAMdisk combo is faster than an SSD, which seems a bit misleading since you aren't comparing storage mediums but storage mediums and caches.
Cache will always be faster than primary memory.So for me personally, its quite disappointing that a technology that has essentially been around for almost 25 YEARS - ie, RDisks, are still unmatched in terms of what it offers in terms of sheer read/write speeds versus SSD's that are much more "modern". Again, I specifically referred to one and only one parameter here while comparing the two namely read/write speeds.