Solid State Hard Drives

[dgrimm]

Who is using SSD in their SAC systems ? Any problems ?

[Dan Fulton]

running an ocz ulitmate boot drive 30 gig on my xp system. I love it system boots up in ruffly 10 seconds

[mojogil]

2 2-Space rack computers in my rack, both with 40 gig OCZ SS hard drives. Also have removable sata hd bays for recording data.
No problems. Blazing fast.

[KUI]

Ditto. Two years on my host.

KUI

[905shmick]

Almost 2 years for us as well. The decision to use SSD was not for speed but for sturdiness since we're a portable system that gets wheeled in and out of a trailer each week that also sees temps from -30c to +30c!

[Discipled1]

I have a OCZ Vertex 60 gig for my OS drive. I use hot swappable spin disks for my recording and archive drives. The OCZ drives don't have a trim utilities to date that I am aware of. The Microsoft SSD do have programs for trim. Make sure that you can utilize trim on whatever drive you go with. PS I installed XP in less than 5 minutes, WOW!

[Donnie Frank]

I have a OCZ Vertex 60 gig for my OS drive. I use hot swappable spin disks for my recording and archive drives. The OCZ drives don't have a trim utilities to date that I am aware of. The Microsoft SSD do have programs for trim. Make sure that you can utilize trim on whatever drive you go with. PS I installed XP in less than 5 minutes, WOW!

What is the "trim" utility, and why do I need it?

Thanx!

[Leadfoot]

After reading his post I had the same question, which sent me on an hour and a half journey through cyberspace getting clued in about it

The best thing I could say if you want to know what it is, would be to search SSD TRIM. I have a feeling you're probably doing that right now.

It would seem that these super fast drives could in time, be rendered almost useless with out it.

[JLepore]

No problems. Only moving parts in my machine are the fans.

As for TRIM support, even forcing these drives to do the whole read-erase-write cycle is STILL faster than a single write on conventional media. Yes, it can optimize a drive, but the downside is really not that bad,

[Discipled1]

Here is a link to info for TRIM : http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/sto...nce-and-trim/1

Make sure to read up on the SSD forum of you hard drive of choice. I hope this helps.

The quick and dirty answer is TRIM takes the garbage out!

Greg