Tinker Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Thumbs and toes right now over these. Have been highly recommended the OCZ RevoDrive 120GB PCI-Express Internal Solid State Drive However, I see that this 1 seems a touch cheaper and pretty much the same in performance: OCZ Vertex 3 Series SATA III 2.5-inch Solid State Drive 120GB What is the overall advantage of have a pcie card over the hard drive? If there is 1. Next issue: We put all the main operating system and essential stuff on the SSD. To use the advantage of the SSD, we need to install any programs or games that really need the boost? I see 120GB filling up quick. Original plan was to do this and install a 500GB HD for other things. Is it worth intalling 2 of these SSD drives and the other drive? 1 for essential stuff, 1 for games that need this. The other for lesser intense games, programs. So if I had a SSD with OS stuff, and all my games on another drive, it would be of no advantage? The SSD drive would only be able to read the other drive at the other drive speed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanMF Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 I have an Intel 160gb SATA drive and it's blazingly fast compared to a standard hard drive. You can drive yourself crazy looking for the fastest, bestest SSD out there, but at the end of the day any one of them is going to put your old hard drive to shame. Find something big and affordable. I would just make sure to get something with full TRIM support - most drives these days have that. 160gb is enough for my purposes - I don't tend to keep games installed unless I'm actively playing them. I have a server in the basement with a RAID array of regular HDDs that I use to store everything else. And I back up the SSD to that same server every night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pave Low Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 What is the overall advantage of have a pcie card over the hard drive? If there is 1. on paper, Speed PCI express slot = 8 Gbit/s SATA 3 = 6 Gbit/s But in reality, current home PC hardware limitations mean other parts of your system will probably bottleneck you before the PCIe SSD can reach the full PCIE speed potential for now most recommendations are to save the PCI express slot for graphics card that can and do make use if it Next issue: We put all the main operating system and essential stuff on the SSD. To use the advantage of the SSD, we need to install any programs or games that really need the boost? I see 120GB filling up quick. Original plan was to do this and install a 500GB HD for other things. Is it worth intalling 2 of these SSD drives and the other drive? 1 for essential stuff, 1 for games that need this. The other for lesser intense games, programs. Windows 7 should only take up about 20 Gb, so on a 120Gb drive, will still have plenty of space for applications and half-dozen key games (if can afford it they do a 240 Gb SSD) Sure, not everything needs to be installed on the SSD, can put some apps and lesser used stuff and data on the older mechanical drive If you can afford 2x SSD's then yes that would be a way to go, with an old TB mechanical drive retained for slower file storage all games will get some advantage from an SSD but not all games will make the best use of it most older game will initially load up a few seconds faster but then once game is "in memory" will not make any great use of SSD, so could still live on an older mechanical drive Whereas some newer games (EG Arma 2) will be constantly streaming data from the drive while you play So if I had a SSD with OS stuff, and all my games on another drive, it would be of no advantage? Not for the games, not really Windows would boot up in seconds and run much faster though you might get a tiny performance improvement where the system was reading the O/S from the SSD instead of also using the other drive, but not much Really need to also put the handful of core games (particularly most recent released big titles) on the SSD too The SSD drive would only be able to read the other drive at the other drive speed?Yes, only files on the SSD would get a read/save advantage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 Thnx for the detailed explanation. OCZ Vertex 3 Series SATA III 2.5-inch Solid State Drive 120GB ordered should be here within 24 hours. Can aLways grab a second down the line if the need comes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 zoom zoom zoom Taking the need for speed to another dimension. What will we be running in a few years time? Really happy with this, 5-6 seconds for W7 to boot up, even less to close down, wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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