SSD

[Aussie]

For anyone building a new system or has a fast CPU and wants a speed increase, take a look at a the Intel SSD range.

Pros: very fast i/o, no moving parts,very quiet

cons: Still rather expensive per Mb

These things in a Raid 0 configuration are bloody quick. boot times are hugely reduced, but choose wisely as the cheaper models dont offer as much of a speed increase as the more expensive ones. If you have an app that is very high in disk I/O these things are brilliant.

[StephenF10]

There is a good write-up on SSDs in the December Australian Personal Computer. Read it before buying an SSD as there are some issues to be aware of.

Stephen.

[C0L0N3L]

I still think they are far to expensive to be considered for home use.. unless its in a laptop then there are some definite benifits.

Would be much better off running 2 32mb cache drives with 5-10 times the storage of 1 SSD with an equivalent price..

[powella]

I have an Intel SSD on the way for the laptop, as the current HDD parks it's heads on movement and really annoys me.

This is even with a 4gb Intel Turbo Memory chip.

I also run raid extensively on my desktop boxes, for both speed(games machine) and redundancy(video box).

It will be interesting to see how the new Intel SSD performs when it arrives.

Cheers,
AP