Solid State drive !?!

[jbrown]

sorry if im behind on this...but i just seen the solid state drives on the the config page. someone school me on what this is/does please. would it help me out ? says up to 2 times faster...and i want fasttttt...lol! 8)
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[theDreamer]

Solid state drivers do add speed, I need more information to actually see a writable difference, but it does have its advantages over normal HD. Though I just feel it is to early to jump on the boat, 64gb is the max and that barely olds much in my opinion, maybe once we start seeing them break 100 I would consider it more.

[RottynDawg]

You could always RAID5 a bunch of them together :)

[jbrown]

oh i see; i thought it was a extra drive for something. no 64g is nothing...lol!

[RottynDawg]

I'd be curious to see how much of a performance gain, if any, they offer. If it is significant, 64GB would be plenty for the system drive with everything else stored on a big SATA or SAS drive if necessary.

[MyThLoSt_]

I thought that they were spendy too?

[theDreamer]

Solid state does provide am solid increase in speed, but for the price an size it has not shown to be better. Give it time and of should move forward, but then something new may come around.

[jbrown]

from what you all told me; im guess it will be time to update when ddr4 memory, solid state drives, and bigger dx10 vid cards are out and used a lot more. also when sli mode is more main stream and more capable motherboards are out.

thats what i would probably have now if it where available. vista bugs will be worked out, sli will run smoother as well as dx10. ddr4 will be on everything and motherboards will run 10000000000000gb of ddr4 memory. man how fast is our next gaming PCs going to be ?! :D


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dx11 even...ohhh