The Official SSD Club - Page 2

**DiscipleDOC** · 04-14-10, 09:59 AM

Here's an article on a roundup of 64GB SSD's...

**musman** · 04-15-10, 05:50 PM

Hi my name is musman and I have been addicted to SSD for two months.

shaker718 · 04-20-10, 10:19 AM

Just purchased a X25-m 80gb G2 drive as a birthday gift to myself. Should be here in a day or two. Now to back up my soon to be Broken RAID and get things ready for SSD-goodness.

**Rakeesh** · 04-20-10, 12:49 PM

Bought one a few days ago, due to arrive here on the 22nd. I'm a bit curious though, how have most of you dealt with getting the partition alignment right when formatting the drive for the first time in windows 7? Or does windows 7 handle this automatically?

For those who don't already know, the partition needs to be created so that it begins where the second data cluster begins, or else your drive won't perform up to its potential speed.

**DiscipleDOC** · 04-20-10, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaWolf_HK

Bought one a few days ago, due to arrive here on the 22nd. I'm a bit curious though, how have most of you dealt with getting the partition alignment right when formatting the drive for the first time in windows 7? Or does windows 7 handle this automatically?

For those who don't already know, the partition needs to be created so that it begins where the second data cluster begins, or else your drive won't perform up to its potential speed.

Win7 handles this automatically. I didn't have to format it when I first got the drive.

**zoomy942** · 04-20-10, 02:12 PM

so here is a question. Right now i have a 160 GB 7200RPM drive in my netbook. I was thinking of getting an SSD for it.

What prices and recommendations would you fella's put out there?

**Rakeesh** · 04-20-10, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by DiscipleDOC

Win7 handles this automatically. I didn't have to format it when I first got the drive.

Yeah I figured they'd throw on a partition already setup just for win xp users but I'm wondering what will happen should I ever need to repartition it.

04-20-10, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoomy942

so here is a question. Right now i have a 160 GB 7200RPM drive in my netbook. I was thinking of getting an SSD for it.

What prices and recommendations would you fella's put out there?

What I would do if I were you is get a cheaper 64GB for OS. some other files then keep the 160GB for storage.

**Maverick123w** · 04-20-10, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by zoomy942

so here is a question. Right now i have a 160 GB 7200RPM drive in my netbook. I was thinking of getting an SSD for it.

What prices and recommendations would you fella's put out there?

If you end up getting an ssd for it please let me know how much better the machine runs. I've been thinking about putting my 40GB intel ssd-v in the wifes netbook when I upgrade to a better ssd down the road.

**zoomy942** · 04-20-10, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearclaw

What I would do if I were you is get a cheaper 64GB for OS. some other files then keep the 160GB for storage.

so how do i know which kind to get?

04-20-10, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by zoomy942

so how do i know which kind to get?

Hopefully DD chimes in. He knows more. Although - check his sig. The one he got seems to be hot selling rightnow

CaptNKILL · 04-20-10, 04:31 PM

Can't wait to see Anand's review of the new OCZ Agility 2:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3663/t...dforce1200-ssd

It uses the Sandforce SF-1200 controller, and it should be much cheaper than the Vertex LE.

The performance should beat pretty much everything else in most cases, at a lower price, hopefully. 50Gb is smaller than I wanted to go, but for that kind of performance I'd buy one for the right price.

04-14-10, 09:59 AM	#13
DiscipleDOC Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Alabama, Planet Earth Posts: 5,933	Re: The Official SSD Club Here's an article on a roundup of 64GB SSD's...

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04-20-10, 10:19 AM	#15
shaker718 Brooklyn'd Out Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Brooklyn New York Posts: 489	Re: The Official SSD Club Just purchased a X25-m 80gb G2 drive as a birthday gift to myself. Should be here in a day or two. Now to back up my soon to be Broken RAID and get things ready for SSD-goodness. __________________ BIG RIG: Q6600 G0 stock / Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R/XFX ATI 5770/ Dell 30in 3007WFP-HC/8GB G-Skill/2x WD 640gb drives/ Enermax Liberty PSU/Win 7 64bit LAPTOP: HP DV6500T, 2GHZ T7250, 2 gigs Ram, 120gb HD, Nvidia 8400m

04-20-10, 12:49 PM	#16
Rakeesh Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sonoran Desert Posts: 6,853	Re: The Official SSD Club Bought one a few days ago, due to arrive here on the 22nd. I'm a bit curious though, how have most of you dealt with getting the partition alignment right when formatting the drive for the first time in windows 7? Or does windows 7 handle this automatically? For those who don't already know, the partition needs to be created so that it begins where the second data cluster begins, or else your drive won't perform up to its potential speed. __________________ Want to listen to audio without your computer going to sleep? Try this. Core i7 2600k 4.4Ghz 1.385v \| Corsair H60 \| 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 8-8-8-24 \| MSI P67A-G45 \| OCZ Vertex 3 \| Sapphire 7850 OC to Max settings

04-20-10, 02:12 PM	#18
zoomy942 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bellevue, ID Posts: 5,330	Re: The Official SSD Club so here is a question. Right now i have a 160 GB 7200RPM drive in my netbook. I was thinking of getting an SSD for it. What prices and recommendations would you fella's put out there?

04-20-10, 04:31 PM	#24
CaptNKILL CUBE Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: PA, USA Posts: 18,844	Re: The Official SSD Club Can't wait to see Anand's review of the new OCZ Agility 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3663/t...dforce1200-ssd It uses the Sandforce SF-1200 controller, and it should be much cheaper than the Vertex LE. The performance should beat pretty much everything else in most cases, at a lower price, hopefully. 50Gb is smaller than I wanted to go, but for that kind of performance I'd buy one for the right price. __________________ ---- Primary Rig ---- CoolerMaster 690 II Advance - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0Ghz + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme 6GB DDR2 @ 942Mhz 5-5-5-20 1.9v (2x1Gb Wintec AMPX PC2-8500 & 2x2Gb G.Skill PC2-6400) - EVGA Geforce GTX 470 @ 750/1500/1850 (1.050v) Sparkle Geforce GTS 250 1Gb Low-Profile (Physx) - Crucial RealSSD C300 64Gb SSD - Seagate 7200.12 500Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA ASUS VW266H 25.5" LCD - OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU - ASUS Xonar DX - Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround - Windows 7 Professional x64 ---- HTPC ---- Asus M3A78-EM 780G - AMD Athlon X2 5050e 45W @ 2.6Ghz - 2x2GB Kingston PC2-6400 DDR2 - Sparkle 350W PSU Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 250Gb SATA - Athenatech A100BB.350 MicroATX Desktop - Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic