Solid State Hard Drives

**ol' boy** · 21-05-14, 12:03 PM

Anyone here used a product with a SSD?

I used a MacBook Pro with a SSD 12 months or so ago and it super fast and dead quite.
Boot time was 14 seconds on my friends machine.

I've just been looking at current prices and considering a laptop hard drive swap to a 480Gb SSD (the 1Tb are a bit $$$)
Does anyone know if these SSD's are compatible with the E2 Sat Boxes (Vu+, Dreambox, etc)?

**autotuner** · 21-05-14, 07:39 PM

I've got 130 or so windows laptops with SSD at work. Noticeably faster that a similar model with standard HDD,
Dumping a standard Win 7 image to them is about 5minutes as opposed to 20 or so for the HDD.
14 months of continuous use and no failures so far.
The nephews have a couple of Alienware laptops with a SSD cache drive, makes a big difference.
No experience with Satboxes, but a SSD borrowed from work had no issues in my PC at home.

**ol' boy** · 21-05-14, 07:43 PM

Thanks autotuner.
Thinking a Vu+ Solo2 with USB Terrestrial Tuner and SSD would make a great little unit.
Whisper quite and less heat issues.

Probably i bit overkill at current prices though. More useful at a Boot drive for a laptop.

**Seymour Butts** · 21-05-14, 08:05 PM

Much like AutoTuner we run SSD's in all our Laptops, similar quantity, similar length of time and we have had only two failures and both were covered by warranty and replaced, although in all honesty I believe the prime reason for failure were the users

I run a Dell PowerEdge Server here at home with 8 x 250Gb in RAID array and really haven't had any problems for about 18mths.

**Drift** · 21-05-14, 11:41 PM

Have a Hybrid SSD in my laptop and an mSATA SSD in my Linux/XBMC box. Boot & loading times are sensational and both have been rock solid. Lappy gets flogged and rarely turned off in 18 months as does the Linux boc (although thats only a few weeks old). I'd be reasonably comfortable putting SSDs in most applications these days although I still wouldn't trust them with critical data. No reason to expect anything currently running a standard SATA drive won't run with an SSD. The only thing will be whether or not the devices interface can actually take full advantage of the transfer speeds an SSD is capable of.

**Mr 672A** · 19-07-14, 09:35 PM

My new puter uses two SSD's 480 g/b Sandisk Extreme's and one 2 t/b SSHD. One SSD is for Win 7 64bit and other. I'm using an i7, Asrock H87 gamers M/B, gigabyte 750ti GPU and kingston memory. It takes about 7 to 8 seconds to boot up from scratch

**Mr 672A** · 19-07-14, 09:46 PM

I can turn it on, look at austech info, shut it down and the rest of the desktops are still booting up.

**mitc69** · 23-07-14, 02:07 PM

idk i cant tell the different beside when transfering files...

**Seymour Butts** · 23-07-14, 04:04 PM

If your looking to buy KOGAN are actually offering a very good price on 250GB units.
They are branded but with Samsung internals.
Probably a product overrun they have purchased.
I ended up buy 10 this morning - One of my regular suppliers was at $199.99 for 240Gb

**fred121** · 24-07-14, 10:42 AM

These are great, running two hackintoshs each has. 120 gb SSD for the os super quick compared to old mechanical beasts. Had no problems at all been using for about 18 months now

**wog** · 04-08-14, 11:14 AM

I run SSD's in all of my devices, and slowly upgrading all computers at home to SSD's.
currently i run an intel 520 128gb drive in my work laptop, and home desktop.
they boot up in seconds, my home desktop takes maybe 30 seconds, but that is due to the hard drives in it, and all that mumbo jumbo, when the windows logo comes up though, it is VERY quick. (i5 2500k, 16gb ram, 7 spinny drives, 1 ssd)
my work laptop is just soo fast to turn on, its not funny (i7, 16gb ram, 2 spinny drives, 1 ssd)(btw, its an acer 8950g, i removed the bluray drive as i never use it.

if yu an afford them, you get one, and have a spinny drive for storage.
i did some transfers from a 60gb ssd to my desktop, and they were insanely fast, thinking of putting another ssd in my laptop, just for my HypverV vhd files.

**alexmartin** · 16-08-14, 03:41 PM

SSDs are very expensive in terms of dollar per GB. However if you want max and common capacity SSD, you can only get 1TB not like with HDD you can get it upto 4TB. But when it comes to speed SSD is faster and boots PC in seconds. Durability goes to SSD as well since they don't have read/write heads which parks when the system is off.

**lsemmens** · 16-08-14, 09:41 PM

I remember when we paid about $100 per KB of solid state memory. SSDs are cheap by comparison.

**cmangle** · 17-08-14, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by lsemmens

I remember when we paid about $100 per KB of solid state memory. SSDs are cheap by comparison.

In 1986 I paid $200.00 USD for 1MB ram, $357.00 for a 52MB SCSI-2 hardrive to go with my Blazing 12mhz CPU equipped motherboard!

**myf360f1** · 20-08-14, 09:32 PM

I resisted migrating my PC over to a SSD, as have always used WD Black/blue drives and have been happy with them, but a mate bought a few too many SSD's so I got a 240GB Samsung EVO and OMG....... my boot times went from 42 secs down to 9. I have since swapped the kids PCs over to 120GB Samsung Evo's however one of them did not have a massive improvement in boot time but I put that down to the mobo. In overall performance I would highly recommend SSD's as read and write times are improved, low heat, no noise and compact all positives and as for the price they are falling by the day. Even if you just get a baby SSD for booting with an OS and then couple it with whatever storage you will see the benefits.