http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:29:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-726688 man friday Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:06:34 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-726688 Might be interesting to have a best practices or tips and tricks in one convenient place on how to put temp, cache and other write data on another drive. Mind you write data becomes read data as soon as its written so effectively the price of my hod rod drive is about to increase because I am still putting data elsewhere and cached data is where it is for performance related reasons anyway. I for one will be happy to pay extra for the speed boost but only pay once, happy to wait for SLC SSD and not bother with relocating data. Might be interesting to have a best practices or tips and tricks in one convenient place on how to put temp, cache and other write data on another drive. Mind you write data becomes read data as soon as its written so effectively the price of my hod rod drive is about to increase because I am still putting data elsewhere and cached data is where it is for performance related reasons anyway. I for one will be happy to pay extra for the speed boost but only pay once, happy to wait for SLC SSD and not bother with relocating data.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-726009 Optimize Slow Solid State Drives Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:28:32 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-726009 [...] Solid State Drives (check the OCZ Vertex review for instance) are slowly introduced that beat conventional hard drives fair and square both [...] [...] Solid State Drives (check the OCZ Vertex review for instance) are slowly introduced that beat conventional hard drives fair and square both [...]

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-713970 OCZ Z-Drive Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:42:05 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-713970 [...] the other hand seems to be one of the driving forces in SSD technology at this point in time. Their OCZ Vertex drives look really promising in both read and write performance. Old Solid State Drives usually [...] [...] the other hand seems to be one of the driving forces in SSD technology at this point in time. Their OCZ Vertex drives look really promising in both read and write performance. Old Solid State Drives usually [...]

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-659480 Thinker Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:56:06 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-659480 30GB OCZ Solid with RAID 0. Should be fast. But it is fast only on big-block operations, like file copy. Installing an application makes windows almost freeze. 30GB OCZ Solid with RAID 0. Should be fast. But it is fast only on big-block operations, like file copy. Installing an application makes windows almost freeze.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-657779 Martin Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:51:42 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-657779 Thinker what's the model that you got? Thinker what’s the model that you got?

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-657775 Thinker Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:47:55 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-657775 Martin, I got 2x30GB OCZ Solid SSD and am TOTALLY disappointed. Max read speed I got is 240MB/s. BUT what is it for, when random 4KB reads (NTFS cluster size) shows, that 2xSSD is SLOWER than 1 old HDD 2 times! Martin, I got 2×30GB OCZ Solid SSD and am TOTALLY disappointed. Max read speed I got is 240MB/s. BUT what is it for, when random 4KB reads (NTFS cluster size) shows, that 2xSSD is SLOWER than 1 old HDD 2 times!

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-656932 LethAL Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:52:38 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-656932 Wow. I had considering getting a Core II, but the lack of a cache killed it for me. It looks like I'll have to save up for one of these. Wow. I had considering getting a Core II, but the lack of a cache killed it for me. It looks like I’ll have to save up for one of these.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-656842 Martin Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:07:41 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-656842 Yeah I went to some online retail sites but here in Europe the 120 Gigabyte version sells for €370 Euro. That's a lot for one hard drive with that capacity. I'm still considering it, maybe getting the 60 GB edition instead considering that I'm doing perfectly well with a 32 GB SSD as my primary partition at the moment. Yeah I went to some online retail sites but here in Europe the 120 Gigabyte version sells for €370 Euro. That’s a lot for one hard drive with that capacity. I’m still considering it, maybe getting the 60 GB edition instead considering that I’m doing perfectly well with a 32 GB SSD as my primary partition at the moment.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-656809 Dotan Cohen Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:30:14 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-656809 It's been _years_ since I've drooled over hardware. Now I'm drooling. Thanks! It’s been _years_ since I’ve drooled over hardware. Now I’m drooling. Thanks!

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/27/ocz-vertex-series-120gb-ssd/#comment-656766 Cheryl Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:22:48 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10805#comment-656766 Interesting article. Of course, for me, the price is a dampener. I guess I'll have to wait until prices come down to try this out. Interesting article. Of course, for me, the price is a dampener. I guess I’ll have to wait until prices come down to try this out.

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