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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | SSD recommendations |
I'm thinking about getting an SSD for a work computer. The computer itself runs XP Pro and hosts the practice intranet. It also gets used for teaching. Otherwise, it just sits there doing nothing the rest of the time. I need speed and reliability. Size isn't important because the HDD is only 40GB and is only at 20GB capacity (max). I recall OCZ had issues with their SSDs. I was looking at Crucial M4 drives but there are some serious negative reviews on Amazon. Any recommendations? |
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
Currently using Samsung 840 series I thought there was an issue SSD's running on Win XP though - sure I read it somewhere. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
no TRIM support? |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:36 am ] | |||||||||
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Check the specs of the work PC - no sense in coughing up for an M4 or 840 if you're limited to SATAII. If you are on SATAII, Scan are selling the 240GB OCZ Vertex Plus for £95. I've just sold a 120GB Vertex Plus - it was solid little drive, and the 240GB unit is faster. OCZ's problems were on later drive controllers iirc. Scan Clicky
Not on XP. You can schedule a garbage collection run though, with a non-destructive Wiper app and task scheduler. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
The drive is a SATA 1  The optiplex GX520 machine has only one SATA port. Will it still benefit an SSD? |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
The most dramatic improvement using SSD is access time. Yes, it will benefit greatly. SATA1 is still pretty fast. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
I have put a SATAII SSD in a SATA1 laptop. It doubled the disk performance and gave the laptop a whole new lease of life. It will certainly speed up that PC, although a new-ish HDD would cost much less, offer more capacity and also help the performance (but not as much). |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
I agree. Even if can't get close to the maximum data rate, you'll still benefit from the massively reduced random access time. |
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:03 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations | |||||||||
I disagree, (I think) as the machine is hosting an intranet site and running Windows XP. I'm sure that I also read about XP not playing nice with SSDs but wouldn't the increased disk access associated with multiple people accessing the inranet site reduce the life span of the SSD? |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
XP doesn't support the Trim command for SSD's. However you can manually run the garbage collection feature provided by the SSD manufacturer. If it gets used for teaching, presumably people will be working directly on it and would notice the improvement. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
They bring in presentations and run them off the flash drive or I sometimes download via google drive and it gets projected. 80% of the time, the computer is doing nothing. We don't all need to access it simultaneouly but it is the homepage for the clinician computers. Load up time (intranet site was created in Joomla) can vary from near instantaneous (is this cached?) to 60 secs which can be painfully slow when you need to print off a suspected cancer referral form. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
Then he could be right. The HDD might not be the bottleneck. |
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| Author: | Geiseric [ Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: SSD recommendations |
I use Samsung SSD's personally and find them to be very good |
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