SSDs
 

Hi,

Probably one for that chap who frequents around here.. ;-)

Anybody here got a SATA SSD?

Any issues with mounting in a case with rails? My case is an Antec One P160 with the rails in drive bays.

Cheers
Lee

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No reason why not at all, in fact a case with rails is probably a lot cooler than in a laptop

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I was thinking more along the line of the mounting holes lining up. I've read a few reviews that say the don't line up correctly...

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Very dependant on the case, but nothing a small drill wouldn't fix (just remove all components first as metal fragments tend to play havoc with electronics ;)

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Sod that. I'd get No Nails on the case!!!

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:clap: well done, a solution that not only doesn't adhere greatly to metal but will also act as an insulator :D

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there are adapters avalable you slot the SSD in and then it just fits as normal

http://www.overclock.co.uk/product/A...-Bay_8608.html

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How about blu tack or some velcro strips?

Damm I thought it was the 1st today..oops!! :D

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Thanks for that Zing - I've also seen one wich allows you to mount two in the same caddy.

Perhaps I'll buy two and mirror them! :shocked:

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they may well fit in the floppy drive space also(if your case has them of course lol)

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Yeah it has - but I think it's taken up by one of those floppy drive things...

I must be the only person who still has a floppy drive installed!

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I have them here but only fish em out if I need a boot driver for older sata chipsets and XP lol oh and the odd AWFLASH but thats often done through bios now

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I've just installed a OCZ Vertex 2 50Gb SSD as my boot drive along with a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium. Now to install all my programs again. Thanks be for MozBackup which made the Firefox reinstall painless. The Win 7 performance score has gone up from 5.5 to 6.5, it's now the CPU which is the slowest item, the hard drive performance went from 5.2 to 7.4. - SSD bought from Aria http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=40038

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you did install to another drive and then clone it over didnt you and not just install to the ssd?

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i know if you buy a corsair nova series ssd you get a adpator so that you can mount it in a 3.5inch drive space.

my corsair obsidian 800d has hotswap bays on the front of the case and it mounts on to the hdd holder and then slides in, and doesn't require the adaptor but if the drive doesn't come with a adaptor then you can buy them for about £5 or so.

when i installed my ssd my win 7 score for the hdd went from 5.4 to 7.5 iirc.

best bet if you get a ssd is to install on a normal sata drive then clone it to the ssd to, maintain the drives performance rather than loosing it because of the small writes that happen when you install windows and prog's.

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That can't be right surely? I get a windows 7 performance score of 7.5 on a standard sata II drive.
Or are there other factors that decide the performance score?

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you do ? what drive is it?

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Just a Western Digital 32mb cache 1tb green drive. Take it by your reaction I have an erroneous score?

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Well I have a 32 meg 500 gig Samsung F3 which is meant to be one of the fastest sata II drives on the mkt and I score 5.9

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lol, well I have just rerun the test after my last post and got the same scores. Maybe a driver related issue? It's an AMD 880 chipset.

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I know it doesn't prove anything because If I was sad enough I could have photo-shopped it but here's a screen shot.

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http://www.sevenforums.com/performan...-your-wei.html

which end mine or yours? have a look at the first few pages.

I think the only time other than in your case I have seen or heard of anyone getting anywhere near 7 let alone 7.5 on a standard hdd is with SSD. Incidentally do you have write caching enabled?

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Yep, I have a WD velocithingy and mine is 5.9 as well :(

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http://www.overclock.net/5297164-post6.html have a look at this guys for example running a velociraptor

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the F3s are a very fast drive for standard SataIIs most of my drives are F3s

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I asked OCZ about that. They said the new Sandforce chipset doesn't suffer from the problems that needed that workaround, so I installed Win 7 straight to the SSD, it has a three year warranty so I'm not worried. So far Win 7 appears to be loading twice as fast and programs are launching noticeably quicker (Photoshop takes eight seconds).

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Here's my performance chart.

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My end naturally. The only explanation I can think of for such a high score. Have googled a bit myself and have seen some evidence of people getting as high as 6.6 without ssd drives but they are high end units and certainly not green drives like mine lol.

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what are your actual system specs?

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mines ok for my system I think

7.6
7.6
7.5
7.5
5.9

i7 920@3.8 ati 4870 and samsung f3 500 gig 32 meg cache main hdd

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz (Socket 775) (1333FSB) Processor
Asus P5E-VM HDMI iG35 Socket 775 Motherboard
Corsair XMS2 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit
Corsair XMS2 2GB (2x512GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit

MSI GeForce 9600GT 512MB Overclocked PCI-E

OCZ 50GB Vertex 2 Series SATA-II Solid State SSD 2.5" Drive
1TB Seagate Barracuda ST31000528AS 3.5" SATA II Hard Drive
500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 32MB ST3500320AS 7200RPM

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My scores are from an AMD Athlon II 630 Quad core at stock speed 2.8Ghz and an ATi 5750 and Crucial 2x2GB DDR3 1333 Ballistix memory

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The SSD I bought, OCZ 50GB Vertex 2 Series is on offer today on Aria for £131.59 inc. VAT. £20 less than I paid last week (sigh!) -
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=40038