Its funny how you locked the thread where you ranted like a lil cry baby because your game is crap. I am glad i got a refund on this game long ago ... funny part is you guys tried to give me a half refund and i said no dice u better give me full and you did XD even after me having it for like 2 months haha. But lets get down to the [b]REAL[/b] reason i made this post... Well basically i saw your EN
Steam DLs at my max connection speed to. Impulse did also while i had it. /shrug?
[b][i]Disclaimer on the post above b 4 someone else trys to jump down my throat..[/i][/b] The "SSD = Performance , HDD = Storage" is my opinion on how you should think about it. Not saying you cannot use a HDD for a computer because um ... then majority of PCs wouldn't be around today. Just saying to split the 2 up on what they do [b]BEST[/b] for you ... would be to say that a SSD is more for performance (because as twifightdg or w/e stated ... it would cost a FORTUNE f
[quote who="twifightDG" reply="19" id="2280160"] And "crying it's too expensive" ?? I'm sorry, I didn't know we were all in tears. Hand me a hanky will you? At the moment a 60GB OCZ will buy you 2 TB of 'normal' hard drive space. That's a big difference. Not that one is better than the other, but it all depends on what you use it for. If someone wants/needs 1TB of hard drive space they'll have to go with a normal hard drive, because getting the same GBs with SSD will cost in excess of $
*hands twifightdg a hanky* will do good sir. you requested i handed. Idc say what you want .. again .. he is the only one not trying to start arguments (hmmz.). BUT since you can't seem to read what i wrote / he wrote... please look at the post below. Since you seemed to totaly miss what i quoted and wrote .. and what he said [e digicons]-_-[/e]
[quote who="Sir-Astral" reply="13" id="2279567"]HDD's are the last bottlenecks in computers today. The rate of growth for CPU's, GPU's, RAM, and Motherboards have far outstriped the technological growth of HDD's. Now for the first time we are seeing significant advances in drive technology since HDD's were introduced. The differences experienced in the old days when hard drives replaced floppy drives is back again with SSD's replacing HDD's. Now don't get me wrong, the
I love you Sir-Astral The only person with a legit point and not just random things to start arguments :P. +1 for the post!
[quote who="kona0197" reply="16" id="2273139"] NO we don't. Those that think they do are probably overcompensating for a small body part.[/quote] Aw personal attackz and 3rd grade insults. Someone is jealous :(.
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[quote who="starkers" reply="18" id="2272516"] Ah i have been curious about the OCZ. One thread a guy said it stutters sometimes and slows and then i read others saying its fine. /shrug Apparently the issue was with the first release/early models - something to do with the controller - but that has been addressed in the later models, so i have read. [/quote] nice :D
[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="11" id="2272495"]Sure, SSD's are faster than HDD's. No question. But there is a trade-off in size vs. buck. How many of us really NEED twice the speed at quadruple the price? [/quote] I guess if you can down that road i could say anything.. Do we really "NEED" 64bit? Do we really "NEED" quad-cores? Do we really "NEED" to have like 12GB (or higher --- which i don't even
Also on just another note ... HDDs can be fast but im sorry drop some money on a really good SSD and you will notice a huge performance jump. When i switched i noticed it more than most updates to my PC.... and im speaking from experience ... not people just trying to compare everything and "think" they know how it is.
twilightdg That might be good and all but they compared the OCZ one. Compare it to my Intel one and lets see who wins :). Also i don't get the comparing it to 4 drives. I mean i guess you can say its "That much faster" but it really doesn't matter how many TIMES faster ... but it is. Do a 2vs2 and see which wins. I think we all know .. so arguing over "omg its 30x faster not 50x faster" is ... idk poin
[quote who="Remiel" reply="14" id="2271370"]I can't afford another one yet Technically theres nothing defective with the drive, a whole first wave of SSD's had the same issues, it was just a poor controller. The OCZ core, and core2 series have the problem but their later drives all have a new controller and propper cache. Id love a newer one, especially one of the intel drives. Perhaps in a couple of months when win7 comes out![/quote] I am
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[quote who="CommanderAdama" reply="14" id="2272350"]IN REGARDS TO SSD No more speculation. SSDs are worth the asking price. I have an OCZ Vertex 60GB, which is a cheaper model than the Intel X25-M which are the best running consumer SSDs out. THIS THING FLIES! It's amazing. It's the single biggest upgrade i've done for my computer, ever. This coming from someone who has been upgrading computers and building, etc. since he was 12. Me. Just buy one, it's worth the price and there's n
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[quote who="kona0197" reply="7" id="2270886"]Nice try.[/quote] Thats what i thought :). [quote who="starkers" reply="8" id="2270941"] I'm gonna have to get me one of those SSD's when they drop in some price ($400 plus here in Oz for a 120gb) and become more readily available locally... some local stores know of them but just aren't stocking any at this time, meaning the going/best price would jump when ordering in a one off situation.[/quote]</p
[quote who="Remiel" reply="12" id="2267365"] Quoting Kitkun, reply 11 I wonder how that compares to my 10,000 rpm veliociraptor.SSDs blow it away. Yup! Replaced my velociraptor with a SSD, only to later swap back agan *sadfays*. Turns out I jumped on the bandwagon too early and got one of the OCZ SSD's with the crappy controller. Whilst the performance and load times were blitzin', the stutters I got at seemingly random intervals were too irr
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[quote who="kona0197" reply="11" id="2268175"]Some how saying I told you so is just not enough...[/quote] Ooo oo tell me something! /raises hand My vista ultimate 64-bit runs PERFECT. w/ 0 errors and flys due to my SSD. Tell me something tell me something!
[quote who="kona0197" reply="25" id="2270406"]I did have Vista but we returned that machine to the store. I'm wanting to get a new Mac with Snow Leopard. The new OS will handle memory better than a Windows machine and all the apps are true 64 bit apps. At least try the free Win 7 RC to see if upgrading may be a later consideration... it runs uninterrupted 'til March 2010, but more importantly, XP support is likely to be phased out over the next 12 months or so. My machin
Oh also on another note ... yeah thats cool if you can't buy em ... i know everyone can't get a SSD but um ... this entire thread is ABOUT them ... so ... um ... yeah me telling people about them and why i think its worth it .. Is .. Kinda the point ... Or .. So i thought?
[quote who="agentx250" reply="2" id="2265300"] i wasnt trying to be a smart ass but if all you gained was a faster boot time thats NOT performance since its boot time. also you should realize that i was referring to performance with caching, the more ram you have the less the drive has to be accessed. it takes my 500gb sata II drive ~50 secs to load vista, which doesnt matter b/c its not like im trying to save the world when booting my rig. even if you do gain some performance its
[quote who="agentx250" reply="21" id="2264150"]ok lets clear some things up here. 1) yes SSDs are fast but for the price/size they arent worth it for almost all ppl 2)you wont gain much performance from using one unless your using a rig with less than 1 maybe 1.5 gb of ram. 3)since they are rather small (i think the largest is 160gb) they arent that good if you have tons (and i mean TONS) of stuff you'll be putting on it. 4)SSDs' are still "new" tec
[quote who="Tassadar" reply="16" id="2263198"]So these SSD's are fast, what happens when you put them in a raid for gaming?[/quote] They are just ... nuts. http://forums.demigodthegame.com/356452 Check that post Tassadar.
[quote who="IQofSpam" reply="13" id="2262283"]Meh, my main computer is still a 3.0 Ghz P4 w/ 1 GB of RAM and an 80 GB, 7200 RPM HDD running XP 32-bit. I would love to upgrade, haha. As for SSD's, yeah, I'm sure they're amazing. I imagine the seek times are less than half of the average HDD, and considering the HDD is often a choke point for a system's speed... *drools*[/quote] What seek time? Lol :P.
[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="10" id="2261938"]Fry's has a Patriot 128GB SSD for $250. That is quite large enough for the OS, several large apps/data files and swap file. It has slower read times (175MB/s vs. 250MB/s), but faster write times (100MB/s vs. 70MB/s) than the Intel. But still, 175MB/s will have apps loading like lightning. A few years ago that would have taken a striped array of 8 or more HD's to achieve. [/quote] Chea.
I have a SSD myself (the "Intel X25-M 80GB Sold-State Drive (SSD)" .. "like" frogboys just smaller (he might have another brand or w/e) .. i want the 160GB Intel One gah!!). Anyways if you can afford it i say get one it will boost your system speed more than anything you do (as long as your system isn't poop lol). But ... i found this crazy video on youtube of a guy taking 24 SSDs w/ 2 Quad-Cores ... and um ... yeah idk you just have to watch it.