G2 SSDs!
I just found that scan.co.uk recieved stock of Intels new 80GB MLC 'G2' drives today. Reviews show performance to be staggering, in everything apart from sustained writes (notably, the drive thrashes everything at random writes), so I'm really keen to get one for my desktop, where I'll get really tangible performance gains. I'm hoping that common tasks (for me) such as code compilation and digital logic synthesis will be sped up, and the general responsiveness of the system will increase.
I'm also tempted to put one in the new machine I'm building, which is designed to run virtual machines. I think that two or three OS instances, as are run in VM environments, will be generating a massive random payload on the drives, so an SSD should run really, really fast. Hopefully.
Soo I've gone ahead and ordered two, at a total cost of about £350. It's a lot of money, but I figure (rightly or wrongly) that I can afford it right now, and I think it'll give a great speed boost to my systems. I'll probably get some 'real world' benchmarks (compiling applications, synthesizing logic, etc) on one drive, and on a two-member RAID 0 set. I'm undecided as to if I should run both disks in RAID on my desktop or put one in the desktop and one in the 'vm machine'.
Delivery is scheduled for Wednesday. I'm embarassingly excited by this. :D
I'm also tempted to put one in the new machine I'm building, which is designed to run virtual machines. I think that two or three OS instances, as are run in VM environments, will be generating a massive random payload on the drives, so an SSD should run really, really fast. Hopefully.
Soo I've gone ahead and ordered two, at a total cost of about £350. It's a lot of money, but I figure (rightly or wrongly) that I can afford it right now, and I think it'll give a great speed boost to my systems. I'll probably get some 'real world' benchmarks (compiling applications, synthesizing logic, etc) on one drive, and on a two-member RAID 0 set. I'm undecided as to if I should run both disks in RAID on my desktop or put one in the desktop and one in the 'vm machine'.
Delivery is scheduled for Wednesday. I'm embarassingly excited by this. :D