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Cuddlesworth wrote: »Duck tape.Two kittens on each side and some zip ties.
:rolleyes:
seriously though.. maybe conzy can throw together a bunch of brackets for us
I'll pay €5 a bracket 
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The new Samsung arrives in Specialtech.
120Mb/sec Read speed
70Mb/sec Write speed
3 Year warranty
SLC
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Am I missing something here or is this the deal of the century?
http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=6277&cat=905&page=1
64GB SLC 130mb/s read 70mb/s write for €140
Looks pretty good alright! Now I'm even more tempted
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Am I missing something here or is this the deal of the century?
http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=6277&cat=905&page=1
64GB SLC 130mb/s read 70mb/s write for €140
Well, they have the 64Gb version for the exact same price as the 32Gb one, so I would say it's a typo 0 -
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I've said this so many times
It's the access time that makes the difference, not the transfer rate. You can put 5 cheap SATA drives in RAID0 and get 200+ Mb/sec transfer rate, but why does it still feel sluggish?
Try to think about it from a different approach: what made the Raptors so popular? Was it their 70Mb/sec transfer rate? Good 500Gb 7200rpm disks could achieve that too. It was the access time, going down from 10ms to 7ms.
Now, take the Raptor access time of 6.x ms and compare it with the SSD's 0.x ms, and you see what we are talking about
In an ideal world, all data would be written in the same area of any disk, and so when HDTach tells you that the Velociraptor can achieve a 110Mb/sec transfer rate, everything should load very fast.
However, not all the data that your game/application needs is on the same place; they're usually located in different areas of the disk. A mechanical disk like Raptor would need 6.5ms to get from one point to the other and read the data, effectively translating this to a random read speed of 8Mb/sec.
In an identical scenario, the SSD drive would need 0.1ms to go from one area to the other, effectively transferring data at a rate of 30Mb/sec.
That's the big difference between mechanical disks and SSDs; in sequential data, all numbers look nice and as I said before even 4 cheap SATA disks perform well. But in real life, data are not sequential and the random transfer rates are what counts. This is where 0.1ms beats the 6.5ms easily 0 -
Specialtech got the 128Gb OCZ SSDs in stock for €387
I spoke to their Sales people, and they said 32Gb and 64Gb to be soon in.0 -
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It's probably your fail of a router that's causing the stream to look like crap. It needs to be in MPG4 format from what I've heard too. Get an "N" speed router and you'll be sorted.
Sure, being wired it should be alright. But your right about the router being fail.I have to connect to it wired with 10mb / full duplex to even get a connection. And you cant set that on the ps3 or xbox 0 -
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Sure, being wired it should be alright. But your right about the router being fail.I have to connect to it wired with 10mb / full duplex to even get a connection. And you cant set that on the ps3 or xbox
PPC, doodee and myself all have N routers and not a bother.......wired to the N router that is, not wireless. (although PPC might have his wireless, ask him).0 -
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Think your SSD is fast, Check out this beast
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/texas-memory-breaks-records-budgets-with-blisteringly-fast-rams/0 -
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Think your SSD is fast, Check out this beast
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/texas-memory-breaks-records-budgets-with-blisteringly-fast-rams/
OMG, in 20 yrs maybe for the average gamer4,500MB/sec random sustained external throughput0 -
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The OCZ Support forum is flooded with people having corruption issues with the OCZ Core drives. It appears to be a firmware issue and/or compatibility with AHCI, as the same drives that fail in one way, work fine in other configurations/circumstances.
Later this week I will have my hands on a 128Gb Samsung SSD (MLC) and I will post back my findings here, in order to see if the issue is the MLC flash or the OCZ implementation.
uh oh Was excited about getting one... Along with data corruption they have abysmal write performance... I know less than awesome results are expected with an SSD but it really does terrible, with minimum write speed in the 7MB/s range and horrific random write latency (250ms or so)
Heres a great article that compares it to one of the fastest 7200rpm HDDsNote the 245ms random write seek time, while useful and, well, easy to understand, is not exactly how it works, after-all SSDs don’t have heads to seek.
If my understanding is correct, this SSD makes small writes by first finding a block or “cluster”, then reading in the entire cluster, then making changes to the buffered data from the cluster, and then writing the modified data as an entire cluster to the SSD.
So on tiny writes, the drive needs to read the entire cluster into memory, make the change, then write it to the flash, we have been referring to this wasted time as a seek, because we are familiar with it as a way to understand hard drive performance…0 -
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