regarding hybernation problem: i had same problem (S3 sleep only, regular sleep worked fine) but on Vista. Never found the solution.
/jealous @SSD. Ill have to wait a year prolly. Waiting till prices come down for at least 120GB for 100 euro

liger wrote:

Liger, there are several speeds and technologies available, if you want an ssd, even the low price one is ALOT faster than an HDD, but DS already had it problems with such, cheap ssd's may bring incompatiblity and slow write speeds (some even slower then an hdd)

This OCZ Vertex 2 really does 200Mb/s and today I really can say, HDD I/O is the thing the makes a puter crawl or lightning speed, i my case, this "small" investment does really pay, also, battery time just.. doubled , this vaio has a stock original battery, runs for two hours.

www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/0...buyers-guide/1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is a good guide to get to grips with SSD's. The Intel and Sandforce controllers seem to be the best.

Tunes wrote:

yeh i know
i wasnt talking about the cheapest intel drives with 100 read/80write

anyway what gives the biggest boost isnt that they can read 200MB but the fact that they read small files all over the SDD at the same speed, where the HDD crawls to <1MB/s. That is why even the slowest SSD beats any other HDD in daily use.

PS: yes so far speedforce is the way to go
i prefer anandtech.com for hardware reviews When everyone was wondering why SSD's started sucking after being filled up, he explained it. In general very explanations and always goes in depth

BTW, this was the article driving my choice of SSD, I looked for cheaper bigger drives, 120Gb was my water level mark, after looking for the expensive drives, found this OCZ drive to fullfill my needs, although a bit more expensive.

www.anandtech.com/show/2899/3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The article is indeed good. Also a lot of info about SSD's

LOL

I have to laugh like hell on earth for this

The SSD died this morning... cool heh, 1 month of service.

However i've been using SSD's (mostly battery backed up huge amounts of DDR memory banks on pci-e cards), looks like nand flash shit has a lot to evolve yet...

However, I've just rma'ded the thing and will get a new HDD (damn.. not againzzzzzzzzzzzzzz), when it comes around again, I will use it again, I'll try to believe is a production problem and not really a technology problem... I just hope so...

Tunes wrote:


gutted was such a win upgrade for you old machine, was impressed it did so much