SSD

[TeamGrizzly]

Just got a OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD. Thinking of trying out Windows 7 and wonders which is the best option:

1) Install Win 7 on a seperate partition on my current v.raptor HDD and WoW on the SSD (symlinked); or

2) Install both Win 7 and WoW on the SSD.

Is it advisable to run an OS off an SSD? Is 60GB sufficient for OS + WoW?

Thanks

[Sam DeathWalker]

SSD just has not been the boost the specs would indicate. I would think that 60G is sufficient for OS and WoW. If so specs would indicate that SSD would be better for both.

Looking at the archtechture from the other threads it seems taht Intel "DMI" buss of 2G/sec is the bottleneck as both SSD drvies or Raptor has to go through that. I think thats why SSD is not living up to its promise.

[Starbuck_Jones]

60GB Max Performance** http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/i/3d.gif Read: Up to 230 MB/s http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/i/3d.gif Write: Up to 135MB/s http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/i/3d.gif Sustained Write: Up to 70MB/s


Is your raptor a sata 1 drive or a sata 2? I did some quick searching and all I found were sata 1 raptor drives so you will see better performance on the SSD. If its sata2. Then it will most likely be better than the ssd as far as single disk performance is concerned. The read is hard to beat on the ssd w/o RAID.

[Sam DeathWalker]

all raptors are 1.5G/sec sata1

viloraptors are 3.0G/sec sata2

Yet the Intel DMI buss (where all the drives connect to between the processor and the drive controller chip) is 2.0G/sec ....

If you go SSD and Sata2 you still hit that 2.0G/sec DMI buss which takes away most of your prefomance increase.

[confusedtx5]

all raptors are 1.5G/sec sata1

viloraptors are 3.0G/sec sata2
The only way you get 3Gbps speeds from spin drives is when they read from the HDD cache. a hdd physically can't spin fast enough to output data at even 1.5Gbps.

Today's mechanical hard disk drives ('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive') can transfer data at up to 127 MB/s,[7] ('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#cite_note-Tom2008HardDriveGuide-6') which is within the capabilities of the older PATA/133 specification. However, high-performance flash drives ('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive') can transfer data at up to 201 MB/s.[8] ('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#cite_note-TomComparisonSSDs-7') SATA 1.5 Gbit/s does not provide sufficient throughput for these drives.from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#SATA_1.5_Gbit.2Fs ('%27http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#SATA_1.5_Gbit.2Fs')