New SSDs coming out this month!

[Umbaalo]

For those who haven't heard yet, Crucial and OCZ are releasing their next gen SSDs, the C400 and Vertex 3 respectively...
They will be coming to market mid to late March. the numbers so far released are ~450mb/s reads for the C400; and up to 550mb/s reads for the Vertex 3. Not done too much checking in with the C400, as the ocz drive has me reaching for a drool bucket. There are reports of write speeds capable of up to 520mb/s and seek times as low as 0.087 ms.
Overall performance when hooked into a sata 6gb/s port is very very close to the current Revo X2. This new Sandforce has me pretty excited to see what they'll end up doing with the Ibis and Revo drives, too.

Just thought I'd share...in case anyone was thinking about upgrading to a SSD anytime in the next week or two.

OCZ Vertex 3 thread:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?85336-Vertex-3-Reviews

[Sam DeathWalker]

This is the most important spec for wow:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-510-solid-state-6gbps,2881-7.html


And Vertex3 is at the top.

but even the worst is probably still 4X times what wow needs, well under 20K/sec.

[Lyonheart]

This is the most important spec for wow:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-510-solid-state-6gbps,2881-7.html


And Vertex3 is at the top.

but even the worst is probably still 4X times what wow needs, well under 20K/sec.

So its overkill? ( I'm playing Rift btw ) Ill be building a new PC in about a month, give or take a few weeks. If the news ones are overkill, then the last gen SDDs will be a lot cheaper?

[Umbaalo]

May or may not be overkill... We will have to wait and see for actual comparisons, but yes, once these come out you can expect older SSDs to fall in price (if they already haven't started).

[Sam DeathWalker]

I don't know if in fact wow is only getting like 20K small reads a second (if you don't zone if you zone then you have to load some big files) then ya it would be overkill, but yet there is still lag ......

We need more information about the amount of data wow needs but its clear that even if 100 new people come into your view you don't need a LOT of bytes, just a lot of fast access to data all over the place in small tiny chuncks (like a single boot or single sholders X 100 players). And that is FOR EACH client, so if you 5 box then you have to X that by 5 ....

Should be a way to make an estimate, say each part of a character takes 16K bytes. Say each character has 30 slots say 50 acess per character per client ...

50 new characters come into your view and you are 5 boxing you need 50X50X5 accesses, and you need them all instantly when the new character come into your view.


As you get a drive that has more i/o per second you will get your data faster and lag will be less. The video card just can't render if it dosnt have all the data. You notice they don't render wire frames or less then everything, they wait until they can render it all.

So ya if you don't mind waiting a full second (60 frames ....) I guess most any SSD will do.