OCZ Core 64GB MLC SSD Review.. (Testing in progress..)

[Noids99]

Bad forum etiquette, but thought I'd post a reply to my enquiry that I discovered after posting it if anyone was interested :P



As Silencer mentioned the heat sink is 3.5" on the velociraptor, but it actually produces 35% less heat than the older raptors and draws about 4.5W, so approximately twice that of a normal lappy drive. A largish 17" lappy should be able to cope with the heat reasonably well even with the heat sink off and the adaptors do match up. The one sticking point is that lappy drives run off a 5V rail generally and the raptor requires 12V. This would require a bit of MB modding in most cases, although some 17" chassis do offer this currently. I have an oldish Dell XPS at home, so I might give this a try. In combo with the SSD it should give me a great mobile boxing setup IMO

Cheers

[puppychow]

save your money and dont buy the raptor. 90% of the drive operations WoW does is against the Data\ folder, everything else is lazy writes (WTF, Cache folders) or accessed upon world creation (Interface, Fonts, etc). With just a SSD in your laptop and Data\ symlinked to it, you will get virtually all the performance gains. Of course your OS will be faster, but does it really matter if Windows boots in 30 secs or 60 seconds?

[Wide]

Have been using my new SSD drive for a few days now and i must say its worth it. Alot find the price for this drive rather expensive, but considering the performance boost - its just insane what you get from those $200!

One problem though (not related to the SSD drive) - everything load fast in shattath/Orgrimmar when I login, but after 2-3 hours it start to lag alot and i can hear the computer doing alot of writing/reading. This must be an issue with the pagefile, which i hope extra RAM will fix. So desided "upgrade" vista to the 64bit one and get an extra 4GB ram (8GB total). Hope this will fix the issue

[mikiurban]

64GB Version now $99 after rebate ... naturally: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227344

[Wide]

$99? No excuse to not buy one then

pfft... paying 385 in denmark for that drive (and thats from the cheapest internet store aswell)

[puppychow]

I ordered the 64GB version from newegg, should be arriving in a day or two (woot). I'll also post my findings, pre-SSD I get 20-30fps in outlands, which drops to 8-10 fps in shattrah, with 5 clients running under Octopus.

$99 for a 64GB SSD is a crazy deal, even if its the slightly disreputable OCZ v1.0 SSD

[Eloxy]

Hey! i just picked up the ssd at the post and installed all my wow dir's onto it. And i must say......silencer.....THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR LETTING ME KNOW!!!!!

this is so awesome av is smooth like a dream shatt is totaly playable and i didnt loose my slaves even when the horde ally cross in av ;D IMBAH!!!



eloxy

[noir]

Wewt. Mine just came in the mail.

Ordered the OCZ V2 60GB SDD -- now I need to figure out how to copy my boot 100GB on my Dell XPS 1730 and clone it over to make my SSD the boot drive. Does Norton Ghost do that?

I can't put it in the 2nd HD slot -- I've got a 500GB there. =D

[-silencer-]

Wewt. Mine just came in the mail.

Ordered the OCZ V2 60GB SDD -- now I need to figure out how to copy my boot 100GB on my Dell XPS 1730 and clone it over to make my SSD the boot drive. Does Norton Ghost do that?

I can't put it in the 2nd HD slot -- I've got a 500GB there. =D

I wouldn't use it as a boot drive. I've already mentioned why in the main post.. the writes will likely be worse, and I suspect alternating read/writes is what causes some people to complain about hangups with the drives. I've specified exactly how I feel the drive should be used for gaming, and it appears that others are discovering this as well. My point is.. don't be surprised if performance is worse if you have ANY writes to the drive during gameplay, which the OS will be doing.

[-silencer-]

Hey! i just picked up the ssd at the post and installed all my wow dir's onto it. And i must say......silencer.....THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR LETTING ME KNOW!!!!!

this is so awesome av is smooth like a dream shatt is totaly playable and i didnt loose my slaves even when the horde ally cross in av ;D IMBAH!!!



eloxy

You're welcome! I'm glad more and more people are eliminating this bottleneck.

As for this review, I probably will not be posting anything new. I'm still blown away by the smoothness in Shatt and AV - I wouldn't have believed it would be this good if someone else put up this review. Performance numbers are very dependent on other aspects of hardware, and I don't have a newer system that would really demonstrate how fast these drives are for our purpose. (That, and I simply don't have time.. way too busy with work the last few weeks. I've played maybe 10 hours of WoW in the last 3 weeks.)