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[burningforce]

depending on what company you went for, they usually have forums you can go to and find a post about configuring SSD as a windows drive. OCZ forums I know have one of these type of posts.

also if you use windows 7, it automatically does some configuring to itself that sets up the SSD when installing windows. I believe it turns off indexing and prefetching, or at least turns down the indexing to not run all the time.

edit* - here is the ocz forum, not sure if all these "tweaks" apply to your SSD or not, but good read through though

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...h-Microsoft-OS.

[Ualaa]

I found a few similar posts on the forums at http://patriotmemory.com/forums/index.php

[Ellay]

Has anyone tried out SATA 3.0? I'm thinking that is gonna rip it too :P

[boxblizzard]

im using raid on my laptop, dam fast cant see any point upgrading to ssd anytime soon, and thats running 5

[daviddoran]

Has anyone tried out SATA 3.0? I'm thinking that is gonna rip it too :P

you won't see any improvements from SATA 3 unless you get an SSD with speeds over 300MB/S, which they are rapidly approaching. There are already a few out that boast such speeds.

[Boylston]

For the money, I would buy two 30GB drives and RAID-0 them before I'd buy a 64GB drive. Better performance for about the same cost...

[daviddoran]

For the money, I would buy two 30GB drives and RAID-0 them before I'd buy a 64GB drive. Better performance for about the same cost...

I bought 3 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 drives and they are insanely fast. Large enough to install everything, and i just store photos/videos/music on my oldschool drives. Not sure what i wanna do with my velociraptor tho, maybe move it to my backup pc thats still running an old school 74gb raptor...

[BobGnarly]

A while back, I tried an SSD and found it pretty underwhelming. Not to say that my performance sucked and still does, rather it performed pretty well before and getting an SSD didn't really improve it any.

I'm not sure why my results are so difference than yours, but I do have a theory.

I have 12G of RAM in my system, which is really overkill for 5 wow clients. However, I know that Vista/Win7 caches disk accesses to RAM using a paging scheme not unlike UNIX swap (meaning, once something is pulled in off disk, it is left in RAM until a program needs that RAM). My theory is that, once the first client loads the data off disk, there is so much RAM idling about that it just stays in RAM for all the clients. In essence, wow is in a ramdrive. Therefore, I was only observing the increase from the SSD once, upon initial load.

Anyway, it's just a theory, but I thought I'd mention it because it was a surprise to me, and I'm really happy having the extra ram for things like video editing anyway.

[daviddoran]

Could have been the ssd, they are not created equally. A lot of the cheap ones are barely faster than a raptor, and you're right, a system with a lot of ram won't see as much of an improvement as one with say 2GB RAM.

My biggest plus to using an SSD is loading/hearthing/zoning in, it all happens much quicker on the ssd than it did when i used raptors, one velociraptor for my main wow folder and the OS, and another older raptor for the 4 alts.