Tax time blues: what part to buy next ?

[Sam DeathWalker]

Although I have been recomending the revo drive I am not so sure anymore. You need to leave a lot of the drive unallocated for the garbage collection to work and some are saying that you should leave the computer on overnight twice a week:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...write-throttle

It is still not clear to me if you can force garbage collection at any time ....

I just rewrote my entire wow folder to my drive (with 8 gig unallocated) and characters are loading in not much faster then my old 10K WD hard drives.

But my main computer with the revo has only 4G ram (I am only supposed to run one client on that computer) as compare to 8G on the other computers with the 10K WD drives.

I would do a bit more research or pick up a drive with trim.

But ya out of the box you do get the performance claimed, its just will you get it a month down the road. Even if I had to rewrite the drive onece a week or so that would be ok but ...

Keep in mind I THINK these have the older 1200 Sandforce chips and not the newer ones.

You might be in a better position then me if you leave like 30percent of the drive unallocated. I can only unallocate about 8G out of the 50G of my drive (after formating and all that). Also I ran it for months without any unallocated space. But it did just get slower and slower. I could be doing something wrong though, I am just not sure as of today.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ok testing the drive again a few days after replacing all of wow on the drive:

Read: 300 MB/s

Latency: .13 ms



Compare to my 10K Raptor:

Read: 73 MB/s

Latency: 8.5 ms


I do remember getting 480 MB/s "out of the box" .... still 4X speed of raptor.