Solid State Drives

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Lil_Debbie

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anyone using these?
I have 3 SSD's 30 gig each in raid and have noticed a big difference in COD and other games with them..
the no moving parts is a plus..
Before switching to to solid state drives i would be one of last people spawning into the game,now i'am usually in the top 6-8 range, people with lower ping (closer to server) seem to get first imo.. windows functions have had increase in speed also..
 
Yeah a couple of our guys ran into a problem with those drives. Personally I'll wait for SSDs to become more spacious and more reliable. To pile em up in your rig ATM is just a waste of money and space, IMO.
 
Well, I think I'm the only one who had a problem with my SSD. I had a G. Skill Falcon 128GB SSD and it died after about 8 months. G. Skill was very good about offering to replace it right away, but they are out of stock of new ones, and I have been waiting since Jan 28th for a new replacement to be sent back to me. Balls2dawall is also using a couple of 30GB SSDs in a raid array with no problems.
 
Use it in RAID 0 for a better perfomance. Your hard drives will be on fire
 
i have a single intel x25 80gb. i keep pushing intel to let me order a second (dicounted).

would raid 0 add the drives together and increase performance? or just one of them.
 
RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data across multiple disks in a way that gives improved speed at any given instant. If one disk fails, however, all of the data on the array will be lost, as there is neither parity nor mirroring. In this regard, RAID 0 is somewhat of a misnomer, in that RAID 0 is non-redundant. A RAID 0 array requires a minimum of two drives. A RAID 0 configuration can be applied to a single drive provided that the RAID controller is hardware and not software (i.e. OS-based arrays) and allows for such configuration. This allows a single drive to be added to a controller already containing another RAID configuration when the user does not wish to add the additional drive to the existing array. In this case, the controller would be set up as RAID only (as opposed to SCSI only (no RAID)), which requires that each individual drive be a part of some sort of RAID array.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Im waiting for prices to drop. I would love to toss a few in my machine. im already one of the first 3 people to get into the cod server this would have me sitting there waiting for the server to load the map after i already loaded it. lol
 
Yes there is a significant improvement in read/write speeds in RAID 0. The other RAID arrays which utilize disk striping/mirroring aren't as fast but data integrity isn't compromised in the event that a drive fails and breaks the array. If a drive fails in RAID 0 you're fucked. The other cool thing about a RAID configuration is the drive space combines to show one big drive. I run two 640GB drives in RAID 0 and it shows up as one 1.2TB drive. I have a 1TB external drive for backups and data that I'm really concerned about losing.
 
im not worried about data loss. my pc (again...) is only 80gb. i use it just for win7 and all of my games. all of my actual "data" is on a gigabit 2tb NAS.

as far as performance, i am one of the first playing after any map load. its not a huge jump but maybe 3 or 4 seconds.

the biggest difference is installing software and instantly launching apps. im also using an i7 so i know HT and turbo boost play a part in the speed.
 
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