Downtime Due To Upgrade

[anthony]

I had to turn the site off today for about 30 minutes due to the server hard drive being changed from SATA type to SSD, to cater overall traffic to the main forum. This isn't about speed so much, but more its opened the input / output to the hard drive about 8000% which means more traffic / more functions can be processed in the same time.

Basically, lots of people all posting replies at once, whilst reading by others, equals no bottlenecking (wait time) from the database.

 

[OldDoorGunner]

Hi Anthony,
I closed my computer repair shop in Dec 2006. I was watching the SSD getting developed at the start of it. Last I read that the laptop's SSD's were still not all that good. So did they find a way to keep the SSD's cold??? Just curious...

Thanks

J R

 

[anthony]

SSD is about the only thing you want to use nowadays... they're that good. Fans, just as they do with SATA drives, now. If you don't have a fan, then heat sink alone will do the job. They can run pretty hot without issue too. I've had SSD in my system for years, laptops as well. The only thing I use SATA drives for nowadays is mass storage, talking TB's... otherwise I use SSD.

 

[JarHed]

I'm just waiting for the prices for SSD's to drop a bit before I move all my machines to them. Hoping that's soon. Let's face it, a hard drive has a spinning disc in it, it can only last so long. Yeah a TB in an SSD is like at least 1K which is a bit out of my price range. I can build a pc for that. But soon......

 

[anthony]

You can pickup a performance, quality SSD pretty cheap actually: Link Removed

1TB on above link, $440. You don't need that though, and SSD's have certain uses, and large storage isn't one of them. You install 256Gb SSD's to your working drives which run your OS and software, thus your computing experience is super fast. You use SATA drives, cheap for large storage, to store all your large files, like video and photography.

That's how you setup a computer and storage together... SSD has limits, and storage is one limit.

 

[anthony]

I have a 256GB performance SSD in my mac, which has OSX & Windows in bootcamp, plus all software obviously. I then have a Drobo as external network storage that keeps all my media files. My home network streams to the drobo for movies... my computer doesn't store anything beyond processing / converting something, which then goes onto the drobo for storage... which has about 20TB of enterprise SATA drives using beyond RAID.

I doubt I will ever use all that storage...

SSD's are not created equal, so researching one that has good read / write speeds is essential, as the difference can be an SSD with 2000 IOPS vs. 10000 IOPS for the same price, or a few bucks more.

 

[anthony]

Example: http://www.ssdreview.com/review/com...samsung-serie-840-pro-512gb-25-inch-dxm03b0q/

You can get a slightly bigger drive, faster performance, cheaper than a comparable.

 

[JarHed]

I'm pleasantly surprised at those prices. I do a lot of photo work and save all my work to external drives. If I didn't I'd fill my current hd which is 500gb quickly. I have a friend that has an SSD and it's so fast I can't believe it. That's for the info Anthony, It's appreciated.

Jar

 

[Jimmy1]

The future is PCIE SSD's.

http://ocz.com/consumer/revodrive-350-pcie-ssd

I have already clocked 5.1 GHz on my CPU, next is overclocking my two graphics cards, then putting a custom water loop onto it followed by the above bad boy.

 

[anthony]

Yer... they're a PC's alternative to Mac's flash storage... direct integration to the motherboard. They're quite expensive though, and really... you would want to be a serious PC gamer to even come close to justifying the cost difference between SSD and PCI-e SSD. I'm quite honestly not even sure you would notice a difference on any game on the market between them both, to be perfectly honest.

I think if you did a lot of HD video editing whilst gaming, would be about the only real advantage of the cost vs performance.