Solid State Hard drives

[Nysba]

Good choice, have you updated to the latest firmware yet?

 

It is an easy process that only takes a few minutes, the drive will preform badly or crash if you don't have the latest firmware.

Lies. Won't perform bad or crash. It'll perform WORSE than what it would wit the updates, but not bad.

[Erik005]

There was a bug in earlier firmware.

 

http://hothardware.com/News/Crucial-Acknowledges-Weird-5000-Hour-M4-SSD-Bug-Promises-Firmware-Fix-in-MidJanuary/

 

It has been fixed now but if you buy one with old firmware you need to update.

 

I've updated mine two times now and it it really easy it just costs a CD-ROM.

Edited September 7, 2012 by Erik005

[dragonslayer2k12]

I was looking for a place to vent about this firmware!!!!!

 

I have a crucial m4 128gb drive and I was still using the old 0009 firmware so I HAD to upgrade it to avoid the 5200 hours limit bug. My hours were approaching that limit and I didn't want to get too close to it and risk losing data or the whole drive. So I updated to that 010g firmware... BIG MISTAKE! Computer ran fine for about a day then BSOD and would not boot from that drive anymore. So I used another computer and read some forums here and there found out it was the crap firmware and the crucial forums are full of horror stories just in time for halloween lol about the same problem. There is a firmware fix posted there which basically says go back to firmware 000F which I had never used before. Read some horror stories about that one too but my drive works now after using that 000F firmware. Of course there was data corruption after getting it to work again. I had to reload win7 and drivers etc. I had just did a fresh reload the day before the crash anyway so I didn't have anything important on there but man if I had lost data I would be pissed:-(

 

Crucial basically tried to get more performance out of the drive by messing around with power management programming and turning some of it off to get better performance. But the drives don't like that and crash probably because of those changes, we won't know for sure until the next firmware update.

 

I have 12gb of ram running triple channel on X58 chipset, so I changed my page file to just 2048mb for both min and max but left it on the crucial drive which is my c:\ drive. I have a samsung ssd 256gb I use for installing all games and apps so they don't clutter up the crucial drive. I want win7 to run as fast as possible and if you fill up an ssd drive past something like 50% it will slow down. In fact the less free space there is the slower the drive will be or so I have read from many places.

[mercurikun]

well that video just convinced me to get one :P

 

 

[kalikka]

The 50% storage space left = slows down, only affects HDD.

SSD is completely different story, around 10% should be left free to get the max speeds.

 

20gb left on my 128gb SSD -> windows starts in 8-10s.

[Korodic]

I start windows in 2-5 seconds. I have 2 120gb SSD's. 1 for OS, 1 for Steam. 1TB for regular storage (hosts some none-load demanding steam games). Paid $70 for one of the SSDs on sale from amazon. Great deal all around. Skyrim loads are considerably faster.

[Korodic]

:facepalm:

[Alithinos]

An ssd is always on my wishlist but haven't got one yet. Their prices are still quite on the high side unfortunately.

And you know what ? I usually tend to spend money on upgrading other things that have more immediate effects,but I still want to have a SSD some time.

[Thor.]

Finally 512gb ssd's are coming out at a reasonable price, i am very tempted to go straight ssd one of these days, that also would mean to re-install windows for the first time sense it came out.http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/geek.gif

http://www.tigerdire...77&Sku=C19-8027

http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/dance.gif maybe by march or later i will. ssd complete upgrade yay. No more bottlenecks.

 

All will be on firewire http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/dance.gifhttp://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/dance.gifhttp://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/dance.gifhttp://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/dance.gif Windows on a ssd, i can't wait..

 

Might get this one when the time comes, looks good, and its OCZ, which i currently have.

 

http://www.tigerdire...3868&CatId=5300

Edited January 31, 2013 by Thor.

[drunkpig]

Just finished a new gaming-type pc build. For my main drive, I put in a Samsung 840 Series 250 gb SSD. the things are so unbelievably light, I literally taped my SSD to the case.

 

From cold start-up to functioning desk top in under 30 seconds. Probably closer to 20. The only reason I would buy a hdd in the future would be for cheap storage, and back ups.