HD-Link: http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&fs ... 26fmt%3D18

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

Haha, I've seen that today too.
Just crazy.

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Ze Ãœbermensch

insane

I have 1 SSD

its shit

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The stats below lie. I'm actually much much worse.

You prolly have the cheap onces with the slow controller? Those arn't even faster then HDD's

I have this one:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/f ... ii_2_5-ssd

120gb model and cost me £240.

Loads TF2 and L4D quicker than a 15yr can have a w@nk, and its totally silent.

However the write times just drive me mad. If something is writing to it then it slows everything down - lots of 'Not Responding'.

I would go back to a fast normal HD but it cost me £240 and therefore I'm kidding myself that its really brilliant to make myself feel better.

Its shit

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The stats below lie. I'm actually much much worse.

As soon as SSDs are cheap and really outperformance HDDs on usual day work (Windows boot, Office, GAAAAAAMING) I will completly follow this new standard

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Yeah - SSD technology is developing so quickly, it doesn't pay to buy one yet IMHO unless you got some spare money you have no idea what to spend on. =)
But yeah, they are awesome and most certainly the future - at least as a place to hold your OS and favorite apps.

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

Saw it earlier this morning, awesome. *cough*sent it on IRC*cough*

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slurper

*I* sent it through IRC.

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

Sure you did.

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slurper

it was me who sent it.

Screenshot or it didn't happen!

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

I want some of those.

why defrag a SSD ?

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"I have come to shut this thread down. If I see anybody posting in here from now on, I will kill them.
In cold blood.
Thank you for your co-operation."
[SpA]DrMcMoist

Why not?

It says not to defrag my SSD in the manual. Not sure why, apparently they are so quick it doesn't need it.

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The stats below lie. I'm actually much much worse.

Defragging puts the physical 0s and 1s in the apropriate order so the reading head of a hard disk drive does not need to move too much.
A SSD has no reading head. Aditionally SSDs have a limited quantity of how many 0s and 1s can be written on a single cell. Don't wast this rewrite processes on a function that won't speed you up anyway.

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Indeed. The gist of which is, defragging an SSD DOES NOT speed it up and can actually impair the drive in the long run.

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Dammit! My computer was set to U.S. English.
I tried to save a word document but accidentally blew it up instead.

I got the WD Velociraptor some time ago.
Was oscillating between it and some random SSD.
I'm glad I chose it (SSDs had too many unknowns, uncertainties and sometimes strange performing reports).
A 5min Windows boot time turned to tens of seconds (with all little & unneeded programs loaded [and i got plenty]).
The very first time I boot from it (btw, it has a very nice program on their site which basically clones the primary partition so you can boot right away from the new disk) when I logged in EVERYTHING loaded and after it did, only AFTER, did the Windows Start-up sound play. Needless to say it impressed me. Of course performance degraded over time but it's insignificant (e.g. the start-up sound plays later now ).
Gaming-wise I don't feel any improvment really. TF2 loading times are the same I think, but they never were long to begin with. Haven't played anything else much so it's not a verdict, however I am suspecting a bottleneck in another PC component.

But yeah, SSDs are the future.
Regarding defragmenting them: it's counter-productive. As previously stated it's intended only for hard DISKS. Defragmenting a SSD shortens it's life span because you're just wearing the device off without any purpose. They still support bad sectors though .