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new desktop availble with ssd drive installed as boot drive?
Paul wrote:
wrote: Would anyone know of Desktop computer currently being marketed that has a ssd hard drive installed that would be used as the boot drive.? I know there are ssd drives available that can be purchased separately, and also know of laptop computers that come with ssd drives already installed, but I have searched without success for a desktop with ssd drive. Any and all info welcomed! Aaron Three of the four Alienware desktops offer such an option. It costs $1000. They offer the SSDs set up in RAID 0. 512GB total capacity. http://www.alienware.com/Landings/desktops.aspx If you talk to a local computer store, see what they have to offer. If you bought an ordinary computer, bought an SSD, bought a copy of Windows 7, I'm sure a local computer shop could take care of the details for you. And with less profit margin than Alienware. Paul I've been considering booting from a usb flash drive, for convenience, not speed. It's not as simple as one might think. You can't just plug one in. The things wear out of you don't do anything to help. If you have someone else do it, make sure they know what they're doing. Presumably, Alienware do...presumably... Here's a start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Write_Filter I'm about to start some experiments, so if anyone has more info on the subject, I'd like to hear it. |
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new desktop availble with ssd drive installed as boot drive?
mike wrote:
Paul wrote: wrote: Would anyone know of Desktop computer currently being marketed that has a ssd hard drive installed that would be used as the boot drive.? I know there are ssd drives available that can be purchased separately, and also know of laptop computers that come with ssd drives already installed, but I have searched without success for a desktop with ssd drive. Any and all info welcomed! Aaron Three of the four Alienware desktops offer such an option. It costs $1000. They offer the SSDs set up in RAID 0. 512GB total capacity. http://www.alienware.com/Landings/desktops.aspx If you talk to a local computer store, see what they have to offer. If you bought an ordinary computer, bought an SSD, bought a copy of Windows 7, I'm sure a local computer shop could take care of the details for you. And with less profit margin than Alienware. Paul I've been considering booting from a usb flash drive, for convenience, not speed. It's not as simple as one might think. You can't just plug one in. The things wear out of you don't do anything to help. If you have someone else do it, make sure they know what they're doing. Presumably, Alienware do...presumably... Here's a start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Write_Filter I'm about to start some experiments, so if anyone has more info on the subject, I'd like to hear it. To translate your premise a bit: 1) Devices work when you plug them in. I'm not aware of USB flash sticks or SATA SSDs absolutely refusing to work. They work right away. If you know next to nothing about computers, you can get them to work. 2) The user can do things to prolong the service life of the SSD drive. Of the many optimizations published on the Internet, some are downright silly and others make sense (have moderate benefit, no cost). 3) Depending on the OS used, some of the items in (2) are taken care of by the OS. Windows 7 is "SSD aware", and at least knows it should not be running the defragmenter on them. And Windows 7 seems to align the partition on the SSD (to sector 2048). You can read more about EWF here. This doesn't sound entirely bulletproof, but I didn't read the whole thread. http://www.mp3car.com/winnt-based/14...te-filter.html As a consequence of (1), a manufacturer of computers can do practically anything they want. They can ship the system with zero optimizations if they want. There is nothing preventing them from doing it. Alienware ships a RAID-0 configuration... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM "The TRIM command does not work on RAID volumes." Optimization is a semi-complex subject, at least in terms of gathering all the tricks together in a list, evaluating which ones are silly, and implementing the rest. But if you don't want to, you can always just plug it in and use it. The importance of "polishing" your purchase, can be affected a bit by the type of flash used. SLC flash chips have higher write cycle limits than MLC. And MLC chip technology is heading in the wrong direction, with last year's chips doing 5000 write cycles, and this year's chips doing 3000 write cycles. If you wish to be a "dumb" SSD user, then owning an SLC drive could help give you a longer service life. SLC technology is preferred in Enterprise class drives (with elevated pricing). HTH, Paul |
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