March 10, 201115 yr 30gb Kingston SSD $75.99 and a $20 MIR http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139162
March 10, 201115 yr Great price for an ssd! Older generation. A bit poky on the writes (In comparison to newer drives), but for $56, hard to go wrong. Would make an excellent drive for a media player. I'm using an Intel 40GB Value drive with similar specs, and it is fantastic. Runs cool. Completely silent, fans spin up less because platter drive not warming things up... Interface with 1200-movie library runs smooth as butter.
March 11, 201115 yr You can get it for $10 more if you need the mounting hardware and some cables: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139184
March 11, 201115 yr For anyone that has a Microcenter near by, they have the 32GB Corsair Onyx SSD for $50 (after $20 MIR). Just picked up one for my HTPC yesterday. This is my first venture into SSD realm so I'm interested to see how it helps.
March 11, 201115 yr Prepare to be blown away. SSD is the best investment for a pc. That is, unless your equipment is ancient.
March 11, 201115 yr +1! Can't believe the difference my first SSD in my PC made. Booting from a platter drive now is painful! Same feeling like when LCDs first came out. I never had a problem with CRT monitors, but once I started working on an LCD, going back to a CRT made my eyes feel like they were burning in my head Now I'm waiting for the new gen to come out so I can pass my 1st gen SSD to my pops and have an excuse to upgrade
March 13, 201115 yr How well would this work for a more 'embedded' variety of application, such as being a router/firewall? I'm taking a look at this, and running ipFire off of it.
March 14, 201115 yr Author How well would this work for a more 'embedded' variety of application, such as being a router/firewall? I'm taking a look at this, and running ipFire off of it. I have no idea, I was just going to install it in my Zbox and run XBMC off of it. Using it for something like that is above my know-how!
March 14, 201115 yr Performance would be better with an SSD, assuming drive speed is the bottleneck of the application... I don't know for sure, however, as I have no experience running anything other than my desktop OS and XBMC. For $56, it might be worth the experiment One thing that comes to mind though, is that these drives (SSD) need to be periodically 'trimmed' (Do a quick google and it will explain everything if you are unfamiliar with the term). The more write cycles to a drive, the more often you will need to perform a trim... If the application writes/deletes data a lot, be sure that it is running on an OS that supports trim... DB
March 14, 201115 yr Or better yet, use a SSD that has it's own Garbage Collection in addition to TRIM support as several of the Indilinx or SandForce based SSDs do.
March 14, 201115 yr If someone consider buying this (or another SSD drive) and perhaps even RAM you should consider buying it NOW! "Because Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips -- and 15% of its DRAM -- the earthquake could seriously affect worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to analysts such as Jim Handy of research firm Objective Analysis."
March 14, 201115 yr Or better yet, use a SSD that has it's own Garbage Collection in addition to TRIM support as several of the Indilinx or SandForce based SSDs do. Good point. You'll pay more for 2nd gen drives though... $56 is hard to beat for an intro to SSDs...
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