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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2012 22:24:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2012 22:35:03 GMT
Dave I would be wary about buying SSDs on ebay when you can get great deals from local suppliers with far less hassles with warranty if you have problems. I didn't look too hard, but thie attached from a local Sydney PC store gives some idea of what is available. Kind Regards Alex www.mwave.com.au/Solid-State-Drives-SSD-c-2214.asp
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 17, 2012 23:02:01 GMT
You can pick up STD's a lot cheaper in Greece at the moment
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2012 8:46:16 GMT
Mike/Alex, A couple of points - unless I'm going to Greece, (and I'm not sure even then), how can I be sure that an SSD bought from Greece is going to be any more reliable/genuine than one bought on eBay from a British seller? Serious question: at the end of October I'm going to Northern Cyprus for a week, not exactly Greece but quite close , so any ideas about local shopping whilst I'm there? Just askin? - always interested in saving money where possible . My thoughts were to put my OS (Win7 32bit) on the SSD to speed up booting up and possibly overall operation - anyone got any thoughts on that aspect? TIA, Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2012 9:16:34 GMT
Dave My point is that here at least, the local suppliers are very competitive price wise with ebay, and there will be far less hassles if it fails under warranty, including much quicker replacement. Alex
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2012 10:38:48 GMT
Alex, Just in case you thought so, it was not my intention to come across 'all clever like', it was a genuine query. I noticed your local seller was advertising the very same SSD on his site so it's a case of price alone as there's no guarantee that either supplier has more 'genuine' stock than the other. The one I linked to was, at 120GB, only £20 more than the same item's 60GB variant and as such a mate told me it was a good price. I'll look at the £/$Au exchange rate now to compare the prices . Dave.
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Post by XTRProf on Sept 20, 2012 13:08:03 GMT
Dave,
Can forget about the 60 or 120GB SSD. They are just too low capacity for any serious computing. Go for at least 250GB and above.
Btw, are you facing any hanging when bootingn up? If not leave it as it is until you can get a 250GB SSD at half the price of what it is now.
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Post by freddypipsqueek on Sept 20, 2012 17:33:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 17:56:34 GMT
Freddy, Thanks for your link- very interesting . I am a numptie when it comes to the specs of PC components but I've been looking at several different ones lately and I noticed that the Sequential Read and Write speeds seem to be about half of what I've seen on OCZ SSD ads.. What sort of difference in performance might I see (or not see) due to those differences? TIA, Dave
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Post by freddypipsqueek on Sept 20, 2012 18:15:00 GMT
Much will depends upon your motherboard and the bus etc. I have to say that most of my PCs are a few years old and modern SSDs are at the point where the figures are better than the SATA bus in them can deal with. Having looked at the following review this appears to be a factor in the Crucial's performance which uses a 3Gb bus. www.techspot.com/review/566-crucial-v4-vs-ocz-agility-4-ssd/page10.htmlI would suggest that unless your system is using the latest 6GBs bus a 3GBs unit won't be much different in th real world. Also be aware that some of the very fast drives are designed for servers and multi user access so they are over specified for a single user PC. Some of the basic differences are explained here - prowiki.isc.upenn.edu/wiki/Understanding_SSD_DrivesI love cheap SSDs in laptops. A 120Gb unit in an old IBM - Great for USB playback.
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