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Techymike said:

at a discounted price of $610 total

damn, you guys are nuts thats what my whole system costed!! I was thinking of the addition of a solid state, not that kind though. I'm sure this has been stated already, and I haven't searched or anything so don't shoot me.. but where the price is at these days you could put together a nice compilation of ram for just system files that just dominates these speeds.

essenbe said:

Sygnus21, Thanks for the link. I just found out that I have one. Purchased in November.

Have one what????

BTW I have the 34 nand drive (111GB formated drive) - I bought mine in December.

^^No offense taken, just my initial reaction. Yes, I realize peoples spend enormous amounts of money on their systems and I appreciate it. I also take pride in getting the most bang for buck. And yes, I DO overclock...

Techymike said:

I hope I made the right pick as I just bought the Newegg.com - OCZ RevoDrive X2 OCZSSDPX-1RVDX0240 PCI-E 240GB PCI-Express x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) at a discounted price of $610 total with $115 discount and an extra $2.99 discount for preferred account and free shipping and interest free for 6 months. It is my tax return gift to myself. When I get it and install it I will let you know how good it is and how much faster it is. I know it is a high cost and I really did not need it but this is something I wanted and had to try. The speeds looked unreal!

Techymike can you give us a quick review of that drive once you set it up? What it took to get it set up and running? Issues? Maybe you could create a seperate thread for the review? I'm sure many would be interested.

Thanks.

whs said:

sygnus21 said:

Especially if they are going to play with performance numbers. I'll also add that I'm not impressed with their forums tech support. Too much attitude.

Yeah, some of those people on the OCZ forum are very high strung. I go there only for some of the good tutorials, but the discussion threads are not worth it. Also too many "fumblers" who twist and tweak for no apparent reason - sometimes even the wrong reasons.

Yup, exactly. Lots of attitude from tech support trying to "ride herd" on a group of high strung "fumblers." So may people babbling on and on about nothing that it takes hours of reading to find valuable information. The sad part is the information is in there, it's just hard to find.

I don't know, maybe I just have a bad taste in my mouth this morning after learning it appears one of my Vertex 2's from back in December is a 25 nm drive (thanks for the link sygnus21). I didn't want a smaller-than-advertised 25 nm drive, at least until the issues of OverProvisioning, design life, reliability, etc. are sorted out. It's still sealed so maybe they'll do the swap without charge. We'll see.

Tom

whs said:

Tom, I would send the drive back. I am sure they will exchange it.

Yeah, but there's still the problem of discerning which drive is a 25 nand drive and which is a 34? You can't just ask the vendor to hook up the drive and see what it's formatted to.

There has to be a way to read the packaging to see what's what? That no one is telling.... yet.