SSD - Observations

whs said:

AVG is pretty useless. Holding a piece of Salami in front of the PC has about the same effect.

True, but it is far more delicious!

pparks1 said:

I think when we say SSD's offer great bang for the buck, we mean that if you put $100 into an SSD, or $100 into a higher end CPU, or $100 into a higher end video card, or $100 into more RAM...chances are the $100 spent on the SDD will make more or a difference.

That's a good general rule. Works with where I am now. But I built my last 2 boxes purely because of graphics. NOLF1 needed AGP - new box. Upgraded the AGP twice until it was tops. Saboteur came along - new box with PCI-e graphics.
SSD wouldn't have done anything for me. So, it depends on where you are and where you're going. :)

whs said:

46 seconds is too much. Something is wrong. From where did you get the number - Event Viewer, event 100?

AVG logs the scan. I haven't run any benchmarker against the SSD. WEI says 7.8, it's aligned, and the Win parms are all right. No idea how much of the scan is I/O and how much is CPU, just that I used identical folders as stated.
I've been using the free AVG and Zone Alarm for years.
Think I've only caught one virus. Might have had an old virus DB because I keep auto-updates off. I simply restored an image - one of the main reasons I take images.
But I'll try SAS and check it's footprint.
I basically laugh at the virus threat because of my imaging method, but I won't be naked to it. Some are pretty nasty - the one that creates a hidden partition comes to mind.

whs said:

Victor, Although I am a hard core SSD fan, I have to admit that for your case, you made the right choices.

I think I'm an SSD fan too, maybe not hard-core, but certainly a fan.
And I never meant to knock them, just point out my "perceptions" given my own circumstances.
As I said, I'll always use one as my system drive from now on just for the boot and imaging speed increases.

I installed a game, Stalker Clear Sky - on my SSD. The game has a bug for me that requires lots of save game reloads. The reloads took so long that I wondered how I ever tolerated it when I played it a couple years ago on a spinner.
Not that it was slow on the SSD, just wasn't very fast - about 10 seconds.
Trying to resolve the game bug, I reloaded a system image, and reinstalled the game on a spinner.
No apparent difference with game load times on the spinner. Might be something about that particular game.
The save games are only 1.5mb. It's obviously doing a lot of memory housekeeping. So an SSD won't necessarily load save games and get you back in the action noticeably faster than a good spinner.