Show Us Your WEI

Beemerke said:

For an SSD this is one slow disk. Price/performance you're better of to buy a WD raptor.
If you really want an SSD save a bit longer and get a X25-M, one of the best you can get for a decent price

I should have checked back again sooner so your horrible information doesn't sit around unchallenged. Not only is this not true it may discourage someone from this low price ssd for no good reason. Random read/write are what matters for typical windows/gaming use and no platter drive can come close to an ssd. More specifically the x25v is a fantastic os drive upgrade over any platter drive(s), (yes even your outdated velociraptor raid 0 array).

Please refrain from posting unless you've done your research or at least have some clue, thanks.

Chill man :)

BTW, his opinion didn't sway me one way or the other. It's simply about price to gig for me. I simply can't see spending $200 dollars for a 50gig drive. I don't deny the performance

Peace

Dave76 said:

WEI score of 7.6 isn't so bad. Even though WEI isn't a real benchmark, just an indication of how the system works together.

At least MS got the whole idea of "your computer is only as fast as the slowest component" idea right with the WEI... Lol.

ZaLiTH said:

At least MS got the whole idea of "your computer is only as fast as the slowest component" idea right with the WEI... Lol.

LOL - true that

mbreslin said:

Beemerke said:

For an SSD this is one slow disk. Price/performance you're better of to buy a WD raptor.
If you really want an SSD save a bit longer and get a X25-M, one of the best you can get for a decent price

I should have checked back again sooner so your horrible information doesn't sit around unchallenged. Not only is this not true it may discourage someone from this low price ssd for no good reason. Random read/write are what matters for typical windows/gaming use and no platter drive can come close to an ssd. More specifically the x25v is a fantastic os drive upgrade over any platter drive(s), (yes even your outdated velociraptor raid 0 array).

Please refrain from posting unless you've done your research or at least have some clue, thanks.

Reasons enough NOT to buy a cheap 40GB SSD.
I have an 80GB SSD, windows and 3 games installed and used 50GB, meaning if you have a couple of games and a 40GB SSD you'll have to put your games on a VERY SLOW HDD, the loading times on a normal HDD (samsung F3 for example) are so slow you completely lose the benefit/fun of having windows booting fast.
If you can't/won't spend the money on an 80GB or bigger SSD you're better off with a raptor, windows will boot slower but still fast and the games you install on it will load alot faster then if you're forced to install them on a slow HDD.

Btw, my outdated....? I have an 80GB X25-M and a 1TB samsung Spinpoint F3 for backups & files, both 1 month old, like the rest of my computer, no raptors

Please refrain from posting unless you've done your research or at least have some clue, thanks

judging by space that os, apps and games uses right here and right now, smallest SSD i will upgrade to, will be at least 80GB.

because of the price per GB, for files (pics, mp3 etc), classic HDD will still rule for a long time.

The last comment about please refrain blah blah was unneeded on my part.

I only meant to challenge statements that are untrue. "If you can't/won't spend the money on an 80GB or bigger SSD you're better off with a raptor" is one of them. As you know from having your os on your 80gig ssd it is a huge improvement even if you can't fit every single game you play on it. The entire point of my post was to point out to sygnus21 that a very good ssd might not be as expensive as you might think and hence not so far away, as I said in my initial post 100$ might still be too much for him but many probably don't think a good ssd can be had for that price so hopefully others will see this as well. If he buys it or not isn't really the issue it's more a matter of making sure you have the best possible information in order to make a decision.

The x25v is a very good ssd and is much better than any single mechanical drive you can buy, not an opinion, easily verified from a million reviews/benchmarks online. Also I actually own the drive, have tested x25m g1/g2 and currently have 10 ssds in my computer.

Corsair Breaks PC Mark® Vantage World Record Using Force Series SSDs « Corsair Blog I'm number 5 on this list (4 now and corsair is 3). I have a world class storage subsystem and am only interested in having the best information be available to anyone interested. As Dave76 stated above the more people who get into ssds and finance initial r&d, the lower the prices will get for everyone.

My apologies if I at any time sounded confrontational.