Are you running an SSD? If so is it in RAID?

[~Dad]

120 G OCZ Vertex III Max IOPS. In mine. Worth it in every way.

Just bought the Samsung that was on sale a couple of weeks ago for my wife's rig.

[68Olds]

I have a pair of 64GB Sandforce 1222 drives running RAID0. It was quite a challenge getting them to run on my Rampage Formula motherboard. I had to find a custom BIOS for it to get RAID working reliably with the SSDs.

I plan on getting a ~120GB SSD for my notebook too.

[Ajax37]

I don't see why anyone with a "fast rig" would be without a SSD. I couldn't imagine going back, even my laptop has a SSD in one bay and a HDD in the other. I made the swtich in 2009 and haven't had a single thing to complain about.

[xdownsetx]

I think the speed gained from a SSD is far more apparent in a laptop than a desktop. Low power chipsets + low power hard drives. It's the weak spot of laptops.

[BigMac]

OCZ Vertex 3 240 gb. Love it.

[~Dad]

The floods in Thailand were unfortunate for all, but they could not have come at a more opportune time for the SSD market. It recruited a lot of people who would otherwise have been content with a HDD. It's like having an ice maker in your fridge, as small a thing as it is, once you have one, you don't ever want to go back.

[GuitarFreak]

I have a 120GB intel 520 SSD in my desktop and an 80GB intel x25m G1 in my laptop. Probably the best upgrade I've bought for my computer.

[Karnor00]

I got an SSD with my new PC a few months ago. But to be honest I don't notice a lot of difference from it.

I have plenty of RAM so the pagefile isn't an issue (which I moved to the HDD in any case). Most of my games are on the HDD (and they are too big to fit more than a couple on the SSD anyway). And the only other applications I use are office, web browsing and playing videos - I can't notice much difference doing this.

So all I'm left with is a machine which boots up rather quicker. It's nice, but not something I would pay a lot for.

[ZJChaser]

workstation has a 128 M4, laptop and simrig both have 128 Samsung 830s. Wont go back to spinners for OS drives....no doubts on that at all.

[benniebeeker]

OCZ RevoDrive x2 360gig. It's basically 4 80gig drives in a 0 stripe in a single PCI-x slot.

[Maniac]

Originally Posted by benniebeeker

OCZ RevoDrive x2 360gig. It's basically 4 80gig drives in a 0 stripe in a single PCI-x slot.

PCI-x? I think you mean PCI-E?

[benniebeeker]

Originally Posted by Maniac

PCI-x? I think you mean PCI-E?

You nailed captain correcto!! You say potato, I say potato. You say tomato, I say tomato. You say Express, I say Xpress. Let's call the whole thing off.

(its not the same without the music)

[makaveli-313]

Originally Posted by benniebeeker

You nailed captain correcto!! You say potato, I say potato. You say tomato, I say tomato. You say Express, I say Xpress. Let's call the whole thing off.

(its not the same without the music)

This is just lols :P

[AruisDante]

Originally Posted by benniebeeker

You nailed captain correcto!! You say potato, I say potato. You say tomato, I say tomato. You say Express, I say Xpress. Let's call the whole thing off.

(its not the same without the music)

Except PCI-X is a totally different thing than PCI-e

[Maniac]

Originally Posted by benniebeeker

You nailed captain correcto!! You say potato, I say potato. You say tomato, I say tomato. You say Express, I say Xpress. Let's call the whole thing off.

(its not the same without the music)

Maybe, if pci-e and pci-x were the same thing, which they aren't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

I hadn't heard of any pci-x SSD's, hence my question.

[AruisDante]

Originally Posted by Maniac

Maybe, if pci-e and pci-x were the same thing, which they aren't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

I hadn't heard of any pci-x SSD's, hence my question.

Totally Ninja'd you to it

[PommieB]

The problem with PCI-x, the speed was limited to the slowest card in the slots, it only lasted a short period of time between PCI and the development of PCIe cards, had a bit to do with PCI-x and scuzzy raid set-ups, late nineties or early 2000's.

[AruisDante]

The other big problem with PCI-X was that it was a 64bit parallel bus, which made it big, expensive, and very much prone to noise. Speed wise it was about equivalent to a 4x slot of PCI-e 1.0. Except it was (significantly) bigger than a PCI-e 16x slot.

[benniebeeker]

Originally Posted by Maniac

Maybe, if pci-e and pci-x were the same thing, which they aren't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

I hadn't heard of any pci-x SSD's, hence my question.

Touche!!!!

[BIOHazard87]

Just put in my Crucial M4 yesterday that I've had probably for a year or more. Definitely worth it!