Important notice about the SeaGate Baracuda line.

[PicassoCT]

edit: zomg my thumb??!?!!?!?

Im gonna clone my own AF out of that thumb.. camera to close, and nothing remains privat.

[AF]

Dont you dare!

@foreboding:

Installing your OS on an SSD is a bigger performance gain in terms of real perceivable speed, than going from a pentium 4 dual core to a Corei5 Sandybridge.

The improvement is MASSIVE. On my old machine photoshop would take 1minute+ to load, now it takes less than a second. When I log in within 1 second my desktop is fully loaded and usable with no lag, and it's already managed to fully load, launch, and login msn and skype. Chrome/utorrent are already loaded before I've finished lifting my finger off the mouse button, and browsing even this site in chrome is at times faster than some native programs.

Buy an SSD, put your OS on it, install important things on it, like browsers, tools, Creative studio visual studio, any content production or development tools, then use a second, high capacity HD/s for games/videos/music/etc (symlinks?! wait wut? I've never had to use symlinks in all my years )

[KaiserJ]

what kind should i buy

[very_bad_soldier]

On my old machine photoshop would take 1minute+ to load, now it takes less than a second.

Im an SSD fan but thats impossible. The improvement is massive but you cant load a PS installation that takes >1min from regular HD in <1sec from SSD. Be sure to reboot your machine before testing to not compare load times from cache with those from actual hd.

[Forboding Angel]

If PS takes a minutes to load then your hardware is shit and you have better things to buy than an ssd (oh gee like new mobo cpu and ram).

An ssd is a luxury toy, and they are not cost effective yet (far from it) when compared to existing hdd tech. As a result, not worth the trouble.

[Neddie]

If I had considerably more money I would consider an SSD or one of the "hybrid" drives with an included SSD for my boot drive on my primary computer. At the moment, however, I do not have the luxury.

[SpliFF]

I do. I shelled out for a RevoDrive x2 for my primary windows and linux partitions. It's two 60GB SSD's in RAID0 on a PCIx4 card. Does 740MB/sec, about 120k IOPS. Very sexy! I think I paid about $250 USD.

It seems like a pricey purchase but it actually makes a lot of sense. Memory and CPU speeds are orders of magnitude higher than storage speeds so there's a huge amount of time spent waiting for data rather than processing it. A drive like this narrows that gap significantly. I especially see massive improvements in compile times.

Combined with a Phenom II 6-core I can compile Spring in about a minute. My gentoo updates fly. Only a ramdisk or high-end enterprise raid can beat it. It's also good for video work provided you move older files to other storage.

120GB doesn't sound like much space but it's plenty for the base OS and favorite apps. I install infrequently used software and movies, music etc on cheaper 2TB secondary drives.

Strangely the one place I expected to see huge increases but didn't is in Windows boot times. I suspect it spends a lot a time in wait states probing hardware and looking for netbios servers.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/08/ocz- ... n-every-c/

[AF]

I've found windows needs coaxing into faster boot times, there's no multithreading enabled by default and longwinded timeouts just encase the user wants things

[zerver]

I do. I shelled out for a RevoDrive x2 for my primary windows and linux partitions. It's two 60GB SSD's in RAID0 on a PCIx4 card. Does 740MB/sec, about 120k IOPS. Very sexy! I think I paid about $250 USD.

It seems like a pricey purchase but it actually makes a lot of sense.

It does indeed make sense, as the mechanical HDD is the most outdated part of a modern computer. SSD is an awesome boost due to the large IOPS.

I have SSDs in all my computers, sometimes combined with a low-RPM large regular drive such as the WD Green for bulk storage. The bulk drive does not get stressed much because it reads mostly large media files, so I'm expecting it to last longer as a consequence.

I have two systems, one server and one netbook, in which the SSD disk alone costs more than the rest of the computer. Still well worth the money.

[Coresair]

I honestly LURVE my ssd (OCZ Vertex 2 60GB). Makes system use so much more snappy/responsive and cuts load times of applications/games on it SIGNIFICANTLY.

I just don't see how someone could argue against having one as an OS drive, get with the times......

[Gnomre]

Bumping because seagate can eat a dick.

I got a replacement drive the day after my first post in this thread, March 29th. It's April 19th now and the new drive has already started doing the same thing as the last one (in the past half hour it's dropped twice already. I replaced the cable after the first time).

I copied (not moved!) a couple hundred gigs of video data to that drive when I got it, and I had only been using it to occasionally stream said data over the local network, which isn't very demanding of it.

Tomorrow I'm going to call them and raise hell. I'm going to try my hardest to get a fucking refund, because what good is a large data storage drive if you can't fucking trust it to hold that data for more than a couple weeks?

[smoth]

this is who you'll likely be speaking with.

[PicassoCT]

hELLLNOOO u`stoomper-subport, shegate! mynaime is johncindy, cow cani yelp U?

*Well, you know Raji, i have this harddrive, which has gone soft, after just one week. I want you to get a random selected shareholder of seagate, to do my refund, so that all hell brakes loose on the stockmarket.

Haha, u fairy funny. Ill have you shipped a Shirt of Tea, and a replacment for your hardwhare, u just read serial-killer-nummer on drive-by-side.

*No, no, i want a refund, Raji. Nothing else.

You get re-found hardware drive. New serjjes, made in [Place-Customer-Country-here], iment amerigaa, its stable, like horse-stable, you get brandnew, thats watyoudo.

*If you dont refund, ill get my lawyer, to suit the shit out of your company. And you might loose your job, Raji.

No, know your lawyerz secretary, my cousins sister is working as phone-secretary, she did not write down, you suit people often.

*One day, when our country is really broke, and we have to do that support stuff, im gonna bullshit the same way Raji.

Your welcome, Sea-u-at-the-gates-of-hell

[Cheesecan]

I imagined the voice of Apu from Simpsons saying all of that.

[Caydr]

I actually made a couple of "public service" videos on the subject of why Seagate is a pile of leper balls:

Demonstration of problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJe9R0QpmI
Fix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2PB9gZ1br4

[Cheesecan]

I actually made a couple of "public service" videos on the subject of why Seagate is a pile of leper balls:

Demonstration of problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJe9R0QpmI
Fix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2PB9gZ1br4

I used to have one of those..replaced it with a WD drive. The WD drive is completely silent and wakes up much faster when I want to use it, never had any problems with it. Seems Seagate is a bit behind these days.