OCZ SSD sales increase 265%

[eastmen]

Tbh, linear transfer rate is quite insignificant overall, and "only" 150MB/s is very very competitive with mechanical harddrives in that regard... It's the by and large (almost) nonexistent access time that is the big advantage for SSDs, not fast transfer rates.

aside from that , most users are looking at 60-90 gig drives in the current generation. What exactly am i going to be transfering. I use mine as a windows install with the most used programs on it after that i'm basicly out of space.

I want to get a second larger one and go from 60 to 90 gigs and i'm hoping i find something really good

 

[aaronspink]

aside from that , most users are looking at 60-90 gig drives in the current generation. What exactly am i going to be transfering. I use mine as a windows install with the most used programs on it after that i'm basicly out of space.

I transfer to mine all the time. I have steam installed on my SSD, but installing all the games would take up more space than the total size of the SSD. So I keep the downloads on my array and transfer over when I decide to play them.

I want to get a second larger one and go from 60 to 90 gigs and i'm hoping i find something really good

Personally I'm waiting for the G3 intel drives and either the 300 or 600 GB models.

 

[Lightman]

I transfer to mine all the time. I have steam installed on my SSD, but installing all the games would take up more space than the total size of the SSD. So I keep the downloads on my array and transfer over when I decide to play them.


Personally I'm waiting for the G3 intel drives and either the 300 or 600 GB models.

That is one huge missing feature from Steam - ability to install games to multiple hard-drives! I was considering SSD for my OS and gaming partitions, but with Steam already taking almost 400GB this is expensive. Your solution is a good workaround but ideally I would like to have games with huge, random data access patterns on SSD and less demanding (better optimized for linear data access) games on matrix of mechanical HDD's. At the moment I'm using 2x1TB F1 drives for Steam folder and linear read is well above 220MB/s which is enough for most games, but some of them would use a bit of good SSD love.

 

[aaronspink]

That is one huge missing feature from Steam - ability to install games to multiple hard-drives! I was considering SSD for my OS and gaming partitions, but with Steam already taking almost 400GB this is expensive. Your solution is a good workaround but ideally I would like to have games with huge, random data access patterns on SSD and less demanding (better optimized for linear data access) games on matrix of mechanical HDD's. At the moment I'm using 2x1TB F1 drives for Steam folder and linear read is well above 220MB/s which is enough for most games, but some of them would use a bit of good SSD love.

Haven't found a game yet that isn't more enjoyable on SSD. Everything is just more stable and snappy. Intel showed some interesting results at the past IDF that showed that its not just a placebo effect either. SSDs do really help out game performance/stability.

It would be nice if steam natively supported multiple drives and was SSD aware. The time to copy from my array to the SSD is generally under 30s so its not that big of a deal, but still would be nice if it was automated.

 

[eastmen]

I transfer to mine all the time. I have steam installed on my SSD, but installing all the games would take up more space than the total size of the SSD. So I keep the downloads on my array and transfer over when I decide to play them.


Personally I'm waiting for the G3 intel drives and either the 300 or 600 GB models.

For me its cost though . The G Skill phenox were on sale for $60 bucks for 60 gigs and I wanted to grab it but they were sold out as i placed my order. I'm hoping for a similar good deal. I'd love to go 120 to even higher for an ssd but I don't feel like dropping that kind of money for something that has been changing so often in the last 2 years. Also I'm on a mobo with only sata 3.0 and don't plan to upgrade my mobo or cpu till sledge hammer so a 90 gig would be pretty good. I'm hoping black friday one of them is under $150 . Even if it is a sandforce drive it will still be an improvement for games than my regular drives.

 

[Dave Baumann]

OCZ SSDs are awesome, though. They chose their controllers well, avoiding the stuttering problem of the J-Micron controller and then moving to the Sandforce controller. They only a little more per GB than the cheapest SSDs while offering better performance than Intel.

OCZ Vertex here. Just had to hack F1 2010 to ditch the stuttering from writing the replay data to disk.

 

[Grall]

It would be nice if steam natively supported multiple drives and was SSD aware.

There's many things Steam could be a lot better at. Throwing all installed games in under Steam's own installation location is one of the most obnoxious aspects of the client, especially when disk space starts running low...

Steam's backup and restore functionality is also horribly slow IMO, unless vast improvements have been made in that area in the recent-ish future. I assume they're encrypting all their backup data, and that that is what is clogging up the performance. Enabling multicore support for that task would speed things up, but last time I checked they didn't do that.

 

[Davros]

Throwing all installed games in under Steam's own installation location is one of the most obnoxious aspects of the client, especially when disk space starts running low...

Here, Here,

 

[Sxotty]

I just bought an OCZ drive for the first time (120GB for my car PC which is filling up the 64GB drive I had before). It cost less than the previous drive and will be way faster.

I have had good luck with their ram before, but I had good luck with all ram so that doesn't say much. The car PC had a junky SSD from patriot I think, my laptop is an intel drive which has been super.

 

[Grall]

Yeah, I use Intel's 60GB Enterprise SSD in my main rig. Damn it's fast...

 

[Davros]

OCZ Vertex here. Just had to hack F1 2010 to ditch the stuttering from writing the replay data to disk.

I dont have that problem(or a ssd) is it due to the game or the ssd?

 

[eastmen]

Just a heads up , microcenter has a 64gig ssd for $100 bucks. Apparently its a rebranded adata drive and looks to be pretty good. The sale is good till Dec 5th.

I'm trying to decide between that as a game drive or getting the 90gig agility 2 for $160 that they have



http://www.microcenter.com/single_p...m_campaign=E0945+eNews+20101119+Special+Event

thats the 60 gig

 

[Grall]

Dude. Don't write "$100 bucks", PLEASE. That's pronounced as "100 dollars bucks".

It's EITHER "$100", OR "100 bucks". You don't use both at the same time, it just looks dumb. Didn't you work at a school, you said? Ever thought of taking some extra English classes...?

 

[eastmen]

Dude. Don't write "$100 bucks", PLEASE. That's pronounced as "100 dollars bucks".

It's EITHER "$100", OR "100 bucks". You don't use both at the same time, it just looks dumb. Didn't you work at a school, you said? Ever thought of taking some extra English classes...?

I like to annoy people.

 

[Grall]

Rofl!

Good answer. I approve!

 

[green.pixel]

I'm amazed they've been able to stay afloat considering they used to only sell RAM for a number of years. OCZ RAM is absolute garbage. It's been that way since the day they first had a RAM product, I think it's been 5 years of absolute garbage. Scour the enthusiast forums and websites for horror stories.

I didn't have any problems with these sticks back in the days of A64. They also had one of the fastest modules of that era.

 

[eastmen]

Rofl!

Good answer. I approve!

I'm glad I could bring cheer to your heart during the holidays.

 

[Dave Baumann]

I dont have that problem(or a ssd) is it due to the game or the ssd?

The game caches the play session for the recording / playback; it caches up to a 2GB file on the hard drive. The game was installed on the SSD however to resolve the stuttering I had to create a symbolic link cache the game recording to a standard hard-drive and the stuttering disappears.

 

[Grall]

What SSD are you using? I've not heard of any stuttering issues with any modern, post-Indilinx SSD...

 

[Dave Baumann]

As mentioned, OCZ Vertex 256GB.