My SSD Adventure

[pwcmed]

I just ordered two 30 gigs OCZ Solid series drives for 115 bucks with free shipping from Amazon. Hopefully fully it will run some what faster than my two 36 raptors.

UPDATE 11 Jan 09

Windows 7

OCZ - 14:48.52

Raptors - 13:45.26

Boot Times with Avast installed. Paused once the network icon went green. It takes about 19 seconds before the starting windows screen comes up.

OCZ - 39.26

Raptors -55.85

UPDATE 07 Jan 09
I got the drives in and tested them with a program that the OCZ forums use. OCZ Drives are on left and Raptors on the right.

I also used HD Tune because other then HD Tach that is the only programs that I know of that tests hard drives.

Loaded a fresh OS from the time I choose the HDD to time it requested input from me

[FZ1]

Make sure you go HERE and read the stickies...especially if you are using Win XP.

[pwcmed]

Thanks for the info. Those forums had a lot of useful information but its pretty disorganized. I have not had any issues with these drives on my Biostar Tpower i45.

[Skippman]

Is the performance increase noticable?

[pwcmed]

Just from playing a couple games and copying and pasting files it seems faster. Load times seem shorter. This could be the excitement of having new hardware. I was going to load windows copy and paste some files and time it with a stop watch.

[pwcmed]

I think I have convinced my myself to stick with the SSD drives.

I was going to load vista too and run a couple more test but I think this is enough.