Maxwell Render

I've been "playing" around with SSD drives for a few months now. If you read the reviews on Newegg (www.newegg.com) people report many different types of problems. I've experienced the "install the OS and after a few re-boots the drive fails". A re-install usually gets it up and running. I have one drive that I've been using pretty regularly for about 5 months. Last night, after doing a bunch of printed circuit board work, it crashed. System doesn't even "see" it. Of course I have the files backed-up but that still meant I lost an evenings worth of work (editing Gerber files, nothing that can't be re-done in a few hours). Anyway, as much as I like the things (fast, fast, fast) I'm going to switch back to a standard HD and use these things as "scratch" disks until such a time that I see reviews that they are "better" than they are now. If you're using one as a "main" drive I'd recommend doing a nightly backup (I do a weekly right now, switching to nightly ).

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny ..."
Isaac Asimov

Which brand is your ssd? Or maybe it's independent from the brand and SSDs are inherently not trustworthy? I am thinking about building a new workstation and was planning to include one of those as main drive.

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I have three OCZ Vertex and one Crucial. The one that just failed is a Vertex. These are all 64M drives. I've been very happy with the speed increases in both WinXP x32 and Win7 x64. I'm really on the fence about these things right now; everything was going along fine and then - splat- dead. At least with platter drives in the past, if the OS crashed you could usually install it as a slave and retrieve the files. I tried that with this one and as I said, the system doesn't even see it.

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny ..."
Isaac Asimov

i ran 2 32GB intel x25e in raid 0 (intel mainboard controller) for 3 years as OS drive (xp64) and PS scratch disk.

never had any problems that were drive related. no data loss, despite the raid 0 and brutal paging.

in my new machine i have been very unlucky with the purchase of two patriot wildfire, these have a BSOD issue.
replaced with an intel 320, having done some heavy jobs on the machine, i can say it is running really good.


so my tip: intel

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workstation: EVGA SR-2 / dual x5650@3.5Ghz / quadro 4000

Re: Intel. Just saw this come across the wire: http://www2.electronicproducts.com/Budg ... -html.aspx

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny ..."
Isaac Asimov

hmmm... the 330 uses sand-force controller.. tricky stuff..
and the 320 comes with 5 years warranty the new 330 with 3 only.

why that, i don't know, but i'd read some reviews...

anyway, they like it:

http://www.storagereview.com/intel_ssd_330_review

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workstation: EVGA SR-2 / dual x5650@3.5Ghz / quadro 4000