Solid State Desktops and Laptops

[drmike]

I am still slugging along on my workstation with spinning drives.

Lately, have started to hit some limits and annoyances with such.

Been deploying SSDs in servers for 3+ years.

Planning on cobbling a 'new' workstation soon with a few SSDs.  Probably headed to Intel or Samsung like usual.  Maybe a RAID 0 for the SSDs.  Also a few 2TB+ SATA drives for real storage.  Mirror all of that to external storage, maybe.

Haven't thought much about it.  Want to get rid of IOWAIT time, deal with swapping  (when I have such enabled) better/faster and still maintain some real big storage for lingering files, downloads, etc.

 

[NodeBytes]

I don't use SSD's.

My desktop is a Proliant DL380 with a mass storage array with a bunch of disks (Sata) and a whole lotta speed.

 

[Dan]

My desktop is a Proliant DL380 with a mass storage array with a bunch of disks (Sata) and a whole lotta speed

You won't get the same speed as an SSD though honestly they are great, they load apps faster and boot time is cut in half if not more most of the time.

 

[NodeBytes]

Not too worried about boot time, application performance is what really matters to me. It benches faster than my macbook pro with a (cheap) ssd.

 

[Master Bo]

Yes, 60Gb Corsair Force 3 as primary disk, and 'usual' SATA 3 fo rstorage purposes.

 

[willie]

I have SSD's in all my laptops and they are great, night and day difference.  Latency counts for much more than raw throughput in interactive machines like that.  I remember back when my laptop had a HDD, it took maybe half a minute to launch Firefox after booting the machine.  Now it takes maybe 2 seconds.