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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Sorry Rolf, but not a good move in my opinion. SSD disks are still unreliable for operations that write back to them repeatedly. You'd think that the OS itself (as opposed to document storage) was relatively static and once loaded didn't change much, but it isn't. As an IT manager I've investigated this thoroughly and only a couple of weeks ago, and have come to the conclusion that our company won't be doing it. It may seem fast and that's great, but at the extreme expense of reliability. Virtual memory's constant disk paging will kill an SSD in no time. It's a technology that is being focused on and will mature quickly - but it isn't there yet. Kingston came out ahead when I was looking.
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Thanks Chris, but the SSD market is moving fast and while your concerns were valid until recently I think now the reliability is no longer an issue, especially if you purchase the best hardware. OCZ are currently the leaders in the SSD field, along with IBM.
While I of course have yet to see how long this particular drive will actually last I'm quite pleased with its specs of 275MB/s speed and 2 million hour MTBF.
By the way, installing more RAM and completely disabling the page file was another best thing I ever did. I was initially worried that I might get the occasional BSOD and run out of memory but that has never happened so far.
For reference here is OCZ's own specs for the drive:
http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...-2-5--ssd.html
Regards,
Rolf