2x Kingston E-series, 1x Intel X-25E.
The difference is similar to dialup --> cable.
Intel's self-serve support's organized better than Kingston's, but neither offers a subscription to notify of firmware updates like Dell does.
Poll: Are you using SSDs?
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#72I'm curious why PC makers don't seem to be trying to take them mainstream at all yet (as in: last I checked they're not even available as an option in HP/Dell's desktop configurators) They definitely seem like the low-hanging fruit for noticeable performance improvements at this point, what with CPU clock speed having hit a wall and more cores requiring fundamental programming model (and application domain?) changes to take advantage of (and both being good enough for existing applications anyway). Is it just that consumers have been trained to treat CPU clock speed/cores, RAM size and storage capacity as the only important metrics?
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#73Where's the option of "No, but plan to".
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#74We have one database server with SSD (we need more speed than room) and are pretty happy with them. On a more personal note I use a Seagate Momentus XT in my Macbook Pro and this is the single best investment I made in years! This thing cost a third of a "real" SSD of the same capacity and for what an SSD is shining (boot time, application launch, ...) it's on par. The 4GB SSD cache is really improving the experience…
I was hoping there would be observations here about this line.
The one thing that's given me hesitation with regard to it, is the reliability problems Seagate was running into a while back, e.g. the "click of death" (very) premature failures on some of their 1 GB drives.
If anyone has appropriate experience/observations, has their reliability trended back towards its old, high levels?
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
My MBP has had a 160 GB Intel X25-M for almost a year and couldn't be happier.
Me either. This is the single best improvement I've made in the last 4 to 5 years. My MBP is awesome with this X25-M. I have adapted myself to use this little 160gb space very confortably using some external storage at home. This is great! I sure do recommend this to anyone!
I have an 80 gb intel x-25m in my 13 inch MBP but I also took out the superdrive and installed a 500gb live in an enclosure in the optical bay.
Re: Poll: Are you using SSDs?
#76I'm still waiting for OS X to add support for TRIM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_(SSD_command)#Operating_sy...
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#77We are using MLC SSD's in production for our Cassandra clusters. It is very important to consider your workload when implementing SSD's in a production application. There are MLC SSD's and SLC SSD's. The former being reasonably priced (think MLC SSD's have a fixed write lifetime and will die or degrade after a certain number of writes. SLC SSD's have no such limits. Cassandra for example has a very predictable write…
I don't know about OCZ Vertex, but I remember that Intel bragged that its MLC drives can last for about 5 years even if you write a couple of GBs every day.
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#78I have a SSD on my Macbook Pro. Totally worth it. Definitely snappier in booting up, starting up apps, and any disk i/o-intensive operations. It's certainly noticeable. Also, you don't need to sweat the higher price per byte, because more and more of my files (and I would assume yours?) are on the cloud every day anyways, so 256GB or even 128GB is fine for me these days.
There are several comments about people putting them in MBPs, but I guess I'll ask you... since OS X doesn't support TRIM have you seen any degradation in performance? I've been on the fence for a while due to the cost and OS X being behind the times.
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#79I've got an Intel 80M in my dev machine (ubuntu 10.04), running a pile of KVM virtual machines. I've got it split, 40gig to / and 40 gig to flashcache for (a large partition on( the 1TB drive that I'm using for bulk storage. It screams. It can start 6 vms in a couple of seconds, with 250+ meg random read speeds while all 6 are starting up. I've tested with flashcache off, and It's a good 4x slower.
I'm starting to cycle these SSDs into production, got a couple coming Real Soon Now as vm containers. DBs are next, I just need to decide if I'm going to use flashcache or buy enough to go raid.
Re: Poll: Are you using SSDs?
#80We are using MLC SSD's in production for our Cassandra clusters. It is very important to consider your workload when implementing SSD's in a production application. There are MLC SSD's and SLC SSD's. The former being reasonably priced (think MLC SSD's have a fixed write lifetime and will die or degrade after a certain number of writes. SLC SSD's have no such limits. Cassandra for example has a very predictable write…
I don't know about OCZ Vertex, but I remember that Intel bragged that its MLC drives can last for about 5 years even if you write a couple of GBs every day.
We are writing quite a lot more than 10GB per SSD per day on ours, and we have run into lifecycle issues. Of course, we are running a lot of these SSD's and striping across them with OS level raid, so we are doing a lot of write IO.