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We just tossed in a 32GB Samsung SSD (MCBOE32G8APR-0XA00), can't seem to find the 16GB anywhere, for use as a swap disk; Photoshop swap/system swap. I haven't tried loading a file directly off of it yet, but using it as a swap disk helped to load a 500GB Photoshop file in half the time; hell of a lot quieter too.
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Haven't tried it yet but I've been very interested in these, as both primary hard disks and swap disk so I'd be like to hear how yours performs. -
Right now I'm fairly hesitant to use it as a system drive; call me old fashioned. I partitioned the drive last night so I could put the Photoshop swap file and Windows Pagefiles on it and keep them separate. Although nothing compared to the increase in using the SSD for the Photoshop swap, both IT and I agree that Windows is more responsive in areas. Then again, it's probably not a good idea to have the Windows pagefile on RAID 5 to begin with. I really wish I knew why the 16GB drives aren't available anywhere. I'd love to play with one of the new SATA 2 drive; but that's a bit cost prohibitive. All in all I think the drive was money well spent; increased productivity, less noise and less wear and tear on the RAID array.Comment
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Am I correct in assuming that's a 500MB photoshop file? You've got it listed as a 500GB file. I mean, we aren't doing anything super fancy here, but that sounds a bit large to me as most of my largest files are only 250MB. Just wondering.
Also, how much did you pick up the 32Gig SSD for, and where? I remember newegg had them, but I don't remember the price. Are those things under 400 bucks yet? I'm considering talking to the guys that build the PC's here and see if we can't get something like that going here.
Running phtoshop, Max, Rhino, the usual corporate crap like excel powerpoint and notes, widgets (I use some useful time tracking stuff there so don't make fun), Illustrator, and AfterEffects simultaneously all but kills my system. I'm getting a Dell 690 pretty soon I think with 8gigs of memory on XP64. That should help, but every bit helps you know.Comment
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Heh. Yeah. 500MB. The largest Photoshop file I've worked on was close to 1.25GB for a large 8'x30"x4-panel presentation system.
Newegg has them currently for about $420; out of stock at the moment though. They did offer the 16GB for about $185; but now it's a deactivated item.Comment
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CPU magazine has a good article this month on some NAND SSD's with some testing.
The compared them to a raptor and 2 raptors in raid 0
to sum it up the raptor raid spanked a single ssd in write speed,infact the SSD's write about half as fast overall, for reading a single SSD was about the same or a little faster than the raptor raid 0. Two SSD's in raid 0 are 2x faster than the HDD raid 0. The SSD's smoke the HDD's in access time, IO's per sec etc.
oh and the raptors are way cheaper per GB
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Heh. I wish I could cram another magnetic drive into my system; don't want to deal with an external drive. Right now the 1.8" SSD is sitting in my floppy bay on a full board adapter.Comment
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