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Treytor posted:Would it be terribly inefficient to hook up a Corsair Force 3 240 GB SATA 3 to a sata 2 controller? For general purpose system use, no. It's exactly what I've done. If you intent to copy large files around on a very regular basis - then you'd benefit from a new controller (and mobo as well most likely).
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Lemon King posted:Earlier this week I came across some software called Fancy Cache. It works like a http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/ Looks like a neat piece of software as it allows end users to fine tune the cache, as opposed to Windows which does it automatically or by application developers. However, it is in beta and is being developed by a small company with limited resources - and I wouldn't risk putting all my data through that one driver.
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Civil posted:Kind of a silly product with strange restrictions. Proprietary software that works with win7 only? There's a dude in the comments section for that article saying the same thing - not you is it? If you need 500gb+ of storage space, and convenience of SSD speeds, this is what it's good at. Until SSDs are cheaper than HDDs, this is a decent compromise technology.
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Civil posted:Not me, but he must be a very bright fellow. It's a compromise, and it depends on your needs. Do most users edit 5gb video files? Nope. So they will most likely benefit from the convenience of a tiered cache setup with less hassle of re-ininstalling Windows and segregating data onto a smaller drive. The specialist users, on the other hand can probably afford a dedicated 500gb SSD.
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pixaal posted:Wouldn't having 32GB of RAM do the same thing but faster? Nope, when you turn off your RAM it loses the data. This is a persistent (power-safe) cache.
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Cheap Trick posted:That has to be a fakepost. Right? It is. Or a very dumbpost. Either way, one to be ignored if you see his infraction history. Talking of SSD caching, QLogic are doing it for servers/SANs now: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/pc-components/3379631/qlogics-mt-rainier-adapter-card-pools-server-ssd-capacity-on-san/
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Alereon posted:To clarify, I don't think Seagate has anything wrong with the hardware of their internal drives, but their firmware QA is bad. I doubt we'll have a repeat of the 132-reboot issue or whatever it was (where the drive died after a certain relatively small number of boots), but they do consistently release drives with buggy firmware. If you're okay with needing to periodically check for and possibly apply firmware updates then internal Seagate drives are okay, but in my opinion there's no reason to buy a Seagate drive with that kind of requirement when you can just buy another brand. I'm digressing slightly, but Seagate ES2 Barracudas 500GBs are the recent equivellant of IBM "Deathstars". A company I worked for had been using them in servers, and they died like no tomorrow. No other brand came close. Sorry, back to SSD chat...
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DreadCthulhu posted:Any idea if the 830 will drop down in price once the 840 comes out? Is there a historical precedent? The anandtech review reckons medium term prices should drop , because the new manufacturing process is more efficient.
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axeil posted:Is there a way to just migrate over your OS and a few applications? I'm currently half-full on a 1 TB HDD and the next best upgrade for me would be to go to a SSD. However, I can't find any SSD's at reasonable (<$500) prices that would allow me to migrate everything over. Needs Acronis/spare 1tB drive. Image your existing drive to the spare, then uninstall/delete everything you dont want. Use a backup app like Acronis to image what's left to a backup file, then restore it to the SSD. Not the cheapest way, but pretty flexible.
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