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Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 1:56am

OCZ vertex II, its not out yet but should be out very soon, its going to be much faster then any SSD drive out now, and we are thinking pricing should be better also.

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Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 1:29pm

Do you have a website with the specs, and also isnt there problems with the read and write times on SSD's because I don't want the thing to crap out on me in a few years, just things I have heard and never looked into because never really had a chance to get one in my computer up until now.

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Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 6:09pm

no read and write problem with the vertex II as far as I know, also any drive can crap out next month forget couple of years, I have had HDDs fail on me lots.

we don't have any specs and etc since its not out yet.

The drive is insanely fast as this internal quad raid drive can write at up to 480MB/s and read around 550MB/s, depending on the size of the files

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Posted: 12 Mar 2009 at 1:56am

Ahhhhhhh ic ic, but yea man oh man half a gig a second for a read speed.......thats nuts and being able to write almost half a gig a second to a drive would be a dream come true haha =D I would invest in two amd use one smaller one for my OS and a bigger one for just backup and storage........hmmmmm well it will be awhile before I even get my computer so atleast by the time I do the new intel procs will be out, as well as the evga x58 classified, and maybe even the OCZ vertex II, and i could only hope for the new ATI vid cards just to see those benchmarks haha =P

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Posted: 12 Mar 2009 at 4:02am

atcually you won't be able to go past sata 2.0's 300MB/s limit, with sata 3.0 you will see higher speeds

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Posted: 13 Mar 2009 at 12:08am

Well that kind of defeats the purpose of those times haha, I hope they are SATA 3.0 and now 2.0 =\

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Posted: 13 Mar 2009 at 12:59am

I am looking forward to seeing a review from somebody on this forum when they get a SSD.

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 1:19pm

http://www.dvnation.com/Fusion-IO-IODrive-SSD-Solid-State-Disk-Drive-Review.html

This is a review of the 64 gb SSD Fusion that is pci express. Looks like it will run at the max speed(although i could be wrong since i'm not tech savy) but blows out the raptors by a ton. Like 300 times faster then a raptor and 5.5 times faster then other SSD. One of the concerns I had looking at them was life span compared to a harddrive. According to this review the average, lower end, life span is 51 years and higher end is 110 years Confused

. Looks like they fixed that problem Angry

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Now price wise no clue was to afraid to go look anywhere but i'll waith and see what the price is for the 320 when it comes out later this month or in april. though my wife is wanting me to order the computer now. thats a change for her I think she knows it may get more expensive then $3225.

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 5:14pm

i doubut its 300x faster than a raptor

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 5:20pm

Wow it looks like the 160GB is $7200!!!

IODrive 160GB

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 5:24pm

thats a pretty sketchy looking site mate

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 5:33pm

True, I just googled for a price and it was the first I found.

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 5:46pm

Well even if that's a fake website I wouldn't be surprised if it actually was that expensive.
Person1:Hey my PC cost me $10,000
Person2:Wtf?
Person1:Yeah the harddrive alone cost $7000.

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 8:14pm

guys first off bullseyehk's link is of "fusion io" and not "fusion io duo", duo has a 1500MB/s read and a 1400MB/s write speed.

fusion io dirves are more for business/servers and they do cost an arm and a leg.

vertex 2 however is not gonna be prices the same way at all.

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 11:01pm

told ya i wasnt tech savy :)

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 11:12pm

This link says the fusion io duo is gonna be out in april and will cost a bit under $30 for a useable gigabyte....wth does that mean...its the very last paragraph.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129644&intsrc=news_ts_head

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 11:16pm

found this on another site about potential cost of the duo...

The 1.28TB drive won’t land until the second half of 2009, but the smaller 160GB, 320GB and 640GB models will be available from April 2009. No word on pricing, but given that the 320GB original model costs $14,400 this isn’t going to be a cheap storage upgrade.

am i looking at the wrong fusion SSD's or are they really this expensive?

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 11:31pm

they are pricey, the current fusions are very pricey if the duo has double the performance if the original then the price could be around there.

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 11:41pm

found this review on new egg on a generic 128 gig SSD.

Pros: Install no problem on 64-bit xp. Bought this drive solely to increase in-game load times. The drive has definitely delivered. Load time went from 45 second start up to about 8. Note: online game.

Cons: Had to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 converter dock kit. SSD will be made in 3.5 eventually, but for now you need to get a converter.

Other Thoughts: A few game optimizations had to be made first to achieve the best results. I like the drive enough so far I might consider buying a second one for raid-0. I'd definitely recommend buying this SSD

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 11:53pm

but we are not talking about those SSDs, if it was those old SSDs then I would still recommend the veloci as I have done so for the past 11 month, however the vertex 2 looks very promising and to dismiss it without seeing some benchmarks/reviews/pricing, IMO is a mistake.

as for SSDs being 2.5 yes ofcourse but putting it a 3.5 dock takes a minute, followed by another minute to install it.

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Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 11:56pm

ya looking at the googles for ocz vertex II i'm getting the cases of I wants. Wonder if my warden, er wife, will pony up $800 for me to get one.

And DST get some sleep lol Confused

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Posted: 15 Mar 2009 at 12:45am

Didn't you know that he was a robot? Lol. What is this 'sleep' you speak of?

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Posted: 15 Mar 2009 at 1:19am

define sleep

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Posted: 15 Mar 2009 at 1:20am

he simply goes into energy conservation mode and plugs himself into the outlet to recharge

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Posted: 15 Mar 2009 at 1:21am

Maybe he is consistently charging via usb

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Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 10:47pm

so if these things are gonna cost $30 per usable gig then is 640 dollars gonna be worth having your os and games worth loading faster?

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Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 11:00pm

I notice that other people are finally coming to the realization that DST4ME is actually a Digital Storm "bot". Every once in a while, the "bot" will reboot or something and not respond for 30 minutes or more. But this is rare!

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Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 12:52am

@ O.K.

@ bullseyehk, the fusion io duo drives are not going to be worth it to me and you, but the vertex 2 should have better pricing and very useful to me and you

if the price is right that is, if the vertex 2 comes out with crazy pricing they can kiss my... well you know

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Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 1:19am

do these mb that are offered currently on DS websight have the SATA 3.0 connections or will we have to wait for another board to be brought to DS?

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Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 2:16am

SATA 3.0 is not out yet. should be in 2010 I assume with the new mobos

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Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 8:55am

ok for my stupidity then SATA 2.0 is still going to make ssd how much faster then a raptor?

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Posted: 17 Mar 2009 at 3:08pm

SATA 2.0 has 300MB/s transfer rate and the vertex 2 should max that, veloci does 1/3 of that. thats in read and write speed.

in seektime, vertex basically has no seektime so it wins on that hands down also.

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