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#1 Joe_Miner

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Posted 14 April 2012 - 04:40 PM

I knew it would speed things up but I still wasn't really prepared for the JUMP in performance! -- had found a good price on Crucial M4's a couple of weeks ago so.......................

Used Acronis 2012 Plus -- Acronis was something of a learning experience and I had some issues with my IcyDcok USB 3.0 docking port but ultimately got it ironed out.

I cloned the WD Blue 320GB that came with the 1810T to the M4 256GB SSD -- installation was relatively simple.

Windows experience for the Hard drive went from 5.2 for the WD Blue to a 7.5 for the Crucial M4!!

Nice. Would highly recommend this to anyone.

Now..... looks like I need to start planning for that Main Desktop upgrade.................................
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Posted 14 April 2012 - 06:42 PM

Sounds like SSD addiction....you may need professional help to curb the cravings.
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Posted 14 April 2012 - 09:24 PM

Sounds like SSD addiction....you may need professional help to curb the cravings.


My wife thougt it was cute how I described the increased performance of my 1810T over dinner this evening :)

I think it's all PCDoc's fault -- he was the one to tell me to get a Crucial M4 late last year!! I may need a 12 step program!!
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 04:13 AM

My wife thougt it was cute how I described the increased performance of my 1810T over dinner this evening :)

I think it's all PCDoc's fault -- he was the one to tell me to get a Crucial M4 late last year!! I may need a 12 step program!!


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Posted 15 April 2012 - 04:41 AM

Should see our sap db speed increase we had after putting in 2tb of enterprise ssd over 15k drives went from 300 to over 5k in iops


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Posted 15 April 2012 - 10:14 AM

Should see our sap db speed increase we had after putting in 2tb of enterprise ssd over 15k drives went from 300 to over 5k in iops


2TB of SSD? How much did that cost?

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Posted 15 April 2012 - 10:20 AM

Should see our sap db speed increase we had after putting in 2tb of enterprise ssd over 15k drives went from 300 to over 5k in iops


Now that's nice. I won't be happy until my home setup matches an enterprise setup.
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 10:26 AM

Article I wrote last week on the 256GB M4 for those interested in it.....or any SSD for that matter. Also discussed on BYOB 82
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 11:06 AM

Article I wrote last weekon the 256GB M4 for those interested in it.....or any SSD for that matter. Also discussed on BYOB 82


Excellent write-up and as always an Excellent Podcast.

Your article is so good I've printed it out to file in my binder to review with all future builds! Thanks!

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LOL -- sounds like a great Prescription to me!!
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 11:39 AM

Sounds like SSD addiction....you may need professional help to curb the cravings.


Maybe a SSD patch I tape to my arm?
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 12:56 PM

2TB of SSD? How much did that cost?

about 3k per 200GB if i remember correctly and there are 12 total (11 in raid 5 plus hotspare)
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 01:29 PM

about 3k per 200GB if i remember correctly and there are 12 total (11 in raid 5 plus hotspare)


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Posted 15 April 2012 - 07:22 PM

@no-control: I know what you mean about speed acclimation. Benchmarks on my 2 SATAII SSDs in RAID0 were unbeliveable, but it didn't feel much different from running a single SSD. I went back to a spindle drive for a day just to see if I was still impressed with the difference between it and an SSD. Conclusion: most definitely! Time from power-on until I'm looking at www.google.com in my browser is the way I measure boot up. The idea being that just getting to desktop means little if the system still can't do any work because the CPU is pegged from the I/O of loading startup apps and such. The SSD crushes the spindle drive in that respect every time.

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