I said, no offense guys. It's just that I know Flipp3r does this sort of job often besides he has alternatives at hand to experiment with. Guess you guys live in the states, then you have much more choices for anything. I don't know you Joe C very well although you seem a trustworthy source of knowledge, no doubts. So believe I appreciate your comments and help. Thanks.
Now this is annoying. Why are you nosing in my thread if you don't offer any positive help? On the contrary you are inciting others to not help me. Do you have anything against me? Tell me in my face and we can get even.
I was replying to Joe C. as is indicated by the QUOTE. You have obviously taken things out of context. I am now telling you to your face, learn how quoting someone else works, and no I had nothing against you... Until now. AND another thing. I WAS going to offer you advice on picking up a SSD, but you had already dismissed that option, and rather rudely I might add.
Yeah yeah in general terms. All opinions are valuable. However, in my opinion Joe C and Flipp3r agree about SSDs while I thought quite the opposite but they have lots of experience, much more than me for sure. So their comments caught my attention.
I can't really say that it's faster on a SSD, what i can say is that i have wrecked 2 out of 3 SSD's with my obsessive compulsive offline servicing and testing
Exactly my thoughts as well. So I can conclude I have to face the fact there's no real predictable disks for endurance and heavy duty, no matter the brand or model, doh! So I have to face the fact I will need to buy a new one every time a drive crashes.
@Mr.X: If you're copying images back and forth, then true. If you're using the SSD for mounting and installing disk images, (like a huge thumb drive) then the bulk of the disk operations will be reads. And that has minimal penalty as far as an SSD goes.
Now this is quite interesting. Need to learn more about it, I mean not how to make a RAMDisk, actually I have one right one but how to manage it or them, I'm thinking to setup one more although I don't know if 12GB RAM I currently have will suffice.
I'd like to hear more about these SSD's you trashed. Were they older, small sized SSD's? I ask because anything newer uses wear leveling algorithms, and of course a 60gb SSD won't last nearly as long for writes as a 512 gb drive, obviously because there's more memory to use. The SSD I posted about did have 300TBW (terabytes written) which is a lot of writes and that's just for warranty coverage, I've heard that SSD's are capable of going into the petabyte ranges (I do not know that as a fact)
OCZ Vertex 3 and i got the vertex 460 (both 120GB) after rma. Now running a Samsung 850 Pro 256GB (150TBW) But only using it as systemdrive, not as workdrive. ps, which ssd has 300TBW?
Samsung 850 Pro 512 gb NE had it on sale a while ago I had an OCZ Vertex too, but I got rid of it when the Samsung's got popular
Ramdisk? I did have official registered Primo Ramdisk Server Edition 5.6, but it becomes problematic since 14393. Now, I am using Unified Write Filter controlled by Windows 8.1 Embedded Lockdown Manager.
Working always on Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 to service all Windows images. Including Simplix pack for 7. Softperfect RAMdisk here for other uses but never tried for servicing. I guess my Windows 8.1 can use this but no idea how to use UWF to write to RAM only.