Solve : Why you want to want before you buy SSD.?

1.	Solve : Why you want to want before you buy SSD.?
Answer» This is kind of a negative recommendation. But it has a bright side. If you do not really need more SSD right now, you should wait. Here is why: Earlier this year Intel said they would bring a new product to the market the will outperform SDD at a competitive price. So they say. This is called cross point technology. Or 3D XPoint. Intel has named it as 'Optane' memory. Sounds like high octane. For many milks to the stories, just Google: Intel Optane and find the PR from Intel. If they can really delivery this next year, It can change the way we think about flash storage from now on. Here one of many quotes: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/intel-optane-brings-the-storage-octane-to-ssds-1302135 Quote Because memory is written at the cell level rather than in block arrays, data can be accessed more quickly and efficiently with Optane's 3D XPoint technology. On stage, Krzanich showed that an early prototype of an Optane SSD can access data up to seven TIMES faster than Intel's leading NAND-based solid state drive. Krzanich says that this is the world's first live demonstration of 3D XPoint in action. Shall I hold my breath? For now if you need SSD, I'd buy one. When this comes out, the cost will be up there. Additionally for anyone who wants fast performance for FREE and only needs a small storage space to access data fast, and has more than enough RAM creating an excess RAM amount they could allocate a portion of system RAM to act as a RAM Drive. RAM Drives run faster than SSDs direct from RAM to CPU vs having to be passed from Drive through the controller through the BUS to the RAM and then the CPU. ( BUT ) they do require a HDD or SSD to write the image to and load from when shut down and boot up to save from and load from RAM. Only drawbacks to RAM Drives are that the power goes out and the data is gone from consumer grade computers that lack the battery RAM that high end servers have, the image for the drive has to be loaded to RAM at boot and written back to HDD or SSD on shutdown ( slower boot and shutdowns as RAM Drive data is communicated between RAM and HDD or SSD ), the storage capacity of the RAM Drive is LIMITED to the available extra system memory, so a large RAM Drive is expensive and limited in size my maximum memory supported by the motherboard. * As well as to have a RAM Drive of a capacity greater than 4GB for the shared RAM Drive solution you need to buy a licensed copy vs able to get by with the free home version they offer. http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk ** Suggestion if using a RAM Drive is to perform a few passes of MEMTEST86 on the system first to make sure all is HEALTHY ** I created a RAM Drive on a system that I thought was healthy for a 2GB RAM Drive and built a project onto this space and had my program that I wrote able to very quickly perform read/write intensive execution, but because I had a troubled memory address the RAM Drive crashed and the data all lost in this space, so I had to RECREATE this after replacing the one troubled 4GB RAM sticks in the system with 8GB DDR3 RAM.If you always wait for the next best thing to come out, you'll never buy anything.What does want to want mean anyways ? ?Quote from: patio on November 16, 2015, 08:21:31 AM What does want to want mean anyways ? ? See here: Women Who Want to Want (Do no CLICK if you are underage.) Quote from: camerongray on November 16, 2015, 08:13:15 AM If you always wait for the next best thing to come out, you'll never buy anything. This. Buy whatever suits your needs that's on the market at the time you want to buy, there are very few exceptions to this (when something genuinely is just around the corner that would meet your needs better). As Dave says, the cost won't necessarily be comparable, plus for typical usage you wouldn't necessarily even see the difference between a decent early SSD (like an Intel X25-M) and the latest and greatest. Heck, I have one of the fastest consumer SSDs on the market and in general use there's no noticeable difference between this and my old setup with a Crucial M4.

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This is kind of a negative recommendation. But it has a bright side. If you do not really need more SSD right now, you should wait.
Here is why:
Earlier this year Intel said they would bring a new product to the market the will outperform SDD at a competitive price.
So they say.

This is called cross point technology. Or 3D XPoint. Intel has named it as 'Optane' memory. Sounds like high octane.

For many milks to the stories, just Google:
Intel Optane
and find the PR from Intel. If they can really delivery this next year, It can change the way we think about flash storage from now on.
Here one of many quotes:
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/intel-optane-brings-the-storage-octane-to-ssds-1302135
Quote

Because memory is written at the cell level rather than in block arrays, data can be accessed more quickly and efficiently with Optane's 3D XPoint technology.
On stage, Krzanich showed that an early prototype of an Optane SSD can access data up to seven TIMES faster than Intel's leading NAND-based solid state drive. Krzanich says that this is the world's first live demonstration of 3D XPoint in action.

Shall I hold my breath? For now if you need SSD, I'd buy one. When this comes out, the cost will be up there.

Additionally for anyone who wants fast performance for FREE and only needs a small storage space to access data fast, and has more than enough RAM creating an excess RAM amount they could allocate a portion of system RAM to act as a RAM Drive.

RAM Drives run faster than SSDs direct from RAM to CPU vs having to be passed from Drive through the controller through the BUS to the RAM and then the CPU. ( BUT ) they do require a HDD or SSD to write the image to and load from when shut down and boot up to save from and load from RAM.

Only drawbacks to RAM Drives are that the power goes out and the data is gone from consumer grade computers that lack the battery RAM that high end servers have, the image for the drive has to be loaded to RAM at boot and written back to HDD or SSD on shutdown ( slower boot and shutdowns as RAM Drive data is communicated between RAM and HDD or SSD ), the storage capacity of the RAM Drive is LIMITED to the available extra system memory, so a large RAM Drive is expensive and limited in size my maximum memory supported by the motherboard. * As well as to have a RAM Drive of a capacity greater than 4GB for the shared RAM Drive solution you need to buy a licensed copy vs able to get by with the free home version they offer.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

**** Suggestion if using a RAM Drive is to perform a few passes of MEMTEST86 on the system first to make sure all is HEALTHY ****

I created a RAM Drive on a system that I thought was healthy for a 2GB RAM Drive and built a project onto this space and had my program that I wrote able to very quickly perform read/write intensive execution, but because I had a troubled memory address the RAM Drive crashed and the data all lost in this space, so I had to RECREATE this after replacing the one troubled 4GB RAM sticks in the system with 8GB DDR3 RAM.If you always wait for the next best thing to come out, you'll never buy anything.What does want to want mean anyways ? ?Quote from: patio on November 16, 2015, 08:21:31 AM

What does want to want mean anyways ? ?

See here:
Women Who Want to Want
(Do no CLICK if you are underage.) Quote from: camerongray on November 16, 2015, 08:13:15 AM

If you always wait for the next best thing to come out, you'll never buy anything.

This. Buy whatever suits your needs that's on the market at the time you want to buy, there are very few exceptions to this (when something genuinely is just around the corner that would meet your needs better). As Dave says, the cost won't necessarily be comparable, plus for typical usage you wouldn't necessarily even see the difference between a decent early SSD (like an Intel X25-M) and the latest and greatest. Heck, I have one of the fastest consumer SSDs on the market and in general use there's no noticeable difference between this and my old setup with a Crucial M4.

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