- Joined
- May 4, 2006
- Location
- Akron, Ohio USA
Ok, so the back story is that I bought an OCZ Vertex and Windows 7 Professional because everything I've read for the last year is how great SSD drives were and Windows 7 supports trim. So taking the plunge on a drive that will be half price 4 months from now was a little heart wrenching when all I need is a motherboard and cpu to build another pc. (I have a 7600gt, 2gb ocz ddr2-1066, case, power supply, dvd burner, 22 samsung flat panel monitor and a 250gb wd sata2 laying here in the basement) So I wondered through MicroCenter debating about buying that stupid drive when I could get an quad core athlon and motherboard for less than this drive, I decided I needed to sack up and try it.
Purchased the drive and had windows 7 laying around here. Got home and starting moving water lines in my pc out of the way so I could plug the extra sata drive in. Found out the wonderfully intellegent employee gave me a 3.5 to 5.25 drive rack instead of 2.5 to 3.5 but whatever, 4 zipties and I'm ticked off but its installed. Unplugged power to all the other drives and fired up the beast and installed win7. It really installed fast but not so quick I was like WOW! Anyway played around with settings and moving files and directories to my wd 1tb, transfers seem faster but still nothing to be wowed.
Today installed more software and was like, really? Then I realized that by this point with vista ultimate and my raptor had already slowed down the system. After some boot tests and launch tests I'm really frick'n impressed with this thing. I know a lot of you have written about the speed and I have read almost all the posts but I thought I would let anyone who was on the fence about spending the money know, I'm buying one for each of the three laptops and two additional desktops I have in the house. Probably will buy a couple larger ones and raid them because I'm a true believer now!!!
Purchased the drive and had windows 7 laying around here. Got home and starting moving water lines in my pc out of the way so I could plug the extra sata drive in. Found out the wonderfully intellegent employee gave me a 3.5 to 5.25 drive rack instead of 2.5 to 3.5 but whatever, 4 zipties and I'm ticked off but its installed. Unplugged power to all the other drives and fired up the beast and installed win7. It really installed fast but not so quick I was like WOW! Anyway played around with settings and moving files and directories to my wd 1tb, transfers seem faster but still nothing to be wowed.
Today installed more software and was like, really? Then I realized that by this point with vista ultimate and my raptor had already slowed down the system. After some boot tests and launch tests I'm really frick'n impressed with this thing. I know a lot of you have written about the speed and I have read almost all the posts but I thought I would let anyone who was on the fence about spending the money know, I'm buying one for each of the three laptops and two additional desktops I have in the house. Probably will buy a couple larger ones and raid them because I'm a true believer now!!!