60GB SSDs?

uh, huh

Ill enter this! I don't have one but really want one I barely keep any thing on my hard drive!

*Note first post in a long time! Your amazing TGS, I missed the forums why ever did I leave?

Drawing is tomorrow guys!

I think I'll toss my name in the game here. None of my systems are running a SSD. One would be nice for my work/gaming rig. Primary drive seems to be getting sluggish and I couldn't tell you how old it is.

The first two picks will be 90GB drives and the last one will get a 60GB drive

Dont enter me in either.. I've already got one. ;)

I just put a 60gb into my Macbook.. holy crap what a difference!

Less than 2 seconds to shut down, and 14 secs from power button to desktop. WIN.

*Edit: I also think that it's awesome how much you give back to this site TGS! Kudos to you!*

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Originally Posted by Luke122

Dont enter me in either.. I've already got one. ;)

I just put a 60gb into my Macbook.. holy crap what a difference!

Less than 2 seconds to shut down, and 14 secs from power button to desktop. WIN.

*Edit: I also think that it's awesome how much you give back to this site TGS! Kudos to you!*

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yeah, the boot speed is so amazing, there's no way i would ever go back to a spinning drive for booting.

so what time will the drawing be?

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Originally Posted by Cale_Hagan

i am not going to join the entry, as i have a 90gb in my laptop, and a 60g in my desktop... i am saving to buy a 120g or more sata3 ssd for the replacement of my desktop 60g...

i just wanted to say how awesome TGS is... as always. TGS, you rock!

=D

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Originally Posted by mDust

Seconded on both accounts.

Also, as TGS said, nothing special needs to be done to install or use an SSD. You can tweak it if you are benchmarking but nothing is necessary. They are lightning fast out of the box.

There were some questions somewhere above this post, but my scrolling finger is a bit lazy today:
Their lifespans depend on both the number of bits and how many times each bit can be written to before failure. Unfortunately, many programs write to disk frequently and there's nothing that can be done about that except possibly redirecting those writes to a HDD instead. Newer controllers support 'wear leveling' to minimize this damage. Also, don't ever defrag an SSD...this provides no benefit while shortening the life of the drive by repeatedly writing over much of the disk (depending on used space).

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make sure you enable trim support. :whistler:

also, i said "i am saving to buy a 120g or more sata3 ssd for the replacement of my desktop 60g... " well, i got a second 60gb for raid 0, and wound up with some problems. first problem, i knew i might run into. i had two different ssd controllers for the ssd's, and they were completely different... kept getting BSOD, so i figured it was that. i just made a quick run to a friends house, who traded me a like sata 3 60gb sandforce drive for my old same size agility ssd and a 160gb hdd.... just finished reinstalling the basics, ill let you all know how it goes, haha

I'm sorry, I'm on my 8th day in a row of work and really sore/tired.

The winners of the 90GB SSD are:

OvRiDe
d_stilgar

and the winner of the 60GB is:

Blaze15301

But Chrissy is a while away yet.... what are they working you so hard for?

Congrats to the winners.

Congrats!

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But Chrissy is a while away yet.... what are they working you so hard for?

Congrats to the winners.

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What country are you in? In the US it starts before both Halloween and Thanksgiving. I'm all for capitalism but damn. Dollar signs blot out common sense 99.9% of the time.

Also, congrats to the winners! Get ready for speed.

Thanks! I'm really excited! I'll have to trim down my C: drive before mirroring it over to the SSD, but after that it will be awesome!

Gratz guys.

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Originally Posted by mDust

What country are you in? In the US it starts before both Halloween and Thanksgiving. I'm all for capitalism but damn. Dollar signs blot out common sense 99.9% of the time.

Also, congrats to the winners! Get ready for speed.

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Australia so both Halloween and Thanksgiving mean sweet f all haha

sweet thanks tgs ive always wanted a ssd. ill pm you my address

Congrats to the winners

and,

Thanks to TGS.

D.

Congrats guys! Thanks again Ken for another wonderfully generous giveaway.

grats guys! :D tgs, i will say this again. you're awesome! :santa:

Yeah, yeah I've heard that before

Wow.. that is awesome! I hope you get some time off soon to relax!

Thank you so much!

Congrats everyone :D

I'll be off on Thursday

congrats to the winners, and thanks to TGS for being awesome like always.

:stupid: - the stupid part of course :D

Got my SSD in the mail today. Pics to come. Thanks TGS!

I'm assuming benchmarks too? ;D