I wonder if they can add some kind of high speed cache to speed up write times. Kind of like the way enterprise store companies like EMC address write latency. Unless of course they are already doing this. :)

I didn't say short lifespan; I said "a limited # of, or finite, read/writes," which even if it's really high (I saw some numbers once but can't recall them), what happens when that # is reached? Does the SSD no longer respond or is performance just diminished?

The Velociraptor values are a tad low, did you use IDE? Mine with AHCI and the WD 640GB

Western Digital 6400AAKS 640GB: 5086

HDD - Windows Defender 22.26

HDD - gaming 15.27

HDD - importing pictures to Windows Photo Gallery 50.72

HDD - Windows Vista startup 20.68

HDD - video editing using Windows Movie Maker 52.04

HDD - Windows Media Center 89.89

HDD - adding music to Windows Media Player 10.72

HDD - application loading 5.56

30% faster, twice the performance on Movie Maker. Other reviews show much higher values too :/

Your Velociraptor review also shows higher values: http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Western_Digital_Velociraptor_300GB/?page=6

I really want this as a start up hard drive. I thought 64 GB was low but then i compared to my 20 gbs and this drive should do fine.

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I really want this as a start up hard drive. I thought 64 GB was low but then i compared to my 20 gbs and this drive should do fine.

 Same here. But I'd use it with a standard HD in RAID1. I don't trust the manufacturers and their claims about reliability, this is not a graphics card that can be replaced and life goes on

I too have heard or read this somewhere. Was this question answered or adressed?

"I didn't say short lifespan; I said "a limited # of, or finite, read/writes," which even if it's really high (I saw some numbers once but can't recall them), what happens when that # is reached? Does the SSD no longer respond or is performance just diminished?"
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I believe they do something similiar to a sector repair on a current-gen spindle HDD -- that is a specific area that is no longer writeable gets marked as "don't write data here" and makes another memory location writeable; not to say that there is GBs worth of spare space on an SSD but I do believe there IS MBs worth of it :)

http://www.alternativerecursion.info/?p=106

check it out

wasn't clickable,,, here it is again:

http://www.alternativerecursion.info/?p=106

In response to shane about the limited write cycles in the life of an SSD. There is very limited (very) of spare sectors, like on any drive, but the total # of write cycles is Faaaaaaaaar lower than a standard HDD. Right now its no big deal because most solid state apps are low rewrite intensity (think cameras, mp3 players's etc), but working at a very large company, I know we couldn't reasonably switch to SSD regardless of cost-> Any random drive in our array performs 10s of MILLIONs of writes per day-> we have .txt day logs from single servers that are over a gig in size, with millions of individual entries. This would annihilate the lifespan of an SSD. Maybe when a little more progress is made on this subtle gremlin it could be a viable alternative, but as it stands, not quite.

in what blocksize is the OCZ disk formatted, because i have 2 of them in raid, but with the same benchmark (ATTO) and the same values i get different readings then publiched here.

i only get a little over 100 mbs/sec read and write.

one differences is that i have the V2 version, which have a read of 170 mb/sec.

as said, the are in raid 0 stripe.

i expected readings of 300 - 340 but it wil not happen.

can someone tel me what the differences is between a test, like above and the same test at my home?

regardless, my vista startup time is droped from 1 minute 10 seconds to 40 seconds, so i'am still very pleased :-)