Build a new PC (def DIY)

[Jules Richardson]

That's not building a PC, that's playing electrical Lego ;-)

[Bob Eager]

+1

[JohnW]

If you use a Program like Sony Vegas Movie Studio 10+ or Vegas Pro for HD editing, it can use the Graphics card to assist rendering. I have a Q8200 Quad Core which I have recently fitted an Nvidia silent GT430 graphics card to. A quick test showed a 10% improvement in rendering time.It was about the fastest card I could find with a heatsink that was sort of normal size and no fan, and the silence was important.

John

[Lee]

My i7 2600k easily thrashes the Q6600 I was running before, maybe have a look at what Quick Sync may bring to the table in future, if perhaps it doesn't quite do it yet. Though Media Espresso works for me :)

[John Rumm]

The 128GB ones are around the £130+VAT mark at the moment. Reliability seems good with quite sizeable MTBF and minimum write cycles these days. The only slight downside (other tan price) is the security aspects when it comes to clean erasing them (the way they manage the flash storage means you can't rely on being able to address particular physical "sectors" on demand).

[Rick Hughes]

If you use a Program like Sony Vegas Movie Studio 10+ or Vegas Pro for HD editing, it can use the Graphics card to assist rendering. I have a Q8200 Quad Core which I have recently fitted an Nvidia silent GT430 graphics card to. A quick test showed a 10% improvement in rendering time.It was about the fastest card I could find with a heatsink that was sort of normal size and no fan, and the silence was important.

I use VMS 11 so I assume it uses Graphics card

[Rick Hughes]

seems a fair price ... is access that much faster than HDD.

[Rick Hughes]

well I built my own house ,,, it was a Timber frame .. was that an airfix build :-)

[dennis]

You can't do that on an ordinary IDE or SATA drive either.

[D.M.Chapman]

Ebuyer are flogging one for under 100 quid at the moment.

the fastest, but for the price, it's worth a punt I reckon. Ordered one to stick in the macbook :)

Darren

[Steve Walker]

Good God! I bought a 2TB for our home server a month ago and the price has doubled since then!

SteveW

[John Rumm]

Read speed is several times faster (even when compared to "performance" or enterprise class hard drives), if the machine can work out what to do with the data as they arrive.

[Lieutenant Scott]

Fair price? A pound a GB? That's horrendously more than a mechanical d= rive. I've got a terrabyte in here - that's a grand for an SSD!

[Jules Richardson]

Only if you got half the bits stuck to yourself and the kitchen table, and then once it was all semi-completed set fire to it in a recreation of scenes from numerous WWII films...

cheers

Jules

[Lieutenant Scott]

I prefer Gigabyte boards. Excellent software with them, excellent custo= mer service (I got a 2nd hand one and the seller had lost the IO shield.= Gigabyte are supplying a replacement FREE!)

[John Rumm]

Its a different scale of problem. Conventional drives will have a small number of sectors spare to facilitate remapping failing sectors etc, however the vast bulk of the drive capacity can be accessed even if a few sectors have been mapped out.

SSDs have substantial spare capacity and an algorithm that seeks to reduce write count on any given physical sector by dynamic remapping during normal operation - not just when a failure is detected as imminent.

[John Rumm]

> Not the fastest, but for the price, it's worth a punt I reckon. Ordered

Yup, its a good upgrade for an ageing laptop - many are hampered by poor drive performance.

[John Rumm]

The point being that you don't need a TB of flash to get a big performance gain. I use a 64GB drive on my system and it holds all the OS and application files. So its a cheap upgrade for a big gain in system performance. Obviously not a cheap upgrade if you plan to replace all HDD capacity however.

[Lieutenant Scott]

I don't like to complicate matters. ONE drive please.

[Jules Richardson]

I was hoping for a message starting: "I've got this big box of LS TTL..."

:-)