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DVA6276
Captain, MD-88
OLP
Joined on August 15 2008
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
B737 100 Club
Boca Raton, FL
233 legs, 768.8 hours
215 legs,
733.2 hours online
223 legs,
749.2 hours ACARS
4 legs,
7.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 02 2012 19:03 ET by David Zambrano
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What do you think about this solid state drive I'm getting? Anyone have it / Any good for loading times for windows and fsx?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227706
David ZambranoCaptain, MD-88
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DVA10723
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on May 10 2012
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club
US Capital Club
Flying Colonel
Carolina Club
Everett 1500 Club
Myrtle Beach, SC
1,547 legs, 4,986.4 hours
19 legs,
27.1 hours online
1,525 legs,
4,930.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
4.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 02 2012 19:25 ET by Josh Martin
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David, I don't know anything about that particular drive, as I purchased this SSD drive with mine, but according to the customer reviews on yours, I think it'd be fine.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233191
Josh MartinCaptain, B737-800
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DVA10723
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on May 10 2012
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club
US Capital Club
Flying Colonel
Carolina Club
Everett 1500 Club
Myrtle Beach, SC
1,547 legs, 4,986.4 hours
19 legs,
27.1 hours online
1,525 legs,
4,930.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
4.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 02 2012 19:25 ET by Josh Martin
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and btw, SSD's are friggin' GREAT!!!!! lol
Josh MartinCaptain, B737-800
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DVA10641
Assistant Chief Pilot, B757-200
OLP
Joined on March 29 2012
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Million Mile Club
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Flying Colonel
Online Fifteen Century
Everett 1500 Club
Events Quintuple Century Club
Rosemount, MN USA
1,987 legs, 4,456.2 hours
1,865 legs,
3,929.2 hours online
1,967 legs,
4,422.4 hours ACARS
638 legs,
1,290.5 hours event
18 legs dispatched, 157.2
hours
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Posted onPost created on
September 03 2012 01:06 ET by Jason Boche
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Watch the reviews. The OCZs have had a lot of failure issues in the past but it looks like this one has solid ratings. Keep your fingers crossed.
SSDs are great except capacity is expensive. Consider the whole state of AZ photo scenery is something like 50GB. That's nearly half the capacity of the drive this guy is looking at. And that's just one state.
Jason BocheAssistant Chief Pilot, B757-200
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DVA1530
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on February 17 2004
Midwestern United States
49 legs, 142.8 hours
25 legs,
87.2 hours online
22 legs,
49.7 hours ACARS
1 legs,
1.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 03 2012 13:59 ET by Shane Freese
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I have that drive in my pc at work. Haven't had any problems with it. I run the Force GT at home and have also not had any problems with it.
If you have a Fry's nearby you can get the Force GT for $80 with a rebate. You must get it at the store though.
http://www.frys.com/product/6701895;jsessionid=Jm6bSHjqfTtdbuS+SwRx1A__.node2?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
Shane FreeseCaptain, B757-200
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DVA10723
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on May 10 2012
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club
US Capital Club
Flying Colonel
Carolina Club
Everett 1500 Club
Myrtle Beach, SC
1,547 legs, 4,986.4 hours
19 legs,
27.1 hours online
1,525 legs,
4,930.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
4.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 10 2012 09:39 ET by Josh Martin
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newegg has a 240gb SSD drive on sale for $155 or so...great price!!
Josh MartinCaptain, B737-800
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DVA1650
Captain, L-1011-100
Joined on April 24 2004
Century Club
"The O-N-L-Y Way to Fly!"
Southeastern United States
103 legs, 174.7 hours
49 legs,
94.5 hours online
2 legs,
2.1 hours ACARS
2 legs,
3.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 10 2012 22:30 ET by Daniel Malneritch
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The problem with flash based technology is the limited number of write cycles that can be performed. (Not that hard drives can't die either, but I guess I trust them more than the SSDs.)
Daniel MalneritchCaptain, L-1011-100
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DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on April 26 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!"
Killeen, TX USA
154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs,
218.1 hours online
153 legs,
321.7 hours ACARS
4 legs,
8.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 17 2012 12:12 ET by Kenneth Dickerson
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The difference in using a SSD vs a 32meg Cache 7200 HD is not that great of an improvement. Plus you can eat a lot of HD realestate on a SSD.
Kenneth DickersonFirst Officer, A330-300
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DVA1530
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on February 17 2004
Midwestern United States
49 legs, 142.8 hours
25 legs,
87.2 hours online
22 legs,
49.7 hours ACARS
1 legs,
1.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 17 2012 15:02 ET by Shane Freese
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I'm not sure where you got your statistics. An SSD is tons faster than a standard hard drive even with 32meg of cache. Even when you compare the slowest aspect of a SSD, the write operation, it is still 10 times faster. The only way to get faster performance out of mechanical disk is to setup a raid array with 4 or more drives. At 4 drives they would need to be 15K SAS drives. You would also need to consider how many platters are in the drives. More platters equals slower performance.
As for the life expectancy it isn't a concern in the home application. By the time you get to that magical limit of write cycles you would have replaced the drive to get a better one, we are talking 10+ years. Where a mechanical disk only has the life expectancy of 3-5 years, with most of them failing before 3 years. SSDs are not affected by dust or movement like a mechanical disk. They also do not have moving parts that can wear out. I cannot give you statistics on manufacturer defects.
I can give you some statistics of my own. Out of the 4 SSD drives I have none have failed. I can't give you a number on how many HDDs have failed because I don't have enough fingers. I can tell you that in my SAN at work I have a mixture of SSD, SAS and SATA drives. In the 2 years since I set this SAN up I've not had a single SSD fail, I've had two 15k SAS drives and eight SATA drives fail. All of those drives get extensive usage all day everyday.
Shane FreeseCaptain, B757-200
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DVA5857
Captain, B767-300
Joined on April 23 2008
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
Quincentenary Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Northeastern United States
515 legs, 1,054.0 hours
502 legs,
1,022.2 hours online
513 legs,
1,050.8 hours ACARS
15 legs,
33.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 21 2012 21:45 ET by Chuck Angle
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Six months ago I purchased a computer from MicroCenter with a 240GB SSD. I had it formatted into two partitions C: (for Windows7 and Microsoft Office) and D: (for FSX). With my old two hard drive system (and admittedly Windows XP) time to boot 34 seconds, to get to the FSX opening screen 1 minute and 40 seconds. Now the Windows screen is up before the monitor is on and the same FSX program takes 14 seconds. I am sticking with the SSD.
Chuck AngleCaptain, B767-300
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DVA8158
Captain, B767-300
OLP
Joined on December 31 2009
Century Club
Online Century Club
50 State Club
"Eight hours bottle to throttle."
Newnan, GA USA
197 legs, 437.5 hours
161 legs,
329.8 hours online
196 legs,
435.9 hours ACARS
5 legs,
17.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 22 2012 23:40 ET by Peter Bagrationoff
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I bought a 100 GB Ocz Vertex LE three years ago and it still works great. I just ordered a 240 GB Ocz Vertex 3 from Newegg for $149 for my new system. My three year old WD Caviar 7200 Rpm died one month after the warranty expired. Nothing is bullet proof but the SSD really speeds everything up!
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