SSD connector troubles

[Muad_dib77]

Right so I've gotten myself a little SSD drive, and I thought I'd ordered the right cable for it, but noooo...I seen to be short a couple of pins on the power side.

Do you know where I might find the correct cable?



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[Muad_dib77]

found it

http://www.cooldrives.com/12misaca16po.html

[gfalls]

What are you going to put the drive into?
I put one into my sony vaio, and all I can say is WOW.. It goes like a train. Best upgrade ever..

[Muad_dib77]

Its going into my tower yoke..

Doing a rebuild of my old system, upgraded to 6gb memory and 3tb storage plus the 160gb ssd that'll hold windows7 and whatever application I stick on there.

I'll pertition it so I can use the drive for recording as well - I found that for whatever reason I got some "lag" in the datastream previous so I've removed all things unessential to recording and file handling.

I also went back to my roots and invested in an Xfi (PCI) card with the Platinum upgrade for more I/O doowads.

oh and the motherboard cant handle more than an AMD 6400x2, but I found one of those for cheap on the interwebs, and it's going strong.

Just need that Darn lead to arrive in the post now.

[gfalls]

Sound like its going to be a sweet rig..!
Should've got 2 ssd's and used RAID0, now that would really shift...

[CJ]

Been thinking about investing in a SSD for a while, I need to build a couple of virtual machines in a multi-layered hypervisor environment that just happens to be stuck on a desktop (don't ask...), SATA is going to kill the performance. Only problem is the cost per gig but the performance increase on latter day drives is significant enough to make me want to invest.

CJ

[Muad_dib77]

Cj, did you look at the hybrid options?

Ssd units are also a lot cheaper across the pond, so if you're not bound to specific suppliers it service agreements have a gander.

[Dilogoat86]

We're looking at investing in SSD tech too. Might involve a system that uses SATA/Fibre Connected SCSI/SSD. It instantly shifts working data into the SSD storage and then back down to SATA when idle so you get the impression of a full SSD environment. It also has some fancy shmancy backup options that allow you to restore to any point in time historically.

[CJ]

We're looking at investing in SSD tech too. Might involve a system that uses SATA/Fibre Connected SCSI/SSD

If its server based infrastructure you're taking about, take a look at SAS and iSCSI options, the latter has come a long way in the last couple of years and is a more cost effective alternative to fibre channel. An SSD used in a busy server with a large number of sequential write cycles will wear out in a couple of year but I like the idea of farming of random reads to an SSD (kinda similar to what Readyboost does in Win7).

CJ

[Dilogoat86]

We're moving away from EVA tech. It's 5-6 year old infrastrusture reboxed with a higher number. As it stands if I set a large copy from FATA to FATA it'll eventually kill exchange which is on FC; completely seperate disk but the storage is shared with integrated software. It's really badly designed so it can't cope with simple copying.

[Muad_dib77]

WWW.pillardata.com

They have an office in drogheda. Game changing storage is what they do.