Quote Originally Posted by Biker View Post
I have been running Intel X25-V 40GB drives on my crunching rigs since their launch with no issues.

To maximise longevity I have implemented the following:

1: Only used 30Gb for the partitions to greatly increase spare area.

2: Made sure they are all correctly write block aligned.

3: Disabled the page file.

4: Increased Boinc write to disk to 600 from default.

I am using XP x64 so no TRIM available but the drives are fine without it for this usage profile.

I made a huge thread ages ago about the Jmicron drives and have to agree they were total garbage

I have seen reports and had returns of quite a few Ilindrix and Sandforce drives dying very quickly but have seen very few (one total if my memory is currently working ok ) of the same reports of Intel G2 drives falling over so if I was buying again I would still go for the little Intels...
So I finally decide to buy one of these drive's (3 days ago) and now I'm wondering if it was worth it? and/or made any mistakes installing it?

I've held off for a long time due to all the failures I read about, but at 1 million hours MTBF I figured the thing should last at least a few years. After all how are they testing these drives to get such high MTBF, if they are failing after a fraction of that time, they should last for my lifetime?

Saw the Kingston SNV45-S2/128GB on sale, picked her up, used Acronis True Image Home to Automatically copy the image from a 300 gig WD Raptor and am using Win7.

Yup it is definitely fast, but the Raptor is no slouch.

So did I make a mistake, as this is my main machine and a cruncher as well, usually create a backup disk image once every two weeks.

Some thoughts:
-JMicron JMF618 controller but branded as Toshiba.
- Didn't do a fresh install.
- Should I have used special setting in Acronis to transfer the disk image?
- Have not changed any windows or BOINC settings.
- 2: Made sure they are all correctly write block aligned ??

Seems to me after reading this thread that these drives are still more trouble than they are worth!
Heck I've still got 40 gig enterprise drives with 6+ 24/7 years on them and they still work fine.

As this thread has me doubtful about SSD drives for a machine that has a tonne of software installed and is my main rig, I'm thinking I should just go back to the Raptor for this machine and play with the SSD in a cruncher only rig.
Can't really "just" stick the Raptor back in as BOINC has a large que that has changed as well as a few other things.

Is there anything I need to be aware of when transferring the SSD image back to the Raptor?

TIA