Has anyone here been daft enough to try DH and its mods with an SSD? I'm in the process of acquiring one since my HDD is, (once again) failing.
Any experience here?
Any experience here?
The lifespan is apparently a lot longer than I first thought too, I figured it was very short and I'd get one just for OS booting, which is my plan. Here is an exerpt:I don't recommend SSD's, it has nothing to do with DH.
SSD's is based on technology I don't trust. Every time you use the SSD, it's lifespan goes down, and the lifespan of SSD is far lower than HDD (they lose their speed advantage vs HDD's in ~2 years last time I checked).
Furthermore, if you have a good HDD, the speed of a HDD is good enough. I have a HDD from 2006 and I STILL load consistently faster than 99% of players in online games due to having an optimized system and good CPU despite the propagation of SSD's now. Speeds of HDD vs SSD is really only useful during the loading period, and most systems are fast enough.
I don't know why your HDD is failing yet again. I usually only get HDD failures if they overheat (very rarely, forgot to plug in my HDD fan). Are you properly cooling your HDD?
Link:So how long is long? To help users estimate how long an SSD will last, SSD vendors such as OCZ have come up with formula: a drive's life span equals its capacity multiplied by its write endurance rating, divided by the average daily writes. For example, the 120GB Vertex 3 SSD has a write endurance rating of 3,000 cycles. If you write 50GB on the drive daily, the total number of days the drive will last before becoming unreliable is: (120 x 3,000)/50 = 7,200 days, which is about 20 years. If you write an average of 100GB a day, the drive would last about 10 years.
The lifespan is apparently a lot longer than I first thought too, I figured it was very short and I'd get one just for OS booting, which is my plan. Here is an exerpt:
Link:
http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/storage-talk-understanding-your-solid-state-drive/
Its the same HDD I used when it failed the first time, the head reader broke and I managed to get it repaired, but the data was still corrupt so it needed a total format. Its on its way out again so I'm ordering another 1TB from Seagate this time, I'm not going to use Atachi again.
With windows you can change the CPU priority of a process.
Start the program, CAD, Start the Task Manager, right click on the DH program, set priority.
If you change it to low it will probably run slower.
You can also change the power setting on your laptop to run slower. Start, Control Panel, Power Options