@pacov - As far as I know*, the tech behind SSD's hasn't changed enough to warrant any tips or tweaks that haven't already been discussed or linked to in this thread. The only ones that I can think of that are really necessary are enabling AHCI and making sure that TRIM is on. Beyond that, it's all personal preference. If you're on Win 7 then you should be pretty much good to go once those last two things are done.

*If anyone knows better then I'll happily stand corrected.

ty star - karma for you. 

I thought you might like a platter to compare to. Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB

I pulled my SSD because it had a unrecoverable bootsector that I thought was due to a bad disk. Turns out uninstalling VMLite is what did it (repeated it's performance on a platter) So I'll be re-installing in a couple hours.

Next one looks like it'll be an OCZ Vertex 3 240gig.....looks like reasonable bang per buck...

Yah - love mine.  Good stuff:  http://forums.demigodthegame.com/423166/page/3/#72

Yup, that'll be my next one as well... my first SSD was a 120gig OCZ Vertex 2 and I like the brand.

thx alex - I'm sure we won't be seeing a spam post from you soon, bro. 

Guess who wishes they waited on getting their drive? 

Ah well, good news for you folks if this is still in stock...

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/74208/tigerdirect.com-240gb-ocz-agility-3-2.5-sata-iii-mlc-internal-solid-state-drive-ssd-agt325sat3240g

heya, kind of unrelated

but has anyone tried moving their pagefile to a RAM drive? like ppl with more than 8gb since SINS can't use more than 4gb? if so what was the performance difference?

I ran sins on a 4.6ghz 2500k the other day and got 15fps late game. Considering either setting up a RAM drive or a 240gb SSD with the pagefile on it.

I think the best place for a pagefile will be the OS drive...on a SSD.   Anything else should see a performance loss....

Sorry guys, just wanted to show you something:

2 x Samsung 830 256 GB in RAID 0.

RAID?

You must be a Hot Shot....

lol

Unlike hard drives, SSD performance scales linearly for each SSD added to a RAID 0 array, up to the bandwidth limit of the interface.

That above is on a IvyBridge system with SATA 6.0 Gbs, of course.

Be aware that TRIM is not supported on SSDs connected in software RAID - I found the hard way when I deployed 2 SSDs in FreeBSD RAID 1 (mirror). 

SLC vs MLC - the difference in durability is tremendous. In a deployment with about 700 writes per second on peaks that happen every 5 minutes, 24/7 (rrdtool database with constantly updated data), 2 OCZ MLC discs (I believe it was Vertex) lost their ability to write reliably in about 3 months. A pair of Intel SLC discs in RAID 1, on the other hand, have been working flawlessly for about 3 years now under the exact same conditions. 

Last Spring I had my Corsair drive on a Sata2  (3G) connection.

I just moved it to a SATA 6G connection.  Bottom line, no measurable difference.