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Day 4 - SSD Day .. and GTX260

Some more parts arrived

Very exciting, today the SSD's arrived. I am very interested how they will work out. I was reading a lot about and discussing even more. There have been a lot of good and a lot of bad news about SSD's, at least the current models that are reasonably priced.
Here are a couple of interesting articles from AnandTech that really go into detail of what is right and what is wrong about many current SSD's on the market.
1. The SSD Anthology
2. The SSD Update

Despite these articles I decided to go with the Patriot Warp2 SSD drives.
I will run these drives in Raid0 and see if some of the shortcomings can be eliminated.
Here are some pictures of what I received:

2x Patriot WARP2 (PE64GS25SSDR)

Specs:
Form Factor	2.5"
Capacity	64GB
Interface Type	SATA II
Features	Raid support: 0, 1, 0+1 Certification: FCC/CE/RoHS
Performance:
Max Shock Resistance	1500G/0.5ms
Max Vibration Resistance	20G/10~2000Hz with 3 Axis
Sequential Access - Read	up to 175MB/s
Sequential Access - Write	up to 100MB/s
MTBF	1,500,000 hours

Pictures of the Patriot SSD's:

Very nice looking drives, I am impressed so far. I also purchased a Hot swappable drive cage for them.

I am having a good feeling about this.

I also received the Video card today.

It's a EVGA GTX260.

Specs:

EVGA 896-P3-1257-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3

Model
Brand	EVGA
Model	896-P3-1257-AR
Interface
Interface	PCI Express 2.0 x16
Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer	NVIDIA
GPU	GeForce GTX 260
Core Clock	626MHz
Stream Processors	216 processing cores
Memory
Memory Clock	2106MHz (effective)
Memory Size	896MB
Memory Interface	448-bit
Memory Type	GDDR3
3D API
DirectX	DirectX 10
OpenGL	OpenGL 2.1
Ports
HDMI	1 via Adapter
DVI	2
TV-Out	HDTV / S-Video Out
General
RAMDAC	400 MHz
Max Resolution	2560 x 1600
SLI Supported	Yes

Pictures of the EVGA GTX260:

Nice card, pretty big. It's rather the economy class card of nVidia's GTX 2xx cards. Great overall value and great performance.

This is it for Day 4

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