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November 30th, 2011, 02:18 AM

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SSD (Solid State Disk) could improve trading speed?

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Posted By Big Mike

I have a Crucial M4 256GB SSD in my main system. ...

I have a Crucial M4 256GB SSD in my main system.

It does make Windows boot faster. But I only boot Windows once a month or every two months or so.

It does make loading applications faster. ...

Forum: Tech Support

March 29th, 2011, 02:56 PM

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SSD (Solid State Disk) could improve trading speed?

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Posted By Big Mike

SSD will reduce load time, but not "toggle" time...

SSD will reduce load time, but not "toggle" time as most likely this is in-memory at that point and is cpu dependant.

AnAnd just did a good review of the Vertex 3, best SSD to date:

OCZ Vertex...

Forum: Tech Support

December 13th, 2010, 03:37 PM

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SSD (Solid State Disk) could improve trading speed?

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Posted By Big Mike

And for linux guys, I think 2.6.33 or 2.6.34 is...

And for linux guys, I think 2.6.33 or 2.6.34 is needed for TRIM in the kernel, and even then only btrfs and ext4 support.

Mike

Forum: Tech Support

December 11th, 2010, 05:26 PM

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SSD (Solid State Disk) could improve trading speed?

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Posted By Big Mike

Make sure you buy a drive that supports TRIM,...

Make sure you buy a drive that supports TRIM, make sure your mainboard controller supports TRIM that you are attaching it to (ie: most 3rd party HW raid cards do NOT support it), and make sure your...

Forum: Tech Support

December 11th, 2010, 03:09 PM

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SSD (Solid State Disk) could improve trading speed?

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Posted By Big Mike

That is very true. But I am an old "storage"...

That is very true.

But I am an old "storage" guy (my last real corporate job was at a big storage company). So in my home alone I have about 12TB of disks, and lots of RAID everywhere, etc ;)
...

Forum: Tech Support

December 11th, 2010, 01:27 PM

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SSD (Solid State Disk) could improve trading speed?

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Posted By Big Mike

I agree with Sam. Your platform may load faster,...

I agree with Sam. Your platform may load faster, but the actual usage of the platform will not be any faster because it is not disk intensive.

SSD's are still fairly expensive, it's probably a...

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