WD Velociraptor 300GB or OCZ Core 64GB

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hi, im in the middle of building my system and i want a fast hard drive for the OS, and some games.
i wanted to know whether the performance difference between these drives is going to be that noticeable?
im not sure which to go for, as theyre about the same price and size doesnt bother me as im also having 2 320GB HDD in RAID0 for storage.
basically is the performance boost worth the drop in size?

any help would be great :D
 
As you say size isn't important I'd get the OCZ SSD drive, the difference won't be that noticable though. If warrenty is a factor for you then I'd consider the VRaptor as at 5 years its much higher than the OCZ SSD.

The trouble with SSD's is no one knows quite how long they will last in the long run so the warranties don't seem to extend as long as the better HDD's.
 
I'd go for a 74GB Velociraptor if i were you, £102 and will be very reliable, ssd drives will lose value extremely quickly, they have some performance issues at the moment and issues with controllers and drivers, packet sizes and other things, i'd stick with the velociraptor and upgrade to SSD in 1yr or so when you can get a 128GB cheap, reliable and fast.
 
ok thanks.
i think having the longer warranty means ill go for the velociraptor, since knowing my luck the ssd would fail the day the warranty runs out :D
also, i should be able to find a cheaper veloviraptor on ebay :D
thanks a lot
 
there are 74/150/300gb versions of the velociraptor, ocuk sell the 74gb for £102 ish, if you dont need loads of storage space get that version.
 
i would love to put to smaller velociraptors in RAID-0 but that would just be to expensive for me :(
as it is, ive been saving since June and only just got my pc up and running - using old hard drives. ive still got to get all the hard drives, monitor and mouse lol
 
clocka said:
ssd drives ... have some performance issues at the moment and issues with controllers and drivers, packet sizes and other things
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That`s only with OCZ SSD drives. Mtron SSD`s for example don`t suffer from these issues so don`t be put of SSD`s by that statement.

For me the performance boot is definitely worth the drop in size but it depends on your needs. If you can afford an SSD and can get one big enough I`d go with the Mtron 7000/7500 Series or maybe the MemoRight GT Series.

Of course a veloci would do :)
 
I was wondering about solid state drives life expectancy surely if it's flash based it could potentially last a lifetime ? or are they making them to fail after a certain time ?
 
It`s flash but its a higher quality of flash. Even so the write cycles are still limited, read cycles are unlimited.

I`ve had a 1GB usb flash stick for 3-4 years which has been used near daily as a scratch drive, it`s had many many write cycles and is still going strong. So I`m not worrying myself too much about the life expectancy of my SSD OS drive.
 
That's a bit different though, a SSD will be used constantly by the OS in the same places too which will wear them out much faster. Especially the page file area.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
That's a bit different though, a SSD will be used constantly by the OS in the same places too which will wear them out much faster.
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True that the OS is in constant use but it doesn`t get constant large writes like my usb stick has had. Using filemon you can see for XP it`s small occational writes and they are more often than not writes to existing files which means the writes are occuring at differant places on each write due to the nature of how writing works on SSD`s.
Plus the usb stick is of lesser quality, small and being filled up each time so over a long time it`s a fair indicator IMO all things considered.

I`ve been quite lucky with the pagefile, it`s been disabled for years and I can only remember a few instances of having to give it a few MB so a prog would run. Thankfully I`ve not needed to regularly use anything that insists on it`s existence.
 
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