74gb VelociRaptor

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Hi lads,

struggling to decide between 2x30gb OCZ SSD's, and 2x74gb Velociraptor's both in RAID0, any thoughts?
Also anyone know when the 74gb will be available as its been on pre order for a while.

Cheers Dom
 
I Webnoted OCUK and they said they have no ETA on the velociraptor so its anyones guess when they will be in stock.:rolleyes:
 
I might just ditch the raptor idea and go with the ssd's. Im unsure about these ssd's though hmm decisions decisions:confused:

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okay, it comes down to either

2x OCZ Core V2 30GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive in RAID0 £304
60gb total

or

2x Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB in RAID0 £260
300gb total

I really cant decide :S
 
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Do you think there will be much difference between the 32gb OCZ and the 30gb V2 OCZ? the 50 quid seems a bit harsh.
 
pfft, sammy f1's with the 320gb platters, raid them instead and save youself a small fortune....
 
The SSD's are pretty nasty atm, they produce lovely synthetic benchmarks but writing and multitasking with them isn't great.


Unless you RAID them and then they work just fine :)

To be honest I have been testing SSD's for some time now and if you try to do 5-6 intensive tasks at once on a single drive, they will hang. If you only do 1-3 disk intensive tasks at once on a single drive they work just fine.... Two drives in RAID0 means the XP loading screen progress bar barely crosses the screen once. Windows explorer and small apps open instantly and big apps see much improved load speeds.

Add in a further 1-7 drives with RAID0 or RAID6 and you can get some utterly insane speed. Of course if you go beyond 2 drives you have to get a decent commercial hardware RAID card as the domestic versions will cap out pretty rapidly, but then you wouldnt be buying SSDs right now for the storage capacity so why skimp on the controller! :) Google for the "Battleship mtron" for a very extreme case study.
 
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