velociraptor vs ocz solid state series 60gb 2.5 sata 2 vs raptor?

mythrandyr · 11 Dec 2008 at 22:45

hi guys,

forgetting the storage space factor, based on system performance alone as a single disk drive used for loading say windows vista and some standard apps from, which of those 3 drives would win in a performance contest? i'm trying to sift through a lot of posts on the internet and i am confident that the Raptor is out of the running but would i notice any real difference in terms of performance between the ocz solid state and the velociraptor?

clocka · 11 Dec 2008 at 23:51

the ocz v2 drives are quite a lot quicker than the velociraptor especially the seek time and no noise of course. The driver situation with them isn't perfect you should research that first to see if it will work for the hardware you will be using it with.

mythrandyr · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:04

i have made 2 posts previously that have detailed the hard ware that i am using and i don't want to mention it again because i don't think it will be fair and i don't want to be seen as a spammer or as a bragger but aslong as the solid state hdd works on a p5q3 p45 deluxe motherboard and an antec skeleton case, then i'm good but i can't get the V2 series, overclockers used to sell them but now they only sell ocz solid series which are not the same drives, with a read rate of 155mb a sec & write rate of 90mb sec. I have heard that velociraptors are better performers and now the intel ssds are out which are just out of the question, £500 for one drive? sod that.

Happy · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:12

Get an Intel SSD, the OCZ aren't favoured on here for obvious reasons. VR is good but noisey

SlyReaper · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:24

Happy said:
Get an Intel SSD, the OCZ aren't favoured on here for obvious reasons. VR is good but noisey

My VR is quiet as a mouse. I can sometimes hear it clicking faintly when it's getting a good thrashing.

reflux · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:26

Basically the only SSDs worth bothering with are the Intel ones. The technology isn't quite there yet.

clocka · 12 Dec 2008 at 13:43

true reflux, i aint buying any ssd drives any time soon, the software, driver and controllers arent very good. I'll wait for cheap mass produced intel drivers or maybe even pci-e solid state drives like the $3000 that was recently reviewed. Give it 9 months and ssd will probably be a good alternative, at the moment they are overpriced and under-par.

John24 · 12 Dec 2008 at 14:17

reflux said:
Basically the only SSDs worth bothering with are the Intel ones. The technology isn't quite there yet.

The Intels are good drives but that isn`t true, Mtron and Memoright are very good too. A 16GB mtron is now just £75 and it`s SLC based, so their not excessively expensive as they once were either.