Raptor or SSD?

caithomas44

caithomas44

caithomas44

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It is time to replace my HD which the OS is on. Earlier in the Year i replaced a old 250gb drive which was clunking with a shiny new 500gb drive, i did a direct mirror copy of one drive to the other. Unfortunatley this decreases perfomance by miles!

I therefore want to get a drive purely for the OS. (the rest of my system, files and games are run from a myriad of SATA drive and an external HD)

Which would give better preformance? a 30GB SSD ( the £69.99 OCUK has on pre-order ATM) or a 36GB Raptor?

This drive will ONLY be used for the OS and not any programs. The programs will reinstalled onto a few spare raided drives.

This will be the first upgrade of many to come in the next few months.

(I have been offered a 750w toughpower for £50 (new)) and will upgrade to the 280GTX once my dissertation is out of the way; so i am not tempted to play on it rather than do university work :p
 
caithomas44 said:
It is time to replace my HD which the OS is on. Earlier in the Year i replaced a old 250gb drive which was clunking with a shiny new 500gb drive, i did a direct mirror copy of one drive to the other. Unfortunatley this decreases perfomance by miles!

I therefore want to get a drive purely for the OS. (the rest of my system, files and games are run from a myriad of SATA drive and an external HD)

Which would give better preformance? a 30GB SSD ( the £69.99 OCUK has on pre-order ATM) or a 36GB Raptor?

This drive will ONLY be used for the OS and not any programs. The programs will reinstalled onto a few spare raided drives.

This will be the first upgrade of many to come in the next few months.

(I have been offered a 750w toughpower for £50 (new)) and will upgrade to the 280GTX once my dissertation is out of the way; so i am not tempted to play on it rather than do university work :p
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I'd wait a few weeks as there is a lot bette SSD's coming out very soon. At the moment there is issue's with the current solid states drives that are ou at the moment, unless you do a lot of fine tuning with windows and so on its not worth it. There is a 30gb ocz vertex drive coming out soon which looks promising, patriot and G SKill also bringing new drives out within the next few weeks, so there will be plenty of options at reasonable prices.
 
SSD's currently suffer from a maximum read/write cycle where as a conventional HDD doesn't have that problem. as said i'd wait a bit until that problem has been solved, and until the price drops also
 
I can't really waoit more than a few more weeks of low ussage (i have a laptop to let me survive) but the HD that the os is on now needs to be reinstalled on a fresh hard drive :)

so people say that i should wait until the end of Jan and get one of the new small SSD drives then?
 
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