ocz vertex or samsung f1 1tb raid?

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iv currently got maxtor 500gb in raid 0 as my boot. I get rubbish boot times, i bought a samsung f1 1tb not long ago for extra storage. What would be better for a boot drive samsung f1 1tb raid 0 (spending £70 on another drive) or getting a 30gb ocz vertex ssd for £ 125. Is the ssd worth it? or would it be just as good to get another samsung?
 
tbh I wouldn't put two Tb drives into a RAID 0 array as if they do go down, you'll lose a huge amount of data. I would say the OCZ Vertex would be my choice for boot drive from what you've said. The Vertex's are worth it imo and even a single vertex will beat a pair of F1's raided in terms of pure read/write speed and the vertex will positively destroy the F1's in access times.

Have you considered the new Samsung SSD's as they offer very good value for money, and some of the early results look very promising.
 
ok ok ssd it is then!
hmm vertex or samsung...?
im going to load windows 7 rc on it, photoshop cs4 extended and autocad 2010
you think the vertex would have enough room for that?
or will i have to slap out another £25 for another 34GB?
 
+1 for the Vertex.:p

Personally, I'd go 60GB or 2x30GB. After GTA IV, Micro word 07, and Farcry2, I only have like 12gb left. To be fair though, gta iv takes up waaaay too much disk space. Vista Ultimate 64x is my OS. I go from post screen to everything loaded in vista in 26 seconds. Impressive.
 
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Yeah I agree with Ninja Please! that 60Gb is really the min for a boot + apps drive setup - I started with 2 x 30Gb drives and quickly decided to add another to get 90Gb total to have some headroom for addtitional apps etc - I would have preferred 2 x 60Gb drives, but they weren't avail when I ordered, so now have Vista64, Office, Photoshop, Pinnacle Studio and several large games (Crysis, Far Cry2, Fallout3) and have about 40Gb free disk space out of my 90Gb.

To save some space you could look into slipstreaming a copy of your OS - I did a basic one as I needed to add SP1 to my Vista disk and during the process removed the additional language support from Vista which alone saved over 1Gb of installation - you could pare it down a lot more than that if you really wanted.
 
how do you slip stream an OS?
just through add remove programs, like the windows side of things?
or do you need an uninstaller?
 
if you can get a vertex drive for the boot/OS drive go for that. I certainly would not raid 2 terabyte drives together, for the price of the samsung F1 Raid Edition drives, you would probably be better getting a WD 2tb drive if you need the room for storage since you won't have to worry about the raid failing on you and loosing all of you're data. btw, slipstream really isn't that difficult to do, i had to make a slipstreamed version of windows xp for my laptop recently as it did'nt have any sata drivers installed, but make shure that you install the right raid drivers etc... otherwise you computer will more than likely BSOD on you when you boot if you dont.
 
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I just installed 3x Intel 80GB X-25M's in RAID0... OMFG iit's FAST. I'm getting 660MBPS reads and 220MBPS writes on average according to ATTO :-)

I also have 2x Samsung 1TB F1's in RAID0 for storage and they peak at aroung 200MBPS read and 110MBPS write. For the money the Sammy's are excellent drives IMHO.
 
mremulator said:
I just installed 3x Intel 80GB X-25M's in RAID0... OMFG iit's FAST. I'm getting 660MBPS reads and 220MBPS writes on average according to ATTO :-)

I also have 2x Samsung 1TB F1's in RAID0 for storage and they peak at aroung 200MBPS read and 110MBPS write. For the money the Sammy's are excellent drives IMHO.
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You'd hope so at nearly £900 outlay!

RAID 0 for storage? Backed up elsewhere?
 
miniyazz said:
You'd hope so at nearly £900 outlay!

RAID 0 for storage? Backed up elsewhere?
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Actually I only paid £239 plus VAT from the other mob. Still very expensive, but much cheaper than OCUK. :confused:

Backed up... nope. The way I see it is it's no different than having 1x 2TB drive. OK there is more of a risk with 2 drives. However, they are pretty reliable, so I'll take that chance.
 
mremulator said:
Backed up... nope. The way I see it is it's no different than having 1x 2TB drive. OK there is more of a risk with 2 drives. However, they are pretty reliable, so I'll take that chance.
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Well.. it's just a bit like putting all your eggs in one basket. With a 2TB drive if it fails you've lost that much data, but with 2x1TB drives you've only lost half if one of the drives fail, unless it's in RAID 0, and normally you don't need increased speed for storage..
Anyway I'm sure you've weighed up all the pros and cons when you decided to go RAID 0, so your funeral :p
 
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Well.. it's just a bit like putting all your eggs in one basket. With a 2TB drive if it fails you've lost that much data, but with 2x1TB drives you've only lost half if one of the drives fail, unless it's in RAID 0, and normally you don't need increased speed for storage..
Anyway I'm sure you've weighed up all the pros and cons when you decided to go RAID 0, so your funeral :p
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LOL, never had a stripe fail on me yet. Saying that a drive will probably die on me now! Anyway, it's mainly used for game installs and video, therefore, I'd soon get over it. Still worth it for the extra performance though IMHO. :)
 
startup times :S

dude how is your startup time with i7 and ssd at 26 seconds?
i had vista x64 ultimate loading off a hdd 250gb 16mb cache 7200rpm in under 12 seconds and i have windows 7 booting of two of them in raid 0 in less than 5 and i only have a core 2 quad.
something is messed up there
 
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