Velociraptor or a SSD?

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Like jak said. I doubt your OS will come to more than 15GB, but if you want to put a lot of games on it, you'll probably want the Velociraptor. I would go for the SSD though, since it's not always the high transfer speeds you benefit from, it's the low access times, and these help infinitely in OS usage. Plus, games don't benefit that much from being on an SSD, it's mostly just load times, which shouldn't be long on any half decent HDD.
 
64gb or 128GB SSD samsung based or vertex load games programs and OS onto it (as you was looking at an 300GB raptor) and an Norm disk (WD black drive or an drive you have got now) for all your other files, backups patches downloads
 
if you not interested in read and Write speeds then its far faster then any HDD out there Under norm use (like not messing with 5gb files but you can still do that)

this SSD is about the same speed of an HDD in Constant data rate transfers (but not random SSD is far faster then HDD) as most users seem to interested in the constant data rate speeds but its the Access speeds that makes SSD faster then HDD, this drive boots up windows faster then an raptor (new one) and any norm HDD

i have that SSD in my pc right now (my Sig)
SSD = OS, games, programs and got an HDD to store all my patches, updates, backups and any files you make (keep 20GB free at least on the SSD as it may do bad things to them like really slow it down)

most users just ignore the corsair SSD due to its data rate speeds you need to spend £100 more if you wish to have 200MB/s reads and 180MB writes (corsair P256 or samsung 128GB second gen) but you may find you not noties it unless you run benchmarks that do not do real world use (most benchmarks do 100x more then what norm do to an HDD)

you could RAID 2 of these SSDs to get the same performance of an vertex 128gb SSD (but you have 256gb space for corsairs for the same price) but i do not recommend that due to the TRIM command not working when it comes out, (samsung drives do not seem to need it thought as i have Written over 200GB to my drive and it is still operating around 85MB/s read and 70MB/s Write as advertised)
 
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leexgx said:
? not sure where i miss typed it
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Think he was voicing an opinion not correcting your spelling :p

My vote's an SSD too. Leexgx, didn't you say you had higher speeds when you first bought the Corsair? In other words, that the advertised Corsair speeds are the 'written to' speeds rather than the 'new' speeds (whereas all other drives advertise the 'new' speeds)?
In which case the transfer rates of the Corsair are more comparable to faster SSDs than the specs would indicate..
+1 for the S128, it seems very good performance for money in the SSD world.
 
its the HD tune or HD tach is Miss reporting empty space speed incorrectly, it goes to 156MB/s on free space of some sort

when i first got it was reporitng most of my drive as 156MB/s now any thing past 72% is reporting that speeds below 72% is the norm speed of 82MB/s , thats on reads (Writes are still at the norm speed of 70MB/s)

the access times is all i am interested in any way as thats what makes the SSD faster then HDDs under norm use, you only need data rate when messing with big 5gb or so size files and even then you should not be doing that on an SSD any way, every thing loads faster on my pc now games do not sutter on the load bar it just goes from one side to the other with out stopping
 
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