Well i was going for a budget of around £110 for a raid 0 set up, Do you think i could find a good ssd for around that? Maybe a bit more (£120 MAX) If not i may have to leave it with christmas coming up. need to start saveing soon lol -_- theres an intel one on here for £159 that looks amazing.. but once again way out of my budget.
Three 500GB 72000RPM in raid 0 Vs 10,000RPM rapter for gaming
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Well i was going for a budget of around £110 for a raid 0 set up, Do you think i could find a good ssd for around that? Maybe a bit more (£120 MAX) If not i may have to leave it with christmas coming up. need to start saveing soon lol -_- theres an intel one on here for £159 that looks amazing.. but once again way out of my budget.
I'm also running Intels on both my desktop and laptop. Got two X25-Ms at home and went for the cheap X25-V option for the laptop, and TBH in everyday use I can't see much of a difference between the two models. Benchmarks show a huge difference of course but in practical terms the value drive does the job well. You would also see a small gain by splitting your games off from the OS drive. It also makes it far easier to keep on top of fragmentation which will impact games to some degree.
Something like an X25-V or similar from rival manufacturer plus a 30 quid 500 GB F3 would do the job and just over your £100 budget. The added bonus of this option is that you will get a significant performance gain to your OS and apps too. Which SSD is another matter and there are certainly lots of threads and heated debates for you to browse around here
Personally, I went Intel because of the good random reads, reliability, and exceptional wear level handling but many will argue in favour of OCZ, etc because of the higher sequential writes which to me...well...meh! I don't use these drives for constantly shovelling huge files around.
It's just another alternative to consider and not trying to say my sugeestion is best but I have a fair bit of experience with arrays and I honestly think you'd be diappointed in the three drive stripe for gaming. Sure, you'd see a small difference but I suspect you'd then wonder why you went to all the hassle. You'd also have room to spare for installing a couple of your favourite games on the SSD.
Something like an X25-V or similar from rival manufacturer plus a 30 quid 500 GB F3 would do the job and just over your £100 budget. The added bonus of this option is that you will get a significant performance gain to your OS and apps too. Which SSD is another matter and there are certainly lots of threads and heated debates for you to browse around here
Personally, I went Intel because of the good random reads, reliability, and exceptional wear level handling but many will argue in favour of OCZ, etc because of the higher sequential writes which to me...well...meh! I don't use these drives for constantly shovelling huge files around.
It's just another alternative to consider and not trying to say my sugeestion is best but I have a fair bit of experience with arrays and I honestly think you'd be diappointed in the three drive stripe for gaming. Sure, you'd see a small difference but I suspect you'd then wonder why you went to all the hassle. You'd also have room to spare for installing a couple of your favourite games on the SSD.
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Something like an X25-V or similar from rival manufacturer plus a 30 quid 500 GB F3 would do the job and just over your £100 budget. The added bonus of this option is that you will get a significant performance gain to your OS and apps too. Which SSD is another matter and there are certainly lots of threads and heated debates for you to browse around here
Thanks ! your post has given me a lot to think about
It would be a nice added bonus that the os starts up a tiny bit faster and apps open slightly quick etc but tbh on my 1Tb 7,200rpm HHD it doesnt that that long to load as it is. Spesh since ive overclocked my processor everything seems to load just nicely its mainly for the games. Lord of the rings online alone uses 13Gb! >< So its more down to space. I think i may have to save up for one of the 80Gb's 
Only problem is when i have the OS on the ssd, it will mess my personal files up a bit. I have a lot of music and saved radio shows (Howard stern F T W
...) I could just store all my music/pictures on my 1TB and the os on the ssd.. but ive tryed something similer and itunes messed right up -_- It couldnt find my music and when it did, all the notes i had added to the radio shows had gone! So i may just go with installing just the games on the SDD and Os on a HDD for now
..im still looking at a 60-80Gb tho :'(
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Get the 80gb like I have then for £140 second hand.
Install the least regularly used on a 500gb 7200 disk.
Raid is a waste of time unless you require the seq speeds it offers.
Raid isn't the way forward here!!
Your apps will open and run a helluva lot quicker!
Regarding iTunes, etc it's a piece of cake to tell the prog that your music is stored on another drive. It's in the advanced options tab under settings. When you need to renistall it takes literally seconds to point iTunes to the existing root music folder and it'll find all your music again using the add folder command. Same goes for most software. Whenever I need to re-install the only backup I need to do is recent emails and that's it! You could even store a backup image of the boot drive on the HDD and restore everything in minutes.
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Your apps will open and run a helluva lot more quicker!
My bad
sorry theyw ill run a lot quicker..but i dont really have a problem with how there running and opening now. Just the games that stream content from the hard drive I rarely photshop or video edit or anything along them lines would there really be that much point if im happy with them opening at the speed they are on the hdd?EDIT: just ran steam and it took 10 seconds to open. I wasnt really sat there thinking COME ON!!! DAMN YOU!! lol
So i think it could be a waste of space for me personalyItunes took 2 seconds.
wow took 7 seconds (from nothing to opening launcher to starting game)
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Get a single 1tb F3 you crazy mofo.
LOL, a 72,000 rpm drive would be pretty fast. However, back in the real world, a single 7,200rpm drive will be SLOWER than a Velociraptor (which spins at 10,000rpm)
i knooow i knooow >< lmao *face palm* i failed lol! i did honestly mean a 7,200rpm
My big big bad lol^^ Or 2. One for OS/Office apps and one for games/media etc. They are very quick.
i love this >< around 7 ppl have been tyring to convert me over to the dark side (aka ssd) and as soon as i do.. some one starts trying to convert you back
lol!i love this >< around 7 ppl have been tyring to convert me over to the dark side (aka ssd) and as soon as i do.. some one starts trying to convert you back
I think I can be of help here, I recently downgraded from a 64GB Kingston V+ series (higher performance than the Intel your looking at) to a pair of 500GB F3's in RAID0 and to be honest I honestly haven't noticed a difference, honestly as far as loading applications, downloading files, word processing, internet, games, etc any difference has gone unnoticed by me.
I will point out though that I never sit in front of my computer when it loads I always turn it on then get a drink/hang up coat/take shoes off/feed cat/etc as it boots because im going to do those things anyway so best to coincide them with dead time for the PC.
I made the decision to change because I just couldn't fit everything I needed on the SSD, it held the O/S and WoW and HAWX but that was it and having to load Bioshock/UT2003/GTA4/etc off another drive made me consider getting RAID to speed it up and I decided the was no point having an SSD and a RAID0 array just for an extra second or so boot time so I sold the SSD to buy the drives and had some cash left over.
Im not trying to persuade you either way just voicing my experience, SSD's are the future, if I could have a free 256GB SSD id bin my HDD's but at the end of the day im not getting a free 256GB one, they cost more than 4x what a pair of F3's do and im not paying 4x as much for what's not even a 2x performance boost.
So ask yourself, is 80GB enough for everything you want to load/run "fast" and is it worth paying more than 2x as much for less than 2x the boost to you? that answer will tell you what to go for better than any of us can.
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When you use honest 3 times in a sentence it generally means youre lying lol
No ones trying to convert anyone, use what you want to use, just explaining to OP that the cost of 3 drives isnt far off SSD territory and SSD is much faster, period, the only draw back is space, but if youre clever how you organise things its not an issue
lolNo ones trying to convert anyone, use what you want to use, just explaining to OP that the cost of 3 drives isnt far off SSD territory and SSD is much faster, period, the only draw back is space, but if youre clever how you organise things its not an issue
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Buy one SSD and one of those samsung F3s you linked. Stick the stuff you use most (Windows, favourite game, etc) on the ssd and the rest on the hard disk. You're sorted. It's what I do with mine.
i have 3 rigs. 2 rig running on raid0 raptor 150gb. 1 rig running on the cheap patriot ps100 ssd. i recently purchased the 1tb f3 to add to the ssd rig.
yes the ssd is nice, i would say the performance is only marginally better than my raptor.
but looking at the money i spent on it. i would say, its just isn't quite worth the money yet. thats even me buying the cheapo patriot drive
in the other hand i was really supprise by the performance i got from the f3 drive for £44 for 1tb. i'm using the f3 to load games with ssd as boot drive. i would say the f3 is only marginally slower than my raid0 raptor150gb(the older 1s)
if it was my money i would bank on raid0 f3 1tb at the moment. until the ssd capacity/price ratio gets better.
yes i know i have crappy version of an ssd before ppl comment saying the patriot ps100 sucks
base on my money i would stick with mechanical drive at the moment.
if you have money throw then yea go for ssd
yes the ssd is nice, i would say the performance is only marginally better than my raptor.
but looking at the money i spent on it. i would say, its just isn't quite worth the money yet. thats even me buying the cheapo patriot drive
in the other hand i was really supprise by the performance i got from the f3 drive for £44 for 1tb. i'm using the f3 to load games with ssd as boot drive. i would say the f3 is only marginally slower than my raid0 raptor150gb(the older 1s)
if it was my money i would bank on raid0 f3 1tb at the moment. until the ssd capacity/price ratio gets better.
yes i know i have crappy version of an ssd before ppl comment saying the patriot ps100 sucks
base on my money i would stick with mechanical drive at the moment.
if you have money throw then yea go for ssd