Two 64 gb's C300 better than one 128gb?

RomanNose · 13 Apr 2011 at 09:17

I have a budget of about £200 and I am thinking of getting an ssd.
I play a few games and I doubt that I could fit My OS + programs + Flight simulator. I have heard from many people that an SSD really helps with flight simulator and I do play a fair but not that much at the moment due to exams.
Anyhow, so far I have got it down to the C300 because it is fairly cheap and performs well, I have not done much research on other ones though. Currently I am on X58, I have no intention to change to Sandy bridge, it has six Sata 3 ports so I have no shortage of ports.

I have no intention of raiding them just because I really don't want data loss issues, but anyhow if I get two and put them just as separate drives I will have 2* the Speed of a single one and the same size, the price difference between two 64 gb's and one 128gb is not that much, so what do you think I should do?

Tekgun · 13 Apr 2011 at 09:47

Having two separate C300 64GB drives will not give you 2* the speed of one 64GB, they will just run at their stated speeds independently, although this may be helpful for reinstalling the OS and things like this. Only by using RAID0 would the throughput of using two drives increase. Also the 128GB version has a higher write speed. Personally if you need 128GB then I would go for the single drive option.

Danfoss2011 · 13 Apr 2011 at 10:05

RAID 0 will give you 2X the speed, thats the only way to get faster other than buying a faster drive.

I use an SSD as my OS drive with any or all aplications installed to that. All my hard data is on a NAS so it's backed up, safe and my system stays in peak speed.

I also can then access my NAS via the 5 pc's, 3 laptops and 2 iphones in the house which is handy

RomanNose · 13 Apr 2011 at 10:51

I was not meaning that it would be 2x faster, but I mean combined speed it will be 2x faster for read as I would put my games on one drive and Os+programs on another.
Anyhow, I think I will go for a single drive and I have plenty for hard data anyway ( something just over the 5tb mark).

Danfoss2011 · 13 Apr 2011 at 11:01

chaosdestro0 said:
I was not meaning that it would be 2x faster, but I mean combined speed it will be 2x faster for read as I would put my games on one drive and Os+programs on another.
Anyhow, I think I will go for a single drive and I have plenty for hard data anyway ( something just over the 5tb mark).

An SSD is faster than a normal drive, how much faster depends on your SSD and also the SATA drive. I noticed huge gains when jumping from 3GB/s to 6GB/s port.

Some games mainly STEAM stuff i've heard don't like SSD's, how true i don't know it's not something i've come across.

Using 2 SSD's for OS and game will be faster than a normal drive. Running in RAID0 will be very very fast but again also will come down to your SATA ports.