What's best?

Pretty sure it's the momentus xt 500gb in RAID 0 that's the best I just want confirmation. Also, I was wondering if an SSD and HDD configuration would out perform although I assumed it would only out perform with applications on the SSD and I need to remain in an £150 budget. What would you recommend Overclockers?
 
Or a 120GB SSD for £80 ish and £70 for a 1TB storage HDD. works out about £20 cheaper than 2x 500GB XT's with 120GB extra space which has the performance benefit of the SSD seek times/throughput for OS and many other frequently used apps.
Better than the 8GB Nand on the 2 drives and without the raid 0 hassle.

What are your expected uses?
 
You could even go with intel RST SSD caching if you wanted (z68 chipest or newer). Put the cache etc on drive. Install windows to the rest of the SSD and have a bigger single drive cached, use the rest of the SSD as you will. You'd basically get almost the same setup as the momentus XT raid but with a "proper" SSD with control over what was on it as well.
 
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You could even go with intel RST SSD caching if you wanted (z68 chipest or newer).
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I have a Foxconn P67A-S (P67) (soon to be B3 as I sent it back on RMA:D) which I don't think is available for *SRT.
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Install windows to the rest of the SSD
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I seem like buying an SSD just to install windows on it is a bit of a waste to shave a few seconds off boot time. Opinion?
 
From what I've read the Momentus XT does not cache writes in NAND memory, meaning that writes on the Momentus are only at HDD speeds.

Personally I would choose either a regular SSD, or the Western Digital black and Intels RST SSD caching. Unlike the Momentus XT Intel RST caching does allow writes directly to the SSD caching.
 
JasonM said:
From what I've read the Momentus XT does not cache writes in NAND memory, meaning that writes on the Momentus are only at HDD speeds.

Personally I would choose either a regular SSD, or the Western Digital black and Intels RST SSD caching. Unlike the Momentus XT Intel RST caching does allow writes directly to the SSD caching.
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What is RST? You and Mercutio have both mentioned it. Don't you mean SRT? If you do, I don't think I am illegible for it as I have a P67 motherboard. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Juvenile said:
What is RST? You and Mercutio have both mentioned it. Don't you mean SRT? If you do, I don't think I am illegible for it as I have a P67 motherboard. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Correct, you'd need to upgrade to a z68 or z77 board to take advantage of SRT.

I'm currently using the WD Black which is a pretty solid drive.
 
Depending on the number of games you intend to install, a 128GB SSD may be enough. OS and other frequently used programs are the only ones worth loading to SSD. Any other infrequent programs/madia etc would get no benefit from hybrid/SRT anyway, and storage/large drives tend to hold a lot of that type.

Its been some time since i messed with raid 0, and although thing are far easier to set up now, negating that aspect, there is the increased chance of array failure due to 2 drives. Even though I regularly clean install, id prefer to do it at my leisure. Back then it failed due to corruption of some kind (both raptor drives were fine and used for many years after independantly) and I didnt perceive much performance improvement for the while I ran it, and no where near comparable to my cheapo ssd that I use now.
 
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delpy8 said:
there is that many but I like the samsung ssd on this weeks offers or vertex 4 they are all good

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-150-SA
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lol yes I like that too! But it is unfortunately not affordable :D especially as it will not be my main storage device I would not need that size! I was looking at the OCZ Agility 3 120GB as I think I would pay £20 extra for double the capacity of the 60GB version. Only problem is it looks like it has many problems with firmware which is worrying.
 
There are 2TB HDD's on sale for similar prices if you fancy more storage.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-244-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955 Seagate barracuda green 2TB

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-255-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955 Seagate barracuda 7200 rpm 2TB

Atthough warranties are not as long as the WD.

The sandisk Extreme seems a good drive from reviews, ive been contemplating getting one, and shunting my current ssd to the laptop, but am also in need of more storage so have to decide what to spend my monies on atm (or I could not be so lazy and organise/delete a lot of junk of my current 1tb drive).
 
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I ended up getting the Sandisk Extreme 120GB and WD black 1TB previously mentioned along with 4GB extra of RAM and some thermal paste :D
 
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