Different brands of ssd in tye same PC?

Relentless81

Relentless81

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I was just wondering as im definitely pulling the trigger on a main system drive at the end of month I'll want a smaller secondary drive the following month, what are the potential issued if any of mixing and matching brands of SSD?
 
Relentless81 said:
I was just wondering as im definitely pulling the trigger on a main system drive at the end of month I'll want a smaller secondary drive the following month, what are the potential issued if any of mixing and matching brands of SSD?
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none assuming you are using them as separate drives.

Only issues, as mentioned above would be in RAID setups due to possible performance differences due to different controllers, different NAND etc.
 
Relentless81 said:
ok that's good thanks, its just that Samsung dont do 32gb drives and i want a 32gb drive for downloading and extracting to replace my old raptor
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Think you would struggle to get a 32Gb SSD now, only crucial have the old 32GB V4 drives

Downloading and extracting doesn't sound like an ideal use case for SSD

(downloading/extracting is normally fairly sequential so an SSD is not of great advantage, and presumably you extract and delete the original archives, or extract, install something and delete the installer... sounds like a lot of churn and unnecessary writes that I would keep away from an SSD)
 
Armageus said:
Think you would struggle to get a 32Gb SSD now, only crucial have the old 32GB V4 drives

Downloading and extracting doesn't sound like an ideal use case for SSD

(downloading/extracting is normally fairly sequential so an SSD is not of great advantage, and presumably you extract and delete the original archives, or extract, install something and delete the installer... sounds like a lot of churn and unnecessary writes that I would keep away from an SSD)
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it was the v4 i was going to get for this purpose, im surprised at the comments in regards to an ssd not being ideal for this purpose though i thought it would have been ideal
 
Lots of writes would be unhealthy for the disk, and a SSD's main advantage is the (lack of) seek time. For downloads and unzipping, you won't really see the benefit.
 
Ok, now that I think about it, it makes sense

Whats the quickest mechanical drive out there at the moment? Last time I looked into it, it was the Samsung Spin Point F1 which is currently my main system drive which is about to be demoted to storage drive once the SSD gets installed
 
Relentless81 said:
Ok, now that I think about it, it makes sense

Whats the quickest mechanical drive out there at the moment? Last time I looked into it, it was the Samsung Spin Point F1 which is currently my main system drive which is about to be demoted to storage drive once the SSD gets installed
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Velociraptor
 
amigafan2003 said:
Velociraptor
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Velociraptors are only fast with regards to low seek/access times due to their 10k rpm, the sequential transfer rates are no better than any 7200rpm hard drives.

For high sequential data rates, you want hard drives with the highest data density per platter. I believe the 1TB WD Blue is the current favourite for high data density as it uses just 1 platter to reach 1TB.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-366-WD


Additionally as was done back in the day, partitioning or short stroking high data density drives to say 300Gb, normally give benchmark results for access time and transfer rates above raptors/velociraptors. I did this with a Samsung F3 when they were cutting edge (and partitioned at 200Gb was equal on access times and far faster for sequential transfers than the 150Gb Raptor X I had at the time)
 
Thanks, I really dont need all that storage space though, I'll just use the old Spin Point F1 for that

Maybe I'll just stick with the old Raptor drive for now and just concentrate on replacing the system drive with SSD
 
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