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Ninja Please!

Ninja Please!

Ninja Please!

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Hey mates!
I'm looking for a new hd setup to beat my current one and that should not be hard- 500gb WD Caviar Green Powered (7200rpm, 16mb cache). It's not a bad drive, but it's all I got. It loads vista from post to boot in 36 sec. I have been on youtube and seen two velociraptors in raid 0 take 46 secs to boot vista. Please tell me they were doing something wrong as I don't understand why mine loads so much faster. I was totally planning on buying 2 velociraptors to run in raid 0 until I saw that. Is there a better setup? money is not really an issue but I prefer to get more bang for buck. I'm only interested in 2 hd's to run in raid 0 for simplicity. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as hd's are the subject I know least about. Are ssd's better than velociraptors?
 
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Good SSD's are better than velociraptors. How much space do you need? Could get 2 SSD's for Raid 0, and a 1tb for data for example.

Edit: You will have to do some SSD tweaks on Vista.
 
There is far better setup.

Get two (or more) SSD's running in RAId 0 as your boot and apps drive array, then add a couple of large drives for data storage, say a couple of 1Tb drives in RAID 1 for redundancy.

If money really is no object then I'd go for: 2 x 60Gb Vertex SSD here and then 2 x 1Tb Samsung F1's here.

Your mobo should be more than capable of running that lot off the onboard controller. Enjoy! :D
 
FaceplantSi said:
There is far better setup.

Get two (or more) SSD's running in RAId 0 as your boot and apps drive array, then add a couple of large drives for data storage, say a couple of 1Tb drives in RAID 1 for redundancy.

Your mobo should be more than capable of running that lot off the onboard controller. Enjoy! :D
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Yeah I could even keep the 500gb for files storage for at least another year before I use it up. I do music and games. Movies are too large for too carp of quality most of the time. I got tired of trying to find "good" rips and such.

Also I was looking to run off of my mobo so thanks for the sugesstion. I get paid friday and as I'm still considering options, and new suggestions from any other members, This so far may be the ticket.
 
Go for the OCZ Vertex SSD drive, pick the size that will do you. You dont need 2 for raid0, 1 will be plenty fast enough, ssd's are pretty expensive still but 1 of these will do you very nicely.
 
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Go for the OCZ Vertex SSD drive, pick the size that will do you. You dont need 2 for raid0, 1 will be plenty fast enough, ssd's are pretty expensive still but 1 of these will do you very nicely.
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I was actually debating just one for the moment. Mainly because I already go from post to boot in 36secs, on the above mentioned hd, so I would think just one of these would most certainly be faster, and then I could go raid 0 later.

My question about that is, If I decide to go raid 0 later will I have to completely re-install my OS again once I buy the second one?

Also is there any noob need to knows on the ssd with 64vista ultimate? Please tell me the "tweaking" process isn't as in depth as OC'ing a cpu.
 
yes you'd need to format and re-install windows if you got a 2nd to do raid0. Tweaking isn't like overclocking, much simpler, guides on ocz's forums, its just changing some registry values and options in windows to make it use better block sizes and things.
 
If money is no issue... and your not interested in quiet... forget SSD get yourself an SAS controller and RAID a couple of SAS drives, great performance, low seek times and no problems with write lifespan.
 
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