1Tb+ SSD's?
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If you've got the cash, you can already buy them - The OCZ Z-Drive and OCZ Colossus, but expect to pay well over £2000 for them.
Not a great deal of point though for home use as mechanical drives do a good job of sequential read/writes with large files for a fraction the cost. You can buy 5400rpm large hdd's which are pretty good on power and noise.
Use mechanical drives for storing media on, and SSD's for your operating system and apps/games, where they can play to their strengths.
Not a great deal of point though for home use as mechanical drives do a good job of sequential read/writes with large files for a fraction the cost. You can buy 5400rpm large hdd's which are pretty good on power and noise.
Use mechanical drives for storing media on, and SSD's for your operating system and apps/games, where they can play to their strengths.
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Why bother, archieving, a 5400rpm eco type drive will be next to silent, but most importantly, will turn off at idle using no more power than a ssd, nor making any noise nor producing any heat.
The only thing I dislike is, I like downloading to my mechanical drive to save writing so much to my ssd. I did have 2x fast 640gb's in raid 0 as thats how they were setup as my main drive before having the ssd. I do love how fast checking par's, unraring is on a nice raid 0 setup but they won't power down so you get constant two drive noise never shutting down. Since split them into single drives with a 1.5tb as backup, its much quieter and shuts down whenever its idle so even less noise and power. But damn if par checking/unraring is slow on a single drive setup.
I'd be tempted to get a smallish slc based ssd just for the downloading drive so when downloading overnight its silent and unraring and par checking is uber fast.
The only thing I dislike is, I like downloading to my mechanical drive to save writing so much to my ssd. I did have 2x fast 640gb's in raid 0 as thats how they were setup as my main drive before having the ssd. I do love how fast checking par's, unraring is on a nice raid 0 setup but they won't power down so you get constant two drive noise never shutting down. Since split them into single drives with a 1.5tb as backup, its much quieter and shuts down whenever its idle so even less noise and power. But damn if par checking/unraring is slow on a single drive setup.
I'd be tempted to get a smallish slc based ssd just for the downloading drive so when downloading overnight its silent and unraring and par checking is uber fast.