Best HDD Upgrade?

InfernoUk · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:01

Hey looking to upgrade my drives as they are holding back my pc overall at the moment.

Spending around £100-£120. Ive looked at the SSD's in this price range and they seem pretty ok. However are there any other fast options? i currently have a raptor 74gig with the OS, Programs and Games on it, and another drive for storage.

The new drive will just replace the raptor with OS and Exe files etc, no storage stuff.

Is SSD the best option, or for example another raptor to RAID ? As im a bit of a noob when it comes to hard drives !

thanks for any help

mattjd · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:06

I would personally spend £189 on a 80gb Intel SSD because they are really good

InfernoUk · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:07

mattjd said:
I would personally spend £189 on a 80gb Intel SSD because they are really good

i dont have that much, got to stick with the ammount i said, so would only be the 40gig intel

stulid · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:08

SSD is in another performance league than any hard drive.

Intel X25-M
Kingston V+

Are silly quick, someone will post more alternatives in a moment.

Some SSD can actually be terrible, it depends which controller is used.

www.xbitlabs.com have a SSD round up recently posted.

mattjd · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:08

If you are going to buy a 40gb Intel SSD it isnt worth it because the performance also goes down by almost half.

So maybe a 100gb Velociraptor for £99

InfernoUk · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:19

mattjd said:
If you are going to buy a 40gb Intel SSD it isnt worth it because the performance also goes down by almost half.

So maybe a 100gb Velociraptor for £99

so your saying a raptor is better than the 40gig ssd

stulid · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:27

A raptor has more space, can't think of anything else?

InfernoUk · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:31

stulid said:
A raptor has more space, can't think of anything else?

well the SSD will have win 7 install and a few programmes and games, the raptor i currently use will then be for little used programmes or bigger ones, and the storage drive for media etc, so im not sure but 40gig might be enough capacity for those uses ?

Also i have a CM Cosmos Pure case, which has mounting issues with SSD's so im guessing ill need to bubble wrap it to take up the extra space or something

stulid · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:39

Aswell as the xbitlabs reviews.

www.bit-tech.net have lots of SSD reviews.

Click on hardware, then storage, and have a look.

If the reviews are anything like the sister mag custom pc, then they might compare them to a raptor.

InfernoUk · 1 Apr 2010 at 21:46

stulid said:
Aswell as the xbitlabs reviews.

www.bit-tech.net have lots of SSD reviews.

Click on hardware, then storage, and have a look.

If the reviews are anything like the sister mag custom pc, then they might compare them to a raptor.

they dont seem to have the x25-v on the reviews which is the one im most likely to get