Final decision time. £££ SSD or not.

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Loved the response from my RAID0 Raptors in the last build.
I am looking to go a few steps better now though as I wont be doing it again for a few years probably

Some suggestions have been F1 spinpoints.

I really can't see Raid0'ing them being a good idea, but you could sell it to me if it really was obviously the way to go, however I really don't need a lot of space.
What I do need though is speed. :D

A few people have been "WTF" at my idea of a OCZ SATAII SSD, whether that was purely from a price pr Gb point of view or the fact they might not be good tech yet, I don't know...


Basically my thoughts for the finished system would be.

O/S on SSD
Games on my two old Raptors (RAID0 again)
Data on a spare 250Gb WD Caviar (SATA)

Need to make my mind up pretty fast as I want to order it all tomorrow if I have any chance of getting it by the weekend.
 
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Is it really worth it just to store the o/s on? You could raid1+0 6 of the f1's for that price! 3TB raid 0 with redundancy! I guess it would be almost the same speed too.
 
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and all the other dross that comes with a decent media integrated web browsing setup yes.
email, java, flash player etc..

I'd like it as snappy as I can make it in both time to boot and general day to day usability, whether that be just browsing the web or playing a game
 
I dont think SSD's are anywhere near cheap enough yet to warrant buying for anything other than spcialised extreme hard drive requiring tasks.

That said though, you would have a big e peen! :)
 
Ahh crikey, PRE ORDER
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Fair enough that you wanna get something like this. But I'd be put off atm just because the tech you'd be looking at would still be fairly young. I'd wait until a few more companies come out with SSD's.

It's as people are saying a lot of money too, you're saying you're in a rush to order - for that amount - I'd wait till the weekend and properly do the research.

If you do get a SSD (did you say that you were going to RAID them?) then benchies please!
 
As soon as the right drive is out at a good price, ill be getting 2 64gb in RAID0 for O/S AND Games.

That will show a huge improvement over any mechanical disk without a doubt in my mind. Many vendors are poping up all over with new disks all the time

I would say in about 6 months, they would be fairly common to find, esp on UK stores.

Cheers mechanical disks! :)
 
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I took the decision to put my 'play' money into a new high-end programmable robotic rover, eSATA card and 1TB MyBook Studio instead.

Although I would love one to replace by MBP's internal drive, I have 70GB used already and I needed the mass amount of fast storage for a home project. Although 64GB would have been good, I'm not sure if the internal MBP SATA is 150 or 300 because my current 5400 rpm drive is SATA 150.
 
I didn't order today as my man on the inside was busy :D

So no rushing to get it for the weekend now, no big deal.
 
i did read up, i can't find any way of getting the o/s to stay in ram when you power down. I did see you can copy the image of the O/S from a HDD or CD, every time you boot. Is there any other way of doing it?
 
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