Hard Drive Or Ssd

Nick42 · 27 Jun 2009 at 13:38

Hi

I am looking into upgradeing my system but can't make my mind up on what type of drive to buy. At the moment i have a seagate 7200.10 with my os & games on it & a Hitachi 750 with data & a external for my mp3 & video's etc. I am wondering if i should get anouther Hitachi 750 to raid them or to save up & get a 128 ssd which would be best . I am running phemon 2 720 with 4 gig ram on vista 64 thanks for any advice..

Ninja Please! · 27 Jun 2009 at 15:52

The 128 ssd will mop the floor with the hdd raid0 setup. It's all about access times which are less than 1 ms for ssd's. Buying another hitachi would be a waste imho, unless you are just needing the extra storage, but it won't be a OS/games performance drive like you are looking for.

Nick42 · 27 Jun 2009 at 16:04

Thanks for your reply.

I am going to save up for the 128 SSD just to use for the o/s & games & the Hitachi will just be for storage/date better start saving then cheers..

leexgx · 27 Jun 2009 at 16:23

samsung based SSDs (90mb/s reads - 70MB/s Writes i own one of these eveyr thing is fast)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-000-CS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427 corsair S128 £181
or for 200mb read and Writes + £90 more
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-001-CS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427 Corsair P128 £270(2.5-3x faster on data rate then S128, access times are still the same fast speeds)

for Indilinx based SSDs, you need to use the Wiper tool to keep these drives up to speed untill Windows7 Trim support comes out on these disks
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-032-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427 OCZ agility 128GB (£253)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-003-GS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427 Falcon 128GB £268

Nick42 · 27 Jun 2009 at 16:46

Thanks

So is it more the access time i should look out for & not the read write aspect?. i could afford the first corsair if that was the case..cheers

Ninja Please! · 27 Jun 2009 at 17:01

leexgx has picked out some good ones where you can't go wrong.

Nick42 · 27 Jun 2009 at 17:23

Thanks

I will look into it & hopefully get one on Monday..

leexgx · 28 Jun 2009 at 14:06

i use the corsair S128 and apart form data rate speeds if i got one of the 200MB/s SSDs for £90 more your only talking about 1-4 secs better loading time and for most you not likely notice it but going from an HDD my system runs smooth on it now

Nick42 · 29 Jun 2009 at 11:26

Everything seems out of stock now

would this be ok cheers.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-001-KS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427

miniyazz · 29 Jun 2009 at 13:50

No-one knows. There's a chance they might be lacking in cache and prone to stuttering.

Edit: Product unavailable? Looks like they may have closed down the S128 line

Nick42 · 29 Jun 2009 at 18:20

Thanks

Just decideing which Corsair to get. The 90 write speed or the 200 write speed as i play a lot of command & conquer & championship manager . I also surf the internet a lot & go on football & Wwe forums cheers..

peahead · 29 Jun 2009 at 18:44

Hi

I bought the kingston 128g v series ssd last week and it doesnt suffer from stuttering the stuttering was with earlier jmicron controllers the v series has updated toshiba/jmicron controllers and firmware.

miniyazz · 29 Jun 2009 at 19:29

peahead said:
Hi

I bought the kingston 128g v series ssd last week and it doesnt suffer from stuttering the stuttering was with earlier jmicron controllers the v series has updated toshiba/jmicron controllers and firmware.

But does it have any cache? The reason the jmicron drives had stuttering was the lack thereof.
Also, it's entirely possible you might only encounter stutttering once the drive has been filled once and erased, i.e. there are no blank blocks.

peahead · 29 Jun 2009 at 19:49

Yes it has 64kb of cache.

miniyazz · 29 Jun 2009 at 22:22

Uh-oh. Stutter here we come.

Nick42 · 30 Jun 2009 at 14:50

I think i mite get the s128 found it for £160 then use it for a while then when the better ones come down in price i will give the s128 to my wife for her laptop cheers..