looking for fast setup, money is not an issue.

Ninja Please! · 7 Apr 2009 at 16:46

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?

Ninja Please! · 7 Apr 2009 at 17:09

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!

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.

Ninja Please! · 7 Apr 2009 at 18:34

D D Danneh said:
Money not an issue?

That video was incredible. In that case, money is an issue

Ninja Please! · 7 Apr 2009 at 20:12

DeathTyrant said:
Exactly how much of a non-issue is money then?
Can you afford 2 or 3 Intel X-25 Extreme 32GB drives in RAID 0?

well obviously not $20k, which is what the setup was in the link. Any reasonable setup would not be out of my range.

Ninja Please! · 7 Apr 2009 at 20:16

clocka said:
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.

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.

Ninja Please! · 8 Apr 2009 at 00:13

are the intel x-25's better than the ocz vertex's?

Ninja Please! · 8 Apr 2009 at 01:29

Ben M said:
yes.

Before you buy a SSD, read this (It's long, but I found it really interesting and informative)

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

thanks for the link. That was very interesting. Basically, I think I'll go with one intel x-25 m seeing how it has less performance loss over time.

Ninja Please! · 8 Apr 2009 at 01:33

LeJimster said:
The Intel is strongest in small random writes. However, every other area the Vertex is similar to or faster than the Intel's. Real world usage you will find very little between them.

Cmon, guys OCZ or X-25, decide please because I can't now. Does anyone have any of these drives that can give me some advice? And why are ppl still getting long load times with these? Given my specs, what kind of post 2 boot time do you think I could expect?

Ninja Please! · 8 Apr 2009 at 01:41

What about this: OCZ OCZSSD2-1S32G 2.5" 32GB SATA II SLC, it's SLC so then it won't lose performance over time correct? is that better than the vertex?

Ninja Please! · 8 Apr 2009 at 02:19

in that case the vertex is definately more wallet friendly.

Ninja Please! · 8 Apr 2009 at 03:36

So should I wait?

Ninja Please! · 8 Apr 2009 at 16:46

Hmmm, well with the Trim update coming soon, I may just go with the vertexs as even though money was not really an issue I did say bang for buck was a major concern of mine. I bought an i7 because money was not an issue. I bought the 920 because Bang for buck was also a major factor.

Man Friday is almost here, and I can taste my new components already!!!! getting another psu for sli, monitor for my next PC build and of course an sdd hd. Yeah Boyeee!