New Configuration

Danger Phoenix · 28 Mar 2009 at 21:50

I currently have:

5 x Western Digital 500GB
1 x Samsung 1TB

Now I want to replace all but the 1TB drive, so I was thinking:

1 x 60GB SDD for Windows
1 x Samsung 1TB (existing drive)
3 x Western Digital Green 1TB for Storage

My first question is, what do you guys think of this? And secondly, which SSD?

I generally prefer Western Digital, so I might sell the Samsung and get a Western Digital Black 1TB to go in its place (this drive won't be purely storage and will have quite a bit of reading/writing done to it, so I want it to be slightly faster than the others).

ConnectionFX · 30 Mar 2009 at 02:20

I would wait for the higher quality SSD's to drop in price as ive heard some bad stuff about the cheaper ones. This has put me off buying one atm.

Thats assuming you dont have a huge budget though

CaseyChaos · 30 Mar 2009 at 02:54

I'm thinking the same. Replace the Samsung with the WD black and use that for Windows for now and get the Greens for storage, that should keep you going till the SSDs are better and lower priced

Danger Phoenix · 31 Mar 2009 at 07:37

In that case, which single platter Western Digital drive should I go for for my Windows and Programs? I would rather keep it between 200GB and 400GB because I prefer dedicated drives and the extra space will just go to waste, so I was thinking:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-130-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=768

I would then have:
1 x Western Digital XXXGB Single Platter (Windows and Programs)
1 x Western Digital 1TB Black (Partitioned into Active Downloads and Storage)
3 x Western Digital 1TB Green (Pure Storage)

Zarf · 31 Mar 2009 at 11:19

If you've got the ports free, two 30gb ssd's in RAID0 will be about the same price as a 60gb, and a hell of a lot faster.
Thanks to the way ssd's work RAID0 makes a lot of sense. linear scaling with size and improved reliability. You'd get the same lifespan in a 2x30gb RAID0 array as you would a single 60gb because it splits the writes.

Danger Phoenix · 31 Mar 2009 at 17:10

Zarf said:
If you've got the ports free, two 30gb ssd's in RAID0 will be about the same price as a 60gb, and a hell of a lot faster.
Thanks to the way ssd's work RAID0 makes a lot of sense. linear scaling with size and improved reliability. You'd get the same lifespan in a 2x30gb RAID0 array as you would a single 60gb because it splits the writes.

You don't really get any more reliability with RAID 0 do you? In fact, you get more chance of failure surely?

Anyways, which would be faster:

1 x:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-014-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

or

2 x:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-010-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910