Purchasing an SSD, need advice! :)

Liamalxd · 29 Dec 2010 at 17:39

hey guys,
tonight i will be wanting to purchase a solid state drive for my main gaming rig.
but im really struggling to make me decision.

ideally i want a revodrive 240GB but i cannot get one since my motherboard only has 1 spare pci-express slot and if i use it it will take my main slot (which houses my 5870) down to 4X instead of running it at 16X

so ideally i want a drive to REPLACE my main 500GB 7200rpm sata hard drive.
(around 240GB) but i'm wondering if i should get 2 x 120gb's and put them in raid 0? (maybe see double performance)

what do you guys think?

i thought of just getting a 120gb ssd and then installing games on my hard drive still but ... whats the point of having an ssd if all you have on it is windows?

Thanks for your replies in advance.

Liamalxd · 29 Dec 2010 at 17:48

been looking at the Crucial C300 256GB model, any good?

Cookeh · 29 Dec 2010 at 18:15

RAID0 on SSD's are pointless. Hardly makes any difference

Liamalxd · 29 Dec 2010 at 18:20

Cookeh said:
RAID0 on SSD's are pointless. Hardly makes any difference

How do you explain the Revodrive then?

NasherUK · 29 Dec 2010 at 21:08

Even just with windows on it and everything else on a normal drive it makes a difference. No more waiting as the drive/windows grinds away trying to keep up

Si105 · 29 Dec 2010 at 21:10

Liamalxd said:
How do you explain the Revodrive then?

He means, SSD's are so fast you wouldn't notice, and thats its definitely not worth double the cost, which is correct.