Raid F1's or Vertex?

[mpj88]

After having some issues with 2 320gb F1's in RAID 0 i sold one of them realising that they were quite different revisions. Now i did notice a difference in performance/boot up times etc.

The question is should i get 2 brand new 320 RAID editions and sell the other one (easily done at a lan party i go too) or get a vertex 30gb which is about the same price for my OS and keep games etc on the current 320gb?

Not sure about the ssd as i dont know much about them plus i wouldnt gain any performance in my games just using the OS.

 

[mpj88]

Well if it was me and 30GB was enough for my OS and apps I would get the SSD as it will give you much greater response from the operating system. As you said it wont speed up games on another drive though. Depends if the extra storage is something you need and if you really want the games to load faster or the OS to be quicker, but bear in mind the OS will be a lot quicker on an SSD.

Hawker

Yeah no where near enoughspace for os, apps and games!

I jus want something quicker than a single F1! Think my games load at an ok speed already hence why i thought about an ssd for quicker boot time and on desktop etc! Plus when they drop in price i can add more in RAID for bigger storage and faster speeds!

get a samsung 64gb SSD and have operating system and games on it.

Havnt heard about these, will have a look. Only looked at ocuk website so far!

 

[mpj88]

Those samsung ssd's certainly look tempting faster speeds than the vertex and only a few pounds more for double the size. Will OcUK be getting these in? Anyone used them or seen performance tests?

Correction: The write speed is slightly less

 

[mpj88]

Seen on another forum saying that samsung uses its own controller so not the Jmicron one so it is stutter free. Trying to find out about the cache now!

 

[mpj88]

i believe that price is for the SLC version? if you look on the bay they are there for around £120 + p&p