re solid state or not

markrachuk

markrachuk

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hi there, i am building a gaming pc, have done a search, which hasnt really answered my question, i am not sure, which would be better raided solided states or two raided velcer raptors, please excuse silly question and spelling .any info/ help would be appreciated.
 
ChrisLX200 said:
SSDs are not really here yet, not much choice anyway, and they're high price. Wait a while - or go with VRaptors or raided F1s...
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Yes, they are high price, but then - so are raptors. A typical large capacity HDD works out at <8p/GB. A 150GB raptor is about 90p/GB - more than 10 times as expensive as a regular HDD, and noisy with it (so I've heard). A 120GB SSD is available for less than £1.80/GB these days (Solid series), which is only twice as expensive as the Raptor, and silent with it. And yes, there are pros and cons for each of them, but if you're looking at buying a raptor you're not getting a good price/gb ratio anyway, so SSDs are worth looking at seriously.

Raided F1s, on the other hand - that's a good, cheaper, suggestion, but try to make sure you get ones with newer high-density platters - I've heard these can be almost as fast as Raptors in sequential read/writes, though they can't compete on access times.
 
miniyazz said:
Yes, they are high price, but then - so are raptors. A typical large capacity HDD works out at <8p/GB. A 150GB raptor is about 90p/GB - more than 10 times as expensive as a regular HDD, and noisy with it (so I've heard). A 120GB SSD is available for less than £1.80/GB these days (Solid series), which is only twice as expensive as the Raptor, and silent with it.
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From what I've read you can't RAID the Solid Series so you've got to look at SDDs at a much higher price bracket if you want to RAID them, as the OP does.
 
If you can afford it, a couple of the Intel x25-m drives will hands down beat velociraptors. Anything cheaper isn't going to be worth it until the Vertex generation of drives with cache arrive.

You can get good performance in RAID with the current gen of OCZ drives, but you have to put down plenty of dough to get a decent raid controller with on-board cache too, which negates much of the advantage. On-Board RAID won't cut it.

I have Raptors, but they are horribly noisy.
I have two of them in RAID0 for double the noise and they are incredibly annoying, especially as the rest of my comp is almost silent.
 
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kazakore said:
From what I've read you can't RAID the Solid Series so you've got to look at SDDs at a much higher price bracket if you want to RAID them, as the OP does.
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Oh, interesting.

Well at that point it's time to start wondering if you get better performance from a single Solid series SSD compared to two Raptors in RAID :p
I suspect the Raptors would win on most counts, but not on loading lots of small files, and they might not win against a Vertex series, but that's a whole different ball game at well over £300!
Yer go with the Raptors at the moment, unless noise bothers you, in which case either an SSD or a couple of regular (333-500gb/platter) hard drives RAIDed.

On a side note, any chance of three drives in RAID 0? Or just no!?
 
Zarf said:
Oh, its definitely noticeable - However I'm eagerly awaiting decent SSD's reaching £1/GB so I can afford to replace them.
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RAID is noticable but the difference between the Raptor's and the Blacks isn't noticeable in my experience... and certainly nowhere enough to warrant the extra cost and noise.
 
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