Solid State Disks

smids · 14 Apr 2007 at 18:47

Whilst there are no seeks, '56MB/s read, 32MB/s write speeds', everything else won't be as fast. A perp tech drive will read at average 65Mb/s and write at the same speed. True, in reality seeks are probably more important, unless you plan on dealing with large files and transferring them, unpacking and packet etc, but the cost at the moment just doesn't justify it IMHO.

Jimbo · 14 Apr 2007 at 19:01

Your joking right? windows folder in vista is 10 gig alone. Leave well alone, they are far too small and far to pricey at the moment.

Angus-Higgins · 14 Apr 2007 at 19:03

Jimbo said:
Your joking right? windows folder in vista is 10 gig alone. Leave well alone, they are far too small and far to pricey at the moment.

I wasn't joking. I was not aware that the Windows folder is 10Gb (I have never used Windows Vista [I did not own a spare computer on which it could be installed during the beta stage]).

Would a 10,000 RPM hard disk drive be quick?

Angus Higgins

smids · 14 Apr 2007 at 19:29

A raptor indeed would be.

mosfet · 14 Apr 2007 at 19:48

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17708762

At the moment these are far too expensive and slow to be viable for anything other than ultraportables and rugged laptops.

32GB will seem too little for what you're asking, let alone 16.

You'd be much better off getting a good 7200RPM drive than either a Raptor or SSD. There's so few reasons to buy a 10,000RPM these days, all but the 2 latest Raptors are bested by 7200RPM drives for speed and the extra heat and noise isn't worth it.

Jimbo · 15 Apr 2007 at 13:25

Angus-Higgins said:
I wasn't joking. I was not aware that the Windows folder is 10Gb (I have never used Windows Vista [I did not own a spare computer on which it could be installed during the beta stage]).

Would a 10,000 RPM hard disk drive be quick?

Angus Higgins

Sorry mate I didn't mean to sound like that. Yeah it wouldn't be viable running vista on that drive, I can heartily recommend Western Digital 320 gig AAKS drives, I just got one and its very fast, compared to my raptor.

cavemanoc · 15 Apr 2007 at 16:28

If I had the cash I'd definitely get a 32Gb on for the Windows partition - heck, even the 16Gb one would be enough - cut that load time... mmmmm..... can't be a bad thing - as since it seems faster than all the current laptop drives on average read/write... mmmm...