Solid State or Raptor.
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Yeah it's a massive leap, and that's coming from a Vraptor owner! That being said considering the price of SSD's I'd personally considering getting a smaller SSD like a 120Gb and installing your games on the raptor.
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Agreed!
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The diffrence will be like Night/Day.
Just no comparison between a Raptor to a SSD.
Just no comparison between a Raptor to a SSD.
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No not at all
put the OS and autodesk on the SSD and other programs on the raptor, quite clear above.
this is quite unreal to me... i was reading the SSD thread because last night one of my VelociRaptor 150GB 10kRPM drives in raid gave me the click of death. screwed everything up compeltely and now i'm on a skelton drive to get the net on, got sick fo using the phone.
as i'm still seeing people report these drives failing is the way definately to move to these?
sorry for jumping in on your thread but i thought maybe the answers would also be of interest to you if you are looking as i am too.
i leave my rig on 24-7, i never turn it off is that more likely to damage the SSD's than a raptor?
as i'm still seeing people report these drives failing is the way definately to move to these?
sorry for jumping in on your thread but i thought maybe the answers would also be of interest to you if you are looking as i am too.
i leave my rig on 24-7, i never turn it off is that more likely to damage the SSD's than a raptor?
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Go for SSD for speed - no question - but under no circumstances store any important data on them. I've had two Vertex LE drives and now a Vertex 3, with both the former failing completely and the latter regularly bluescreening despite updating to the latest firmware. I also built a machine at work including a Vertex 2 and that failed within two months. If you cloud important documents with Dropbox, reference link your My Documents folder and AppData (for video game saves) to another drive and regularly system image your drive you'll be fine.
When paying £300+ for a drive (which the first was at the time) you expect them to at least have a life expectancy of 2-3 years. Perhaps it's just OCZ but I definitely don't trust SSDs at the moment.
When paying £300+ for a drive (which the first was at the time) you expect them to at least have a life expectancy of 2-3 years. Perhaps it's just OCZ but I definitely don't trust SSDs at the moment.
that is exactly what bothers me. speed is great but if the reliability isn't there is it worth the hassle? standard Veloci raptors seem to have a life of 4-5 years used 24-7.
the cost between them and the SSD's seems minimal in comparisson, i'm just not sure which way to go.
you mean there havn't been any reports of cruicial drives going down?
i always liked Crucial but i stopped using them after losing 3 lots of Balistix ram in a short space of time on 2 different rigs.
If you mean standard HDD's then a modern 7,200RPM drive, such as the Samsung F3 1TB, has similar performance to the WD velociraptor.
Go Crucial - the lastest frimware gives a big boost to performance
Your mobe only supports Sata2!
I own 6 of the spinpoint f3,s and can say with out doubt the best drives iv ever owend.
Thay will out perform the raptors.
I would go a 120g ssd for o/s and a few programs that would benifit it.
And two 1tb f3,s in raid 0 partitiond as 500gb and 1.5gb.
any games or bloatware backups would go on the 500gb and the 1.5gb for
storage.
simples
Yes, but you'll be limited to around 280MB/s.
So taking into account this speed drop, is it Still worth it?