SSD vs raid 0 raptors

lomez · 28 Jan 2012 at 14:32

Hi, there thinking of buying a SSD, was wondering how a ssd would perform in real world vs 2 raptors in raid0 is it worth the cost and will i see large benefits from a ssd, considering my mobo only has sata 2?

{SAS}TB · 28 Jan 2012 at 14:35

SSD is noticably faster, even on SATA II

PistolPete · 28 Jan 2012 at 18:45

This is 4x 80GB Velociraptors in RAID0 so 2x will struggle to beat most SSDs:

{SAS}TB · 28 Jan 2012 at 18:48

Yeah, I have had RAID0 Raptors (still got the RAID on my rig as a Steam drive) for a number of years and the jumpto the old M225 SSD was noticable

Now on a pair of 128 GB M4s in RAID 0 and just waiting for my next upgrade to release the SATA III goodness

JamesM · 28 Jan 2012 at 20:34

You'll love it

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ecksmen · 28 Jan 2012 at 20:39

PistolPete said:
This is 4x 80GB Velociraptors in RAID0 so 2x will struggle to beat most SSDs:

Raptors will not beat an SSD in actual real world performance, the important factor is the seek time.

Forget benchmarking for raw transfer speeds - compare the disk queue lengths, an SSD will always be faster.

PistolPete · 28 Jan 2012 at 21:08

ecksmen said:
Raptors will not beat an SSD in actual real world performance, the important factor is the seek time.

Forget benchmarking for raw transfer speeds - compare the disk queue lengths, an SSD will always be faster.

Kinda my point. 4x can't even beat a decent SSD on synthetic benchmarks so 2x have got no hope in real terms....... unless the SSD is a Patriot PS-100.
But to be fair I only paid £35 for it new.