Want a fast boot drive...

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Hey all.

I want a nice fast boot drive for windows only. I was thinking either a 36gb Raptor or a 16mb Samsung SSD, but I have a few questions of those 'in the know' about HDs....

1 - Is the SSD going to be noticably faster than a 36gb Raptor at loading the OS and for general use?

2 - Is 16gb enough for a Vista install (as that is what I will no doubt try next).

3 - the SSD is a PATA drive...does that I mean I just use the good old rounded PATA connectors or is there something special needed?

4 - SATA versions of the SSDs due any time soon?

Any opionions/advice would be welcome!

P.S. I dont want to raid the boot drive.

Cheers
 
Blackout said:
Hey all.

I want a nice fast boot drive for windows only. I was thinking either a 36gb Raptor or a 16mb Samsung SSD, but I have a few questions of those 'in the know' about HDs....

1 - Is the SSD going to be noticably faster than a 36gb Raptor at loading the OS and for general use?

2 - Is 16gb enough for a Vista install (as that is what I will no doubt try next).

3 - the SSD is a PATA drive...does that I mean I just use the good old rounded PATA connectors or is there something special needed?

4 - SATA versions of the SSDs due any time soon?

Any opionions/advice would be welcome!

P.S. I dont want to raid the boot drive.

Cheers
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1 : My raptor is quite a bit quicker at loading and installing windows than a normal drive, and loading maps of games etc. Not sure what to say about SSD's, apparently they are fast but how fast i dont know.

2 : Certainly.

3 : PATA is just PATA? i assume

4 : no idea

obviously the price of the raptor drives is a lot sweeter a deal over the solid state drives, maybe there are reviews somewhere comparing them to normal hd's. The best thing about the SSD's seem to be that you wont get any whining noise and they wont fail? or at least not for a very long time.
 
16GB will be enough, but you could come across problems with lack of space to expand service packs, patches, updates etc. I don't know whether windows would adapt around this and use free space on another drive.

To be quite honest I think your cutting it too fine.

Just buy a 74GB Raptor, you probably wont notice a huge difference.

Give SSD's a few more years.
 
Cheers folks. Yeah perhaps I'll just go raptor this time round then (good point about the updates and patches FirebarUK).
 
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