Which is faster Raptor vs Solid State

Stephen7372 · 12 Apr 2007 at 18:08

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-043-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

vs Raptor :confused:

Anyone seen Harry Hill when he says fight !

touch · 12 Apr 2007 at 18:13

solid state said:
56MB/s read, 32MB/s write speeds

Raptors use SATA II which can be up to 3GB/s transfer speed.

The solid state drives have ~0 seek time but their transfer speeds (IDE remember) let them down, so atm they are still slower than raptors. However, this will change in time.

rpstewart · 12 Apr 2007 at 18:18

touch said:
Raptors use SATA II which can be up to 3GB/s transfer speed.

All the Raptors are still SATA1.

It makes no difference though, they can only hit about 80-85Mb/s in sustained transfers anyway so there's plenty of bandwidth.

Toytown · 13 Apr 2007 at 11:48

Also at times when there is multiple IO, the raptors speed will fall to pieces, whilst the solid state, wont change.

Sirrel Squirrel · 13 Apr 2007 at 15:52

I reckon it'd make an excellent boot drive and would be ideal for putting certain apps on, such as video editing programs or photoshop where you can setup scratch disks so all the big bits of data come off and go on to a different drive.

bledd · 13 Apr 2007 at 18:08

for that money, go for an i-ram

Toytown · 13 Apr 2007 at 18:56

for that money, go for an i-ram

You can buy 32GB of ram and a I-Ram card for cheaper?
You can place 32GB of ram on an I-Ram card?

bledd · 13 Apr 2007 at 19:15

Toytown said:
You can buy 32GB of ram and a I-Ram card for cheaper?
You can place 32GB of ram on an I-Ram card?

just re-clicked on the link i thought i read 3gb for some reason :confused:

i retract my comment