Recent content by Malcolmk

I must admit conventional drives are very poor at the moment. It seams like everyone is cutting back on costs and therefore reliability. I just went back to the Samsung F1 drives after failing to find a decent replacement drive. The F3 drives have a very erratic transfer speed and don't raid...

That's great news for everyone who bought an 80gb G1. Also the file copy speed is the file copy speed. You can't double it.

Oh please. Double the figure for the correct file copy speed. That makes my crucial ssd's 400-500mb/s. Also the drive was an 80gb X25-M G1. It's not hard to try it for yourself. I use a 4gb folder of RAW files as my standard test.

No that's the actual internal file copy speed and you can try it yourself if you want. 20mb/s with vista and 30mb/s in windows 7. Yes the intel has a good read speed but when it comes to write speed the crucial and corsair drives are more that twice as fast and 3-4 times faster at internal file...

It's real simple. You have the performance manager running while you shoot through the south american slums map and it will tell you what the hard drive was running at. You don't need a link to find that.

I'm running 4gb but I could change it to 8gb. I have a friend with a very similar system but he's got an ssd boot drive and his machine is a lot smoother and the framerate is consistently higher. The minimum drive speed for cod6 is 150mb/s if you want a smooth gameplay.

Mmmm why would you get the intel. It's one of the worst SSD's on the market. I know I bought one. A write speed of 70mb/s and a file copy speed of 20-30mb/s. My two 64gb Crucial SSD 's get 450mb/s read, 400mb/s write and 200-250mb/s file copy and have trim. I guess you can always do what I did...

Oh, of course and why was the 320gb drive in my games PC being maxed out in cod6 and causing the game to glitch. Anything with lots of buildings and bots has to retrieve data from the hard drive as your playing. Run the performance monitor the next time your playing and see what your hard drive...

Actually the ARC-1210 is $300 at newegg and I picked up a 1220 from ebay for $285. Also games like Modern Warefare 2 are very drive intensive and need a drive speed of 150-200mb/s to run smoothly. It's cheaper than one 128gb ssd and a lot better value. The other thing you must remember is the...

The point is I started with an Areca four channel raid card the 1210 and I am still using it four years later. There $350 in the states or you could find one on ebay for about $250. $250 for 5-10 years use is the cheapest component anyone will ever buy. How many cpu's, mainboards, memory and...

Well I have four Areca raid controllers and there the best things I have ever spent money on. Incredibly fast and the most reliable component in any system I have ever owned. Yes get rid of the $5 intel crap controller and get a dedicated raid card. My largest card at the moment is the Areca...

Well I'm using two crucial 64gb ssd's in raid 0 and it works great. There is a big gain in photoshop and the drives take up very little space. There connected to an areca 12 channel raid controller but I get 450mb/s read, 400mb/s write and an internal file copy of 250mb/s. The internal file copy...

No you won't have any problems. It's when you go over 2tb that windows has problems. I just upgraded my workstation to a 6.4tb raid 5 but I always partition in 2tb lots to avoid problems. I also have a Hitachi 2tb drive for back ups and it formats to 1.81tb. You will also find there is no real...

You could get away with a 64gb drive but it depends on what else your installing I tried an 80gb intel and after installing windows 7 and photoshop CS4 there wasn't a lot left. Personally I use two 64gb drives in a raid 0 and that works very well. Room for the OS, Photoshop, a few games and...

My Intel 80gb SSD only gets 14mb/s in Crystal Mark for the 4kb random read which is no better than any other SSD.