Better to buy SSD or do hardware RAID

[koorosh13hm]

Hello,
I am truly really new to hardware basics. I have a laptop with two 5400 round per minute hard disks. As I need to boost the laptops speed, I want to know if its better to configure Hardware RAID or to buy a new SSD Disk and install it on the machine.
Thank you very much in advance for guiding me through this.

 

[AdviserKulikov]

SSD is much better. You have to do some very impressive RAID configurations to beat out the performance of an SSD. Those solutions would not fit in a laptop.

 

[koorosh13hm]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/255659-32-500gb-raid

 

[koorosh13hm]

@AdviserKulikov : Thank you very very much.

 

[AdviserKulikov]

@AdviserKulikov : Thank you very very much.

Any time, keep in mind you're going to be paying way more $/GB for SSD solutions, keeping one drive as a traditional HDD will allow increased storage. You can move your OS and any thing you want to load quickly (games, startup programs) onto the SSD for a compromise between cost and performance.

 

[koorosh13hm]

Sure will, I have some performance considerations in mind and what you said will be way too better than what I had in mind. Thanks again

 

[boosted1g]

SSD hands down will beat even 4 drives in raid 0 because of the complete lack of seek times.

As stated having both is a best of both worlds situation
Some laptops actually have 2 slots in them for hard drives.
Mine did not so I got a dvd-drive caddy that allows me to remove my dvd drive and it keeps a hard dive nice and snug in there and interfaces to the port sata dvd drives use. So I have my ssd as boot drive and my regular HDD still in the computer for mass storage.