VelociRaptors vs. SDD

[Eng1neering]

What's best for performance (boot drive and running main apps)?



WD VelociRaptors 10,000 RPM vs. SSD?




Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136296

or

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136322



VS.


Solid State Disks

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150636&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE

 

[jive]

HI,
I have two vertex 30gig in raid and I used the tools develop by the community in ocz website to set everything to be optimal, moving swap file temp and other thing I don't remember.
for the SSD drive you also have to update the firmware too the last version, to used windows 7 to it's full possibilty, meaning using of the trim command.
If you're not familar with any of thoses task or the process to doing it it's more easy and secure to get a velociraptor, 2X150 (258$ for 280gig of storage) in raid then setting everything for the ocz vertex. you will see an improvement in your systems and it's a little bit cheaper.

 

[sminlal]

So i am not saying that VR beats all and wins all. I am just trying to state the fact that there are crap SSDs out there that are not worth the money at all compared to a normal HDD

And what I'm trying to say is that even the crap SSDs beat ANY hard drive in SOME respects. So whether they're "not worth the money" depends entirely on WHAT kind of performance you're looking for.

But I personally would spring for the extra cost of an Intel.

 

[Eng1neering]

Newegg is having a OCZ SSD as it's shellshocker on Thursday morning.

Good heads up 😀

 

[Guest]

Hey guys. im going to be doing a new build soon. Will be running windows seven, rig will be for gaming ONLY. Music etc i keep on a removable wd hdd. Do you think a decent sdd (up to $600 budget tops) is the fastest choice? Been outa the loop for a while, was going to go vr's raid 0. Could get by on 150gb storage space min. Also Just wondering if there are an problems with ssd's malfuntioning etc.