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Which HDD would be the fastest?

J-Man

J-Man

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Solid State Drive or a Seagate Cheetah 15k RPM?
 
Hello?
 
FitSeries will know... :laugh:
 
dude u got a good system... solid drives r too expensive and not much space... just get 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s in RAID0, thats around $110 got more money? i would save up for another 4870X2 u got 1200w power supply, use it
 
SSD's are extremely fast. I think there faster than Raptors. Especially if you get them in RAID. But it is your choice to spend the money on them.
 
Well the SSD will be SATA and the Cheetah will be either SCSI or SAS. So if you were to go with the Cheetah, you will also need to invent in a quality scsi/sas controller card, which cost a lot a money alone. SSD are as fast/faster as/than 15K SAS hard drives. SSD has no access time but they do have a lower lifespan then a enterprise class (scsi/sas) mechanical hard drive.
 
I'll wait for larger capacity SSD drives.
 
I would get a 74Ggb SSD for OS and games and such and then a nice TB or so drive for storage
 
I was thinking a VelociRaptor 300GB for my OS and games and my current drive (500GB) for other storage.
 
J-Man said:
I was thinking a VelociRaptor 300GB for my OS and games and my current drive (500GB) for other storage.
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i recomend getting 2 velociraptors 150GB in RAID 0 instead, that will give you excellent performance and will cost less than either an SSD or Cheetah. I think the last 2 are not very good solutions for a desktop. SSDs because they havent maturted yet and the good ones cost a fortune and SAS drives need expensive controller cards. If you had an i7 board with 2 SAS ports it may be worth it, otherwise stick with veloci. I have 2 in RAID and love em.
 
KBD said:
i recomend getting 2 velociraptors 150GB in RAID 0 instead, that will give you excellent performance and will cost less than either an SSD or Cheetah. I think the last 2 are not very good solutions for a desktop. SSDs because they havent maturted yet and the good ones cost a fortune and SAS drives need expensive controller cards. If you had an i7 board with 2 SAS ports it may be worth it, otherwise stick with veloci. I have 2 in RAID and love em.
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I agree with KBD, go velociraptors.

The SSD are fast, but the write times are a little lacking in my opinion.

I love my VR.:)
 
I am thinking about getting one 300GB VR in about a week then get a second 300GB or 150GB next month and put them in RAID 0 then have the 500GB I have seperate to store applications and other general files and use the VR for OS and games.
 
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