SSD or RAID0 2x1tb drives

SSD is a tricky thing right now. Many of them perform rather poorly, and it's hard to tell which. I'd say either go all out and buy a slc SSD or Intel SSD, or go with the 2x 1TB drives.
 
the slc's are not as good as the mlc ive heard!!

the g.skill i was looking at has had good reviews, no stuttering etc but that is expected in the price £280..

what sort of performance will i get from the 2x1tb drives in raid0 config?
 
funkysnair said:
the slc's are not as good as the mlc ive heard!!

the g.skill i was looking at has had good reviews, no stuttering etc but that is expected in the price £280..

what sort of performance will i get from the 2x1tb drives in raid0 config?
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Nope slc drives are much better than mlc. And I don't really know the performance levels of 1TB drives in raid0. Wait around for other users, I'm sure there are people who are experience with raid.
 
If your thinking of getting some SSD's then have a look into Patriot Warp V2 drives.
RAID 0 with 2 drives can do 238Mb/s read and 155Mb/s write, 4 drives can do 652Mb/s read and 225Mb/s write, which IMO, if you want SSD and speed, get them :D
 
mac550 said:
If your thinking of getting some SSD's then have a look into Patriot Warp V2 drives.
RAID 0 with 2 drives can do 238Mb/s read and 155Mb/s write, 4 drives can do 652Mb/s read and 225Mb/s write, which IMO, if you want SSD and speed, get them :D
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Right now SSD's are too new for the consumer market. The affordable drives do not offer good performace. The SSD's that perform great cost way too much to be used in an average users computer. Right now I have 3 WD RE2 16MB Cache drives that were about 75 dollars a peice and I get a solid 230mb/s read and can get up to 300mb/s. That's 1.3TB (after formatting) of space as well. The value is still in mechanical drives. You can not come close with SSD's in that respect.

Also side note most SSD's are only guaranteed for 100,000 write cycles. After that you will only be able to read the data off of them. They have not matured enough yet to use.
 
mac550 said:
^yeah i know that mechanical drive are better for Gb/$ but a 32Gb SSD for $79.99 is still a damn good price for a really fast SSD.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3956991&CatId=4214
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All I would like to say to that is don't believe everything you see. If you notice they say "up to". Here is a review against an ordinary WD drive and as you can see the performance gain is not much:http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/in...sk=view&id=650&Itemid=27&limit=1&limitstart=2 The lower cost drives are on par with conventional harddrives right now. Only if you purchased something like Intels drives you will see a performance gain.
 
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THERMAL-REACTOR said:
All I would like to say to that is don't believe everything you see. If you notice they say "up to". Here is a review against an ordinary WD drive and as you can see the performance gain is not much:http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/in...sk=view&id=650&Itemid=27&limit=1&limitstart=2 The lower cost drives are on par with conventional harddrives right now. Only if you purchased something like Intels drives you will see a performance gain.
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so that ssd is not that much better than a regular hdd?
 
I wouldn't go with 2 1TB drives.

While its more expensive I buy 320gb drives from seagate.
Nothing sucks more then having a HDD die...and I noticed with 1TB+ drives they tend to die faster (no clue why)

Even 500GB would work...but I prefer small HDDs I use 4 320gb which is more room then I need and if one dies I only lose 1/4 of my data vs all of it.




SSD I would wait...let it mature and let the prices go down. Lets face it 32GB for 100 bucks is retarded at best.
Also I believe older chipsets will BUTCHER the speeds on the SSD drives as well...something to look up and make sure.


Also my buddy has a SSD and he says its bit faster then his 10k raptor RAID0 set up...but he said it wasn't worth the cash yet. I was going to buy a used 32GB one (for 50 bucks) as a main and use my 320GB drives as storage.
 
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Twist86 said:
I wouldn't go with 2 1TB drives.

While its more expensive I buy 320gb drives from seagate.
Nothing sucks more then having a HDD die...and I noticed with 1TB+ drives they tend to die faster (no clue why)

Even 500GB would work...but I prefer small HDDs I use 4 320gb which is more room then I need and if one dies I only lose 1/4 of my data vs all of it.




SSD I would wait...let it mature and let the prices go down. Lets face it 32GB for 100 bucks is retarded at best.
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hehehe you said retarded

(i just wanted a better post then +1 cause i completely agree)
 
mac550 said:
If your thinking of getting some SSD's then have a look into Patriot Warp V2 drives.
RAID 0 with 2 drives can do 238Mb/s read and 155Mb/s write, 4 drives can do 652Mb/s read and 225Mb/s write, which IMO, if you want SSD and speed, get them :D
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these drives have the jmicron controllers in them, its the newer patriot warp drives that are good...

samsung drives are ment to be good too, they use there own controllers aswell.

i have a week to make a decision on what to get.

i might just settle for a 750gig drive and another 4gig ram :)
 
DarkTears said:
so that ssd is not that much better than a regular hdd?
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The low end SSD's are not that much better. You have to spend atleast 400 to get a drive worth buying. Even then spending 400 for only 128 gigs seems not worth it. It just needs some time, in a 1 year it will be the choice for most enthusiast.
 
Why do you guys want to run RAIDs, it just cracks me up. I bet most of you would never even get the benefit of running RAID 0 and you are taking all the risks. Especially with an OS like Windows, which it will crash. I mean all OSes crash, but Windows crashes more for sure.
 
tlarkin said:
Why do you guys want to run RAIDs, it just cracks me up. I bet most of you would never even get the benefit of running RAID 0 and you are taking all the risks. Especially with an OS like Windows, which it will crash. I mean all OSes crash, but Windows crashes more for sure.
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well what do you suggest?

what do you need to get the full benifit from raid0?

my vista has not crashed since i got it installed, had memory prob's but voltage increase solved that!
 
OK, quick and dirty.

You are better off getting 1 high speed drive rather than two less expensive drives in RAID 0. RAID 0 does not boost performance anywhere in your machine except for data through put. So if you were rendering 3D complicated objects and our HD was being written and read from constantly then yes you would see performance increase. If you load gigs upon gigs of raw video on your RAID, then yes you get boosts.

Gaming, office work, most graphic design work, and web surfing plus media play back get zero benefit from RAID 0. You also run a higher risk of failure because if one drive fails the whole array is trashed.

Next if you want to use a super large drive you better chop it up into partitions. It will take a HD a lot less time to seek through say 300 gigs of data over 1TB of data, thus lowering your seek time. Keep your apps and OS on the fast drive, and then keep your data on a large data drive.

It is safer, cheaper and better performing than two drives in RAID 0.
 
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