Upgraded from my Velociraptor stripe

Well as a long-time spinning hard drive performance junkie I finally jumped and went the SSD route. I've got 2x 32GB X25-E's for my OS, 2x 80GB X-25-M's for my games and I'll keep the 300GB Velociraptors around for when I need capacity. The problem is that I only have 6 SATA ports on my board so I'm not sure what to do about my optical drive. My other problem is that my 8TB of crap that sits on my home server feels so slow now that I never want to touch it.

I'll post back on my impressions for anyone who's interested.

My god, I am somewhat well to do, but congrats on being crazy rich.

If I was in your position, I would have to trade in the 2 magnetic drives for a single terabyte drive.

Otherwise you can add a cheap SATA card to run the optical drive.

Or, if your MOBO still has an IDE port, you can grab and IDE drive.

Don

DonDon said:

If I was in your position, I would have to trade in the 2 magnetic drives for a single terabyte drive.

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That's actually a great idea. I have a couple 1TB drives that I haven't used in a while. I'll just use one of those.

I ran the SANDRA filesystem benchmark on the X25-E's and wow.

i am thoroughly impressed

xp3nd4bl3 said:

The problem is that I only have 6 SATA ports on my board so I'm not sure what to do about my optical drive.

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Get an external 5.25" eSATA or USB enclosure for that one.

I currently thinking of selling my 2x300GB Vraptor that i used before and get 2xWD Black 640 for 1,2TB storage, it has both speed(cant stand the slow rotational drives anymore when SSD demolished that experience) and space while they are cheap and at the same time make my 1TB Samsung an external eSATA backupdisk.

Dedicated Raid0 SSD drives!
Great clean and fast setup!
This is how those crazy expensive, gold plated setups should be built!

I love how 300GB velociraptors are now the big, slow, storage drives

I though, sold mine to make room in the budget for a Vertex.

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I love how 300GB velociraptors are now the big, slow, storage drives

I though, sold mine to make room in the budget for a Vertex.

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No, they are the small, relatively fast, but overpriced storage drives. But compared to SSDs, I concede your point.

WD has been screwing over the performance market for several years with the Raptor line. It's good to see some competition finally. Not really competition, but a good ol fashioned butt whoopin. This is even worse than when the C2D was first released.

I have a feeling we will soon be seeing much larger 10K drives as they desperately try to compete with SSDs. They will fail of course. If the hard drive manufacturers think times are tough now.....

Don

The difference between the Raptor and any other spindle drive is negligible for storage purposes.

Sell your raptors. Buy a single WD 2TB drive. And if you have a ton of cash and want to minimize noise even more you could pick up one of those fancy Panasonic DVD drives that go for like $80.