I was about to buy two of the Caviar black drives to build my usual RAID 0 for my home desktop when it occurred to me that I might actually like having one SSD for a system drive and one big storage drive instead. What got me thinking about this was the below deal on a 64GB SSD.
Buy.com special, $109.95 with $35 rebate = $74.95
http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-64...al-solid-state-drive/q/loc/101/218194457.html
The SSD isn't SATA III, but I'm not sure that matters. My motherboard has a SATA III controller onboard, but I haven't seen anyone actually getting significant increases in speed using SATA III. My initial intent was to buy two of these SATA III 64MB cache Caviar black drives.
WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
Now I'm thinking that I might buy the SSD linked above and whatever 1TB or bigger green drive that is cheap and has good reviews. Has anyone actually done this already that has experience to share?
Buy.com special, $109.95 with $35 rebate = $74.95
http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-64...al-solid-state-drive/q/loc/101/218194457.html
The SSD isn't SATA III, but I'm not sure that matters. My motherboard has a SATA III controller onboard, but I haven't seen anyone actually getting significant increases in speed using SATA III. My initial intent was to buy two of these SATA III 64MB cache Caviar black drives.
WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
Now I'm thinking that I might buy the SSD linked above and whatever 1TB or bigger green drive that is cheap and has good reviews. Has anyone actually done this already that has experience to share?
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