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I have a Maxtor 160 gig sata that I run windows and my games on. I also have a 200 gig IDE drive that holds video and music. After curiously looking around here when the SSDs caught my eye I decided to do some bench tests on my drive and think about doing an upgrade.
As it is I ran HD tune pro
Minimum 4.9mb/sec Maximum 68mb/sec and Average 47.7mb sec. 13.6ms access time, 110mb/s burst rate. This was under the read, not the write as I got an error saying that I need to clear all partitions?
I am primarily a gamer, but I am installing and uninstalling games often.
Under something like a $120 - $140 budget what drive(s) should I look at upgrading to?
I need about 200-300 gigabytes nothing much more. I'll use the 200 maxtor for storage of the video/music.
I was thinking maybe short stroking 2 WD IDE Caviar 640's in a raid array?
A single raptor would be nice but I think the 300 gig is out of my price range.
SSDS don't appeal to me right now becuase of the price and because of the problems here and there with them.
So what should I be looking at and what should I be looking at for setting up?
As it is I ran HD tune pro
Minimum 4.9mb/sec Maximum 68mb/sec and Average 47.7mb sec. 13.6ms access time, 110mb/s burst rate. This was under the read, not the write as I got an error saying that I need to clear all partitions?
I am primarily a gamer, but I am installing and uninstalling games often.
Under something like a $120 - $140 budget what drive(s) should I look at upgrading to?
I need about 200-300 gigabytes nothing much more. I'll use the 200 maxtor for storage of the video/music.
I was thinking maybe short stroking 2 WD IDE Caviar 640's in a raid array?
A single raptor would be nice but I think the 300 gig is out of my price range.
SSDS don't appeal to me right now becuase of the price and because of the problems here and there with them.
So what should I be looking at and what should I be looking at for setting up?