large SSD or 2 small SSD in raid0

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iceredwing

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Been thinking of making the jump. While the price has dropped dramatically, I'm still not willing to eat the price for 2x60's or 2x120s

I was think if going (2) 30/32GB SSD (like the vertex) would be better than just buying a 60-64GB

I'm pretty much a gamer, but loading times on my games with my Raid Velociraptors is fine. It is all the other stuff i'm doing that i want loading faster
 
Well, 2 is higher than 1. Or is that 11 is higher than 10.

I am currently running 4 X 30 gig OCZ Solids into a caching controller on one rig and 3 X 64 gig Patriot Warps on a second, and a single 60 gig Vertex on my work laptop.

If you do not mind messing with RAID, then the 2 smaller drives will give you the best performance. But even a single Vertex will be faster than 2 raided Vraptors in about every category accept writing.

I personally would go with the RAID.

Don
 
What sort of things do you want to load faster.

A single vertex will match RAID Raptors in most areas but will have much lower access times. RAID Vertex will increase sequential performance although for application load I'm not sure how much that will benefit. I prefer a multitasking myself over RAID (separate drives for writing and reading).
 
mostly windows, office, etc.

I load tons of apps in an everyday basis. And those damn seconds are adding up!

I've heard good things about the vertex and I'm inclined to try them. I just sold my X25-m and man i'm regretting it greatly (was using it on one of my laptops). And now my desktop feels slow even though it is a superior system
 
Yea, I'm hooked on the damn things too. I am quickly banning all magnetic drives in my house to storage only. I just have to wait for a new battery to come in for my last magnetic drive in my home laptop to see if that fixes some weird power issues before picking up a SSD for it too.

My daughter on the other hand is SOL. She will be stuck with her magnetic drives for the time being.

Don
 
iceredwing said:
harsh man.... harsh
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Nah, if she really could make the case that she needed them, she would have them. But all she mainly does is play on Facebook. So, NO SSDs to play on Facebook. :p

Oh yea, the Vertex is a good drive for the money. I have one in my work laptop and am very happy with it.

Don
 
now am i going to have to do a lot of 'tweaking' to get the vertex purring?

of course she needs it on facebook, so she can open the tabs in a faster pace
 
I don't think so, but you may want to dig around a bit on the OCZ Forums to get the latest word. Of course they are MLC based, so anything you do that reduces writes to the drive is good for the overall life of the drive.

There is actually an auto tweaking tool that they support there. LINK

You can have your tweaks done in 30 seconds and 1 reboot.

Hmm, now that I think about it, it is an older laptop she mainly uses and it is almost certainly not SATA. She is SOL.

Don
 
well i was selling my laptop, and truthfully people (on laptops at least) appeal more to large HD space.

I didn't really use my desktop in an everyday basis since a lot of my that stuff I mentioned was accomplished through my laptop. I normally just used my desktop for processor / graphic intensive applications. So i never really felt the difference between my SSD and my velociraptors up until now since I'm using it for everything until I get my HP Mini 1000
 
I agree with Don, go with the RAID 0 two 30gb vertex. Amazing speed. You are on ICH10R so you will be able to handle their speed with no issues! But, if you want to save a few bucks 1 60gb vertex will be more speed than you will ever need, honestly. :p Faster than your velociraptor and much quieter and no heat! :D
 
yeah i think that's what i am going with. Tigerdirect has the drive at 199.99 for me without tax so I might buy two of them. One now, and maybe another when Win7 comes out. That way i won't be particularly irritated i'm reinstalling my OS (for like the 5th time in a year) since I will likely do it anyway even without the addition of another vertex to put into raid
 
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