Should I go SSD ? - help needed

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Limp Gawd
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I will have in my new rig a RAID-0 of Western Digital 300Gb 10K RPM SATA II VelociRaptor
Now
I was thinking of adding an SSD 128GB of OCZ for the OS drive
What do you say?
Is the preformance worth it? will I get a major speed boost compare to Raid of VelociRaptor ?
And what do you think of SSD any way ?
 
I say go for it. SSD is the next big thing and it's numbers are pretty solid. Why not add two smaller SSDs?
 
Depends on what Southbridge/Controller you're going to get. I have 2 OCZ SSD Core 64GB drives and I am unable to create a RAID 0 array. It fails on creating the array-

Also, with the single drive, I get file corruption issues. I am still working on this issue and hope to resolve it. However, if you have, or are getting an Intel ICHxR controller on your mobo, then I'd advise against it right now. Not saying nobody has gotten it to work, but I know myself and 2 other people are having an issue right now.
 
Griff are you using ahci? or are the drives in IDE mode?
 
I've used the drives in both IDE and AHCI. RAID 0 does not work. Those are the three options I have on my Mobo. AHCI does not work either, as is known from OCZ.

If you look at my thread on the issue you'll see the current status. Don't mean to steal this thread-

All I know, is that my OCZ SSD as well as a few others are experiencing issues with having the SSD in IDE mode as their OS drive. Both XP and Vista. OCZ is looking into it though-

Back to OP..
 
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