SSD or VelociRaptor?

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alg7_munif

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I'm looking at:

Transcend 128GB SSD for 250 Eur
OCZ Core Series 128GB for 350 Eur
VelociRaptor 300GB for 210Eur

Which would be the best buy? Thanks.
 
I have a single velociraptor and it works great for me and I think anyone having used this drive will tell you the same.

I would personally go with the velociraptor just for the fact that it's 300GB and is still likely plenty fast for your needs.
 
The current controllers used in the likes of Core and such are fail with only 16KB of cache. They will freeze the whole OS if you do too many random writes. If you want to go SSD either go with intel or wait for the ioDrive.
 
wait for SSD to mature a little more...go with a vRaptor
 
I dig my new vRaptor. I concur with what everyone else is saying: wait for SSD's to develop and drop in price.
 
I fifth the raptor- or maybe a couple Cheetah drives like I have. I did the SSD Raid thing, didn't work out so well-
 
I bit the bullet with the Transcend SSD since I already have a 1TB Samsung HDD and a 250GB WD HDD. Both of them are already pretty loud together and I guess that adding the vRaptor would add more noise to my system especially when it is spinning at 10k rpm. Btw thanks for the suggestions.
 
I concur with the guys. If you need a hard drive now that is fast....go for the vRaptor. For SSD i would wait till storage gets bigger and there have been some compatilibity issues on some systems. Plus SSD's are expensive per gb. Go for vRaptor....thinking bout jumping on the same boat :D
 
hahahaha....Well I guess we'll see when you post back the results..

makes me laugh that the OP got every single person here to suggest a raptor and went with SSD instead. So much for asking then taking advice. :)

I truly hope it does work for you...The concept is cool!
 
Griff805 said:
I fifth the raptor- or maybe a couple Cheetah drives like I have. I did the SSD Raid thing, didn't work out so well-
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Yea if you willing to spend some money go for SAS drives 15k they are kick ass
I love mine
 
For anyone else deciding- get a vraptor now- and wait for the solid state raptor in the not too distant future.
 
Get 4 Veliciraptors and a good RAID card........ :)

As far as noise levels, I can't hear my Raptors over my normal case fans - and my case fans are very quiet - All Noctua 120mm.
 
Not to highjack the thread, but I'm at a similar cross roads. Cavair Black 1TB or VR. I've been reading up on the stuff and I'm looking at the VR. Of course the VR is much quicker, but is this the case in most real world apps? Space isn't a concern considering I do have a 2nd storage unit; thoughts?
 
Master Blaster said:
Not to highjack the thread, but I'm at a similar cross roads. Cavair Black 1TB or VR. I've been reading up on the stuff and I'm looking at the VR. Of course the VR is much quicker, but is this the case in most real world apps? Space isn't a concern considering I do have a 2nd storage unit; thoughts?
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Is this for your OS? Data?

I wouldn't have my OS/Office etc. on anything but a VR. And prefer RAIDed VR's. Everything else can sit on a Black or similar. The VR's low access times DO change the overall responsiveness (in a good way.)
 
Brahmzy said:
Is this for your OS? Data?

I wouldn't have my OS/Office etc. on anything but a VR. And prefer RAIDed VR's. Everything else can sit on a Black or similar. The VR's low access times DO change the overall responsiveness (in a good way.)
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It would be primarly for OS/Games/Chop/etc. Thanks for the input!
 
Got my disk today but haven't got any time to play with it yet. The case is plastic and it feels quite cheap to the touch, it is really light though.
 
I hope you enjoy the drive.

I'll just chime in and say that I am very happy with my 300gb VR. Just because it spins at 10,000 RPM does not make it loud though. It is quieter than my 500gb 7200rpm Seagate drive (both in rotational noise and seek/access sounds).

Can't beat the pure silence of the SSD though, I hope you enjoy.
 
I suppose SSD will have to do since you follow advice. lol

Anyway, 15K drives would do the best, but I have a raptor and love it...the VR has to be just as good. one of my more reliable drives!
 
I've finished moving my boot partition to the SSD and my boot time improves from ~1m35s to ~1m10s. So far so good.
 
Yea thats a pretty good improvement.....most of my boot time is due to hardware initialization which wont be improved by SSD
 
Lol, did you mean improving your SAS cheetah drives? My cheap SSD would be a step backward compared to the SAS drives.

Anyway my 1TB Samsung is pretty fast compared to my 250GB WD so I'm glad that I still can get some improvement from the SSD.

Edit: I also noticed that my system is now significantly quieter since there is less drive seek with the SSD. Most of my programs now loads from the SSD.
 
Intel SLC > Intel MLC > Other SLC > VelociRaptor > JMicron MLC
 
I got my 300GB Velociraptor yesterday to replace the SSD. The SSD is really fast for reading but for writing it is very slow and sometimes I can't do anything else while installing a large program, the computer would stop being responsive. Installing a large program would also take a very long time, much longer than installing it to my 1TB Samsung drive.

I really like the faster boot and load speed from the SSD so I refuse to go back to anything slower than that, that's why I ordered the Velociraptor. With the Velociraptor, I don't notice much difference in the read speed but the write speed is much much faster than the SSD. What I do notice is the annoying disk seek sound from the Velociraptor, it is much louder than my 1TB Samsung, the sound is like an old laptop harddrive.

What I also like about the SSD is the total silent operation but I guess that I could still live with the Velociraptor. I didn't return the SSD because I think that it would be the perfect drive for my Carputer project. It is fast for reading and it doesn't have any mechanical parts that can be damaged in a car. I won't be installing much program on my Carputer so the slow write speed won't matter much there.
 
Another Velociraptor vote. The SSD's are getting better but they aren't yet where they need to be.
 
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