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10K Drive, or SSD?

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alhava

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I've heard a lot of conflicting opinions about SSD drives from coworkers, so I want to check in with the community to learn your opinions.

Are SSD drives as reliable and fast as their plattered counterparts? Are there serious drawbacks?

I'm building a new PC for my wife, and as her OS drive, I'm deciding between 10K raptor drive and an SSD.

The size isn't a big deal, we'll be installing steam on a larger, slower drive anyway.
 
I had a 10k Raptor and replaced it with an SSD.

So mark one vote down for the SSD.
 
SSD.

(but not from OCZ. I own 2 and had to RMA both)
 
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If you are using it in a desktop/home environment, a consumer SSD all the way. If you are in an enterprise environment with a write-heavy workflow, an SLC SSD would be my primary choice or 15K SAS depending on $$$$ and storage needs.
 
soupcxan said:
Who is telling you that SSDs are not good? Mark them down as an idiot.
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Depends on the user's needs.
For storage price per GB, no, they aren't that good.

For high-performance OS and data cache drives, they are awesome.
 
10K disk are prefered when IOPS is secondary and in some RAID setups. Otherwise SSD are a must!

But remember: disks AND SSD's can fail.

My gf uses a ssd and I use a RAID 1. Guess what... I am jealous of her setup... ;)
 
mwroobel said:
If you are using it in a desktop/home environment, a consumer SSD all the way. If you are in an enterprise environment with a write-heavy workflow, an SLC SSD would be my primary choice or 15K SAS depending on $$$$ and storage needs.
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agree
s0rce said:
100% SSD, 10k drives are slower, noisier and expensive.
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agree
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I quoted from Extra slow data transfer rates

I have Asus Rampage IV Extreme & 3930k @4G7 Bclk 133.6 ,with , 3 WD1002FAEX , 2 OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIops 240Gb (last Firm) and is worst mobo for HD/SSD / RAM bandwith , I tired of trying a lot of ahci drivers .
And too in RAID0 ports , and with IBM1015 @LSI9211 IR mode. WORST MOBO EVER I have :mad::mad::mad:
Asrock Fatal1ty z68 @2700k destroy them in HD/SSD / RAM bandwith .
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Take care about mobo for your use.
 
idont said:
10K disk are prefered when IOPS is secondary and in some RAID setups. Otherwise SSD are a must!

But remember: disks AND SSD's can fail.

My gf uses a ssd and I use a RAID 1. Guess what... I am jealous of her setup... ;)
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Well yeah Raid 1 is mirroring. You want speed use Raid 0 ;)

FYI I have 2 gaming systems each with SSD's in Raid 0.

Mushkin SSDs in Raid 0 give me 1GB speeds
OCZ SSDs in Raid 0 are slightly faster on smaller files but slower on larger files.
 
idont said:
10K disk are prefered when IOPS is secondary and in some RAID setups. Otherwise SSD are a must!

But remember: disks AND SSD's can fail.

My gf uses a ssd and I use a RAID 1. Guess what... I am jealous of her setup... ;)
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You can always RAID1 some SSDs.
Also, if you are doing mission-critical tasks on your system, I personally would much rather have RAID1 HDDs than a single SSD.

If you don't need redundancy though, then why aren't you using RAID0? :confused:
 
Raid 1 can really give you some awesome read performance (on par with Raid 0, right?). Either way, with my own setup I enjoy Raid 1 for storage and SSD for everything else. But even for storage, things are pretty perky transfer-rate-wise for me.
 
colinstu said:
Raid 1 can really give you some awesome read performance (on par with Raid 0, right?). Either way, with my own setup I enjoy Raid 1 for storage and SSD for everything else. But even for storage, things are pretty perky transfer-rate-wise for me.
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Only FakeRAID, hardware RAID, and one of the GMirror options allow for a read-speed bonus, just fyi.
 
Definitely go with the SSD. A 256 GB would even fit quite a few games on there. 128 GB is enough if you manage space wisely. It's all I have right now and I can keep the games I'm actively playing on it although I don't have a bloated office suite installed on that box.
 
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