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[F1 9LFG]

Morning all,

Got a question I want to put out there.

For those who have noticed on other threads I'm having a PC built to spec.

At the moment I'm having x2 500Gb HDD's in RAID 0 config.


Question is would having a 96Gb SSD drive for O/S and Apps, and the 1TB of HDD for storage make any difference, if so how much and in what areas?

Thanks

Rob

[Plomien]

the SSD runs faster so if you are a gamer then installing the games and system to there would be good, use the other drives as storage and not so frequently accessed programs

[cem_devecioglu]

ssd's are faster in most respects, despite the drawback claims.. however a raid configuration, may close the gap in some sequential/random large number of small block reads..(because ssd bios software is optimized for bigger blocks).. not seen a conventional raid vs ssd speed comparison yet.. but obviously comparing them with single conventional disk in overall is nonsense because of latency..
 
 

[Kevin Wood]

Don't forget that the HDDs will have a chunk of cache, and the OS will also cache in RAM so a lot of the data that you're proposing to put in the SSD will not be repeatedly loaded from HDD.

Taking that into account, Yes, in some specific applications it might be a useful step to take, but for a general purpose machine I doubt it'd be worth the hassle.

[cem_devecioglu]

Don't forget that the HDDs will have a chunk of cache, and the OS will also cache in RAM so a lot of the data that you're proposing to put in the SSD will not be repeatedly loaded from HDD.

Taking that into account, Yes, in some specific applications it might be a useful step to take, but for a general purpose machine I doubt it'd be worth the hassle.

Kevin, right now in front of me an ssd lappy and a pc with 7200 rpm..

even it differs when you open OOF on firefox or IE..

[aaronjb]

I have an SSD in each of my machines now - I wouldn't go back to a plattered disk for the OS & apps if you paid me (Well, ok, maybe if you paid me enough ). These are only SATAII, too, I can imagine in a SATAIII desktop they'd make an even bigger difference.

Just be sure to buy a good SSD, there's a world of difference between the good (OCZ Vertex, Corsair etc) and the bad.

[F1 9LFG]

I have an SSD in each of my machines now - I wouldn't go back to a plattered disk for the OS & apps if you paid me (Well, ok, maybe if you paid me enough ). These are only SATAII, too, I can imagine in a SATAIII desktop they'd make an even bigger difference.

Just be sure to buy a good SSD, there's a world of difference between the good (OCZ Vertex, Corsair etc) and the bad.

Is that using purely SSD or both SSD and HDD?

Is it an easy upgrade that I could do later?

cheers

[aaronjb]

In this machine (the laptop) I have the SSD for OS + apps and then a data drive for all the other random guff associated with work; I do with the SSD was big enough to fit my VM images on though - reading 4Gb of memory image from SSD to un-suspend is a lot faster than from a plattered disk!

Not sure I'd class it as an 'easy' upgrade - but it's possible to add an SSD later then image the OS drive onto it assuming the drive or partition sizes all line up (with something like CloneZilla, which is free).

(In the machine upstairs - desktop - I just have a 120Gb SSD and all data is on the 12TB NAS, the HTPC just has a little 40Gb SSD in it. All are OCZ Vertex 2 drives)