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Post Date: 2010-01-20
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    Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 8:45am
I've been looking at the SSD drives and was curious abought making the right choice.
 
I've read in the forum that intel makes the best drives, and being as im fixing to purchase a PC throu digital storm rather than build one this time was looking for advice.
 
The first question i have is lifespan, Im cautious abought this cause i've gone throu a few thumbdrives in my time, usally 8 months continuous read from a firefly drive or simaler as i read music off the drive throu my car stero.
 
Both being solid state memory i have been scratching my head on info abought falure rate.
 
The other one is bottle-necking, I can understand the significate increase in speed for the drive, im curious if putting SSD drives in a raid 0 would improve the access speeds or would there still be a bus bottleneck or ?
 
Any information is apreciated, keep in mind last time i went over system specs and built a PC, AMD XP processors had just came out Star


Edited by WebDemon - 20 Jan 2010 at 8:50am
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Posts: 5084 		  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 9:35am

The 160 Gb Intel is a great drive, but kinda small for the OS and some games, the 256 Corsair is close in speed, and offers a decent amount of capacity.

Life span is directly connected to drive size, bigger drive, longer life.
RAID 0 will not gain you any speed, except for large files. The OS and games use all small files, so that should clear that issue up.
 
If the price is too steep for that drive I would just get a velociraptor 300Gb for now. Larger, cheaper, faster SSD's are coming, but a couple years out till they get somewhat reasonable.
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Posts: 187 		  Quote eastor Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 23 Jan 2010 at 2:48pm
Justin, I just got my computer back from DS...do you know if getting the firmware update is worth it for the Intel 160GB SSD, I believe I have the 55nm version but not sure what DS supplied since they rebuilt my system from scratch.
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