do you afk test it during the nights?!

Pro here. Wassapening?

Well, solid state has super fast access speed, but the biggest one is still pretty tiny compared to a traditional drive. They also have a limited life (10K writes?). 10K rpm drives are somewhat notorious for burning themselves out prematurely. What's wrong with a regular 7400 rpm?

This post was edited by garrettthegreat on Apr 28 2009 06:38pm

SSDs are awesome, but wayyy more expensive per gigabyte than HDs. Unless it's for a laptop or something that needs to be super quiet, use a regular hard drive.

For most things, 7400 should be fine.

Edit: I think you mean 7200

This post was edited by drt1245 on Apr 28 2009 06:43pm

yeah, 7400, 7200, w/e

7400 is an ugly number.

7200 isn't

ah, preferential treatment to the number 7200 i see. what did 7400 do that was so wrong that he need be bashed into submission in a public forum

SSD is still dropping in price... memory is getting cheaper and cheaper
no moving parts so suppose "not to break"as often as a HHD

A 10K like Velociraptor is nice. Still limited in size... it's a 2.5" surrounded by heatsink in a 3.5" body.

Another way to get speed is with stripping RAID or RAID 0.






This post was edited by Zogg on Apr 28 2009 06:58pm

7200 has better factors, of course.