Chunky_Chimp

It's advised that nobody defrag an SSD. Read up here for more information, the rest of the article is extremely well-done despite its age.

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standard hard drives need to be defragged as it is quicker for the head to read the file as one continuous read instead of reading abit then going to another part of the drive and reading some more but on a SSD this is not a problem and defragging a SSD will kill it faster

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cbr600

this is the two I'm looking at as I want to pick it up tomorrow and this is whats local.

SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220390

Raptor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136296

Thanks for any input.

ErBall

I had a Gskill Falcon 128gb SSD drive in my laptop I just sold. I switched to a desktop with 3x 640gb Caviar Blacks in Raid-0 short stroked to 1tb, and honestly, these are faster than the Falcon was. They are obviously more prone to failure and such, but in a desktop environment, they are damn fast and cost less than the SSD. Its also nice to know that I have a terabyte of fast storage for nearly any needs I have.

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ritchwell

I agree with you in most of your comment but short stroke raid of black caviar vs SSD in terms of faster is mostly true. If you do benches, yes the black caviar short stroke will beat the falcons in read/write due to the caviar being in raid configuration compared to single SSD( 200+read/150+write). You can raid so many HHD and will never reach the access time of a single SSD (0.1-0.2), even your short stroked probably brought your random access time to Velociraptor speed of 7ms or lower. What im trying to explain is that in every day use, you will notice the access time speedy reaction on a SSD due to no mechanical part looking for the application you are trying to open up.
For the OP, you really have to think whats best for you if you want performance and do not care about storage and price yes go with SSD. Most members usually use SSD for OS and have a storage drive to back up. If price and storage is important get a HDD and raid them or even short stroke the drives its much cheaper (i would definately get black caviar over velociraptors due to more bang for the buck).

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ritchwell

@cbr600 just looked at your sig, i have notice you have nvidia chipset. Just to let you know that the nvidia chipset is not the best compared to the intel chipset for performance of raiding drives. You will wonder why its much slower and some members wind up buying a dedicated raid controller to boost there performance.

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cbr600

I have a ATI AMD chipset are they bad for raiding on. Im kinda thinking of just getting the SSD I linked. I have the money from selling some computer stuff I did not use so its kinda like its not my normal spending money so I think I will just get the SSD.

ritchwell

My bad i just glance at the 790, thinking nvidia chip. I remember a member who sold his SSD a while back having issues with performance, not sure what it was but remember him stating it does not work well with amd setup.

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mdogg

yo cbr have you checked out this article from anandtech?
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

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SSD definatly the new Vertex 1.30 firmware with the built in garbage collector is definatly nice. They run circles around my Velociraptors in most cases.

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