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So, i have been an incredibly picky bastard, and made it difficult for my wife to find me an anniversary gift. However, i think i have an idea, but am stuck between two options, and would like to get some feedback.
On my main desktop/server, i do alot of mixed work, including file serving, gaming, and photo editing. The computer runs Win 7 Pro, and my software lineup looks like this:
Photoshop CS5
Lightroom 3
World of Warcraft
Battlefield : Bad Company 2
MS Office
(One or two others i may have missed)
My photos are on a RAID-ed set of Hitatchi 1TB drives, and other things like My Docs and swap file would be moved off the SSD as well.
So, what it comes down to, is what drive configuration makes the most sense. What i am looking at is either one drive:
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SKUSearch...iteria=SA21000
Or two of these in raid 0:
http://www.frys.com/product/6366151
The sandforce seems to perform much better than Indilinx in writes, but given that once things are installed, it will be a heavily read-only drive. I don't have a huge budget ($120-130 once all said and done).. so what would you all say is the better option?
On my main desktop/server, i do alot of mixed work, including file serving, gaming, and photo editing. The computer runs Win 7 Pro, and my software lineup looks like this:
Photoshop CS5
Lightroom 3
World of Warcraft
Battlefield : Bad Company 2
MS Office
(One or two others i may have missed)
My photos are on a RAID-ed set of Hitatchi 1TB drives, and other things like My Docs and swap file would be moved off the SSD as well.
So, what it comes down to, is what drive configuration makes the most sense. What i am looking at is either one drive:
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SKUSearch...iteria=SA21000
Or two of these in raid 0:
http://www.frys.com/product/6366151
The sandforce seems to perform much better than Indilinx in writes, but given that once things are installed, it will be a heavily read-only drive. I don't have a huge budget ($120-130 once all said and done).. so what would you all say is the better option?