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So I have a question and it might be stupid but my friend swears on it…is it really worth it to get a SSD just for win 7? I mean I already have a hd just for win 7 but does it really need to be a SSD?
Most SSDs are slower than high-end 7200rpm SATAs.
You have to get a really expensive one to get a performance increase. Typically for the same price you could get 5-7 WD Black 1TB drives. If you stripped them your performance would still be higher on the standard drives than the SSDs so it’s really just a waste of money.
The failure rate on the expensive SSDs is pretty high too and once that data’s gone it’s gone forever. Not the “well you can pay out the *edited* to recover it” kind of gone but like really gone.
MasterP said:
Most SSDs are slower than high-end 7200rpm SATAs.
You have to get a really expensive one to get a performance increase. Typically for the same price you could get 5-7 WD Black 1TB drives. If you stripped them your performance would still be higher on the standard drives than the SSDs so it’s really just a waste of money.
The failure rate on the expensive SSDs is pretty high too and once that data’s gone it’s gone forever. Not the “well you can pay out the *edited* to recover it” kind of gone but like really gone.
there are a lot of errors in that statement, and I would never stripe 5-7 drives as you are just asking for a failure, and highend SSDs are still going to be way faster in most cases, but the fact still remains that unless you are going to spend ~$500+ for a 128gb SSD, you really aren’t going to get enough of a performance improvement over a traditional hard drive to justify the price.
Citan001 said:
ok so then my next question. Im running out of space so looking to get a new hd. Any suggestions?
Get a large WD Black. Like 2 TB.
Nickname said:
there are a lot of errors in that statement, and I would never stripe 5-7 drives as you are just asking for a failure, and highend SSDs are still going to be way faster in most cases, but the fact still remains that unless you are going to spend ~$500+ for a 128gb SSD, you really aren’t going to get enough of a performance improvement over a traditional hard drive to justify the price.
Every SSD I’ve ever seen in a computer could easily be beat by my old 20GB Maxtor PATA drive. Regardless, the max theoretical speed for the SATA2 bus that SSDs run on is 375MB/sec which is, under perfect conditions, around 3x faster. Not as fast as everyone implies…
So im to lazy again to look for this article but um i think it was in maximum pc they were saying something about TB drives being to big…it might have been that its the 3 TB models that cause issues because of some bit issues or something of that nature. Any clarification would be nice plz.
Citan001 said:
So im to lazy again to look for this article but um i think it was in maximum pc they were saying something about TB drives being to big…it might have been that its the 3 TB models that cause issues because of some bit issues or something of that nature. Any clarification would be nice plz.
Every time they release a bigger drive they say that and every time they’re proven wrong about it. I remember them talking about this when they first released 500GB drives. That was it, they would get no larger. The platters couldn’t hold any more. Same as with global warming, the “experts” are proven wrong time and again but for some reason the media keeps publishing them and the public keeps listening.
There is no 3TB model and won’t be until they get the platter capacities higher. Current technology will only allow for 500GB/platter and manufacturers use a maximum of 4 platters per drive due to heat, weight, power, and wear/tear issues. We’ll need a 50% increase in platter capacity before you’ll see a 3TB drive. Next year, definately probable, this year, no. At most this year we’ll get a 2.5TB drive using 640GB platters.
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