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Hack&Lube · 03-05-2010, 12:13 PM

An SSD is not something I would recommend a budget build (he's building a gaming computer for $700 total!) or even a mainstream user.

There is really no advantage for the everyday computer user with current SSD technology and limited capacities. SSD optimizing and tuning also requires a bit of homework and advanced knowledge.

SSDs are really not worth it at this time when a Western Digital Black Edition drive is blazing fast enough for even most gamers. For the price of a single SSD, you can get two WD Drives in Raid 0 with about 20 times the capacity. True, you won't get the 200+MB/sec read but you will get close (100-140MB/sec) and way more under budget with more capacity.

http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Is...5M--X18M-SSDs/
Talks a bit about the fragmentation issue and firmware Intel issues to minimalize this.

I almost bought an SDD last night but I know from history repeating itself that memory only gets better and cheaper for those who wait and right now, SSD technology is still in it's relative infancy and the price to performance/capacity ratio is not really worth it.

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RW99, instead of the Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive, I would pick this:
http://www.directcanada.com/products...20Digital%20WD

I have both the Seagate and WD Black drive in my system. The WD Black drive destroys the Seagate, over 80MB/sec faster in Burst Speed

03-05-2010, 12:13 PM	#24
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	An SSD is not something I would recommend a budget build (he's building a gaming computer for $700 total!) or even a mainstream user. There is really no advantage for the everyday computer user with current SSD technology and limited capacities. SSD optimizing and tuning also requires a bit of homework and advanced knowledge. SSDs are really not worth it at this time when a Western Digital Black Edition drive is blazing fast enough for even most gamers. For the price of a single SSD, you can get two WD Drives in Raid 0 with about 20 times the capacity. True, you won't get the 200+MB/sec read but you will get close (100-140MB/sec) and way more under budget with more capacity. http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Is...5M--X18M-SSDs/ Talks a bit about the fragmentation issue and firmware Intel issues to minimalize this. I almost bought an SDD last night but I know from history repeating itself that memory only gets better and cheaper for those who wait and right now, SSD technology is still in it's relative infancy and the price to performance/capacity ratio is not really worth it. *** RW99, instead of the Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive, I would pick this: http://www.directcanada.com/products...20Digital%20WD I have both the Seagate and WD Black drive in my system. The WD Black drive destroys the Seagate, over 80MB/sec faster in Burst Speed Last edited by Hack&Lube; 03-05-2010 at 12:32 PM.