Solid State drive or 10K HDD?

im planning on getting a new fast harddrive to put my OS on for faster boot times and which do you think is a better bang for the buck and will work much faster?

a 10k HDD with more space?

or a SSD with less space?

I wouldn't recommend buying an SSD YET.

They're still to expensive imo; you should buy a 7200 RPM drive unless you can afford the 300GB VelociRaptor (the 150GB is slower than 7200 RPM drives).

I wouldn't recommend buying an SSD YET.

They're still to expensive imo; you should buy a 7200 RPM drive unless you can afford the 300GB VelociRaptor (the 150GB is slower than 7200 RPM drives).

smc91352

[QUOTE="smc91352"]

I wouldn't recommend buying an SSD YET.

They're still to expensive imo; you should buy a 7200 RPM drive unless you can afford the 300GB VelociRaptor (the 150GB is slower than 7200 RPM drives).

blazinpuertoroc

Which 7200RPM HDD?

I get crappy boot times on the 7200RPM IDE HDD in one of my older rigs, that doesn't mean that all 7200RPM drives perform terribly.

[QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]

[QUOTE="smc91352"]

I wouldn't recommend buying an SSD YET.

They're still to expensive imo; you should buy a 7200 RPM drive unless you can afford the 300GB VelociRaptor (the 150GB is slower than 7200 RPM drives).

MaoTheChimp

Which 7200RPM HDD?

I get crappy boot times on the 7200RPM IDE HDD in one of my older rigs, that doesn't mean that all 7200RPM drives perform terribly.

10,000 RPM hard drives don't seem to be worth it in comparison to high-end 7,200 RPM ones. I say that because for the cost of a VelociRaptor, you could probably afford a 1 TB or greater Caviar Black or similar drive and get most of the performance while having MUCH greater storage. I don't think SSDs are even close to worth the cost just yet. Sure, they can be fast, but you're paying quite a lot for very little space. (It's not quite as bad there as the volatile DRAM-based drives, though-those are obviously the fastest by far, but price-to-storage is excessively high and you need to keep them powered to retain data.)NamelessPlayer

I heard the Western Digital Black 640GB was one of the better 7,200 HDD's out there so this is a bit of a surprise

I heard the Western Digital Black 640GB was one of the better 7,200 HDD's out there so this is a bit of a surprise

ninjabeaver1

recomendation for the fasted, most reliable 1tb 7,200k HDD on the market? Cause the one i have is crap.

blazinpuertoroc

Kingston just came out with a 40Gig SSD for around $85 w/ mail-in rebate that just might tickle your fancy.....

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1111/1/

Kingston just came out with a 40Gig SSD for around $85 w/ mail-in rebate that just might tickle your fancy.....

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1111/1/

XRED_0

[QUOTE="ninjabeaver1"]

I heard the Western Digital Black 640GB was one of the better 7,200 HDD's out there so this is a bit of a surprise

blazinpuertoroc

I have a 640gb 7,200 rpm, WD 32mb cache and boot times is about 45+ sec.

[QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]

[QUOTE="ninjabeaver1"]

I heard the Western Digital Black 640GB was one of the better 7,200 HDD's out there so this is a bit of a surprise

BOONE123

I have a 640gb 7,200 rpm, WD 32mb cache and boot times is about 45+ sec.

[QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]

recomendation for the fasted, most reliable 1tb 7,200k HDD on the market? Cause the one i have is crap.

NamelessPlayer

[QUOTE="NamelessPlayer"][QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]

recomendation for the fasted, most reliable 1tb 7,200k HDD on the market? Cause the one i have is crap.

polarwrath11

[QUOTE="BOONE123"]

[QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]maybe yours a 32mb cache?

blazinpuertoroc

I have a 640gb 7,200 rpm, WD 32mb cache and boot times is about 45+ sec.

[QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]

[QUOTE="BOONE123"]

I have a 640gb 7,200 rpm, WD 32mb cache and boot times is about 45+ sec.

Makari

if your running vista try making sure that the readyboost service is turned on.. if all your looking for is faster boot times.

Kingston just came out with a 40Gig SSD for around $85 w/ mail-in rebate that just might tickle your fancy.....

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1111/1/

XRED_0

If you want to boot up fast MSCONFIG is your friend!

[QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]

[QUOTE="ninjabeaver1"]

I heard the Western Digital Black 640GB was one of the better 7,200 HDD's out there so this is a bit of a surprise

BOONE123

I have a 640gb 7,200 rpm, WD 32mb cache and boot times is about 45+ sec.

any tips? any certain settings in the bios? any tweaks? or is it that your cache is better?

[QUOTE="BOONE123"]

[QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]maybe yours a 32mb cache?

blazinpuertoroc

I have a 640gb 7,200 rpm, WD 32mb cache and boot times is about 45+ sec.

any tips? any certain settings in the bios? any tweaks? or is it that your cache is better?

[QUOTE="blazinpuertoroc"]

[QUOTE="BOONE123"]

I have a 640gb 7,200 rpm, WD 32mb cache and boot times is about 45+ sec.

Makari

any tips? any certain settings in the bios? any tweaks? or is it that your cache is better?

please spend your money on something else. a 7200rpm hdd is fine. forget 10k. **** ssd.

you can buy a 5870 with that money.