[Kal-EL]

Hey Gang,

I think its time to get with the times and go the way of the SSD. I already have an Areca-1220 raid card with 8 sata slots. So now I need 8 SSD's to fill them.

I wanna go the cheap but fast route so was considering 8 of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820609330

Any input or comments or suggestions are more than welcome.

[DrNip]

8!!! Oh only 16GB. I personally think you would be better off with 2-3 Intel X25-M's. They are the best right now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167005


If not then look into the Vertex's by OCZ. They are a lil cheaper and sell a 30GB unlike Intel lowest being 80GB. Get 5-6 of them.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...tCode=10009849

I've been saying it for awhile and am going SSD this summer or at least on my O/S. I will be goin with one or the other I have listed. Prolly two of the Intel's.

[Buckeye]

Intels are the best

I still like my MTRONs tho <hungs>
But it takes like 2 of my MTRONs to = 1 Intel SSD in bandwidth.

I keep trying to get Francios to alow me to step up my MTRONs to Intels. He laughs at me and says... sorry we do not take inferior SSD's LOL !!!

[Kal-EL]

Reading material: http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-fastest.html

[Buckeye]

Yup, my next toy

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-23.html

[Kal-EL]

I double dog dare u!

[GFDuke]

You know about my SSD;s so i will say this. OCZ drives rock. Yes they are expensive and i have no regrets. Their support forums are awesome. But if i could do it again i would go with these. They are slc drives and are super fast. The 60gb and under are usually mlc drives. I think 2 of these would come very close to my 4 60gb drives. Do you plan on using your onboard RAID? With any luck you have a ICH10 controller onboard.

OCZ 120gb SSD's

[Neuromancer]

Double check the specs on your card, IIRC the areca 1220 basically makes out at 3 or 4 SSDs.

More SSDs will give you more storage space but no more speed.

I will try and find the link.

Click me!

Found it, it is from Dominick32's website.

[DrNip]

The 120GB Vertex's are better than the 30GB I listed.

[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by GFDuke

You know about my SSD;s so i will say this. OCZ drives rock. Yes they are expensive and i have no regrets. Their support forums are awesome. But if i could do it again i would go with these. They are slc drives and are super fast. The 60gb and under are usually mlc drives. I think 2 of these would come very close to my 4 60gb drives. Do you plan on using your onboard RAID? With any luck you have a ICH10 controller onboard.

OCZ 120gb SSD's

Nope to onboard, I have an Areca-1220 8 sata port raid card to use. Which SSD's are u suggesting?