What is the fastest HD combination

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What is the fastest HD combination

#1 Post by MTWIZARD » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:31 pm

Is the RAID 0 with two 200GB 7200 RPM
or two 64GB SSD (not much storage) maybe use 200GB in the Bay
or a mix of one 64GB SSD and one 200GB for speed with some storage.

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#2 Post by awolfe63 » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:37 pm

Raid 0 with 2 7200RPM drives and Raid 0 with 2 SSDs will comparably fast for large files. For many small files (like bootup) the SSD will be faster. A hybrid RAID 0 (if it will work) is asking for trouble. Using the SSD for system files and a hard drive for data files would probably work pretty well.
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#3 Post by MTWIZARD » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:41 pm

RAID 0 with SSD not avaliable with W700, don't know why.
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#4 Post by awolfe63 » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:50 pm

That's probably right. If you select 2 64GB SSDs then pick RAID - it leaves those disks in the pricing - but it seems confused and asks you to select hard drives as well.
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#5 Post by Rochefort » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:05 am

MTWIZARD wrote:RAID 0 with SSD not avaliable with W700, don't know why.
Are you sure !?
I was planning 2 Intel SSD 25E ! How sad ! :(
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