2 ssd or 1 hdd
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dugdiamond
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according to your links
the HDD is $100
and the SSDs are $199 each
so, you could get 4x HDD in RAID0 for the equivalent of the two SSDs
more storage + speed = win
GiftedReflex
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I would have to agree, although, the one question I would have is which one would have the greater speed, 2 SSD in Raid0 or 4HDD in Raid0. Seems to me that they would probably be pretty close to the same depending on the drives.
chewbarney
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what about one of each the ssd for os and games mostly and the hdd for everything else
GiftedReflex
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My guess would be that he meant 1SSD or 2HDD, simply because the SSD costs as much as 2HDD he cited. In that case, I would say the one SSd, even though it is a smaller capacity, it runs much faster being one of the fastest SSDs on the market. Even 2 HDD in Raid0 won't really keep up with the one Samsung 830.
If it's speed you are looking for, then the SSD's, but only if you have... like... a big budget. HDD's are best used for storage and RAID configs are risky cause you may loose data if only one drive fails. But yeah, at that price you could get 4 hard disk drives and set up in RAID 0, I don't think you would complain about speed ( even if it does not match a SSD ) and you have alot more storage space.
GiftedReflex
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agreed, seems a though the guy who started the thread has gotten something confused. Spend $100 for a larger capacity HDD but slower drive or spend $400 for two significantly faster that when put into a Raid0, will have 1/4 the storage of the HDD for 4x the price. I'm still confused by this guy's logic.
altereDad
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I think he had it better with the first SSD and second HDD. I doubt (by the read of things) setting up RAID was the intention. I believe the idea was SSD x2 vs HDD x1. Content and space but lack of speed for two speedy SSDs but less space. Attributing 1 of each is more logical as it were anyway, to start off.
