I7 990x on Rampage 3 extreme

[Ralm]

Samsung SSDs arent overpriced. They are high performance and since Samsung does it all, the prices stick to the same as the general market and in some situations cheaper.

I just think that going for a 512GB ssd is mad lool.

2 things: You dont need that huge space and the price just sky rockets.

Get a 240GB one, use 1 of your blacks for big aplications/games that dont require HDD speed or dont take advantage of it and you will be fine.

My set up at the moment is:
OS + Any edition program (adobe, Autodesk) = OCZ Vertex 3 120GB MI;
Big games, Not important Aplications, temp storage, caches, downloads, etc = WD Black 1TB Sata 3;
Storage and other stuff = Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB (this is the most beastly 7200RPM Hdd I ever got my hands on, so fast);

So as you see, unless you really require some huge apps to be on a super fast HDD, you dont need a massive one.

And if you play mostly Online games, there are a few that really take advantage of SSDs. Some examples are: GW2 more a less. League of Leagends: SSD or HDD (WD black) is the same load time lol.

 

[Undertoker]

I've always thought SSD were expensive and as a result built the rest of my system
I guess. But now Ive got most of what I need I looked again at the price of them (first time for probably a year) and was surprised how cheap they are.

Why would I bother with a 256GB and make do when the 512GB are twice the size and so cheap ?
By the time I've got my OS on , numerous programs and the half dozen games I play on a drive and also my downloads folder with films and music for playing over my network I've never known a hardrive I haven't filled up yet.
Especially when I add the 30 GB of videos and pics of my lad I have to backup for a safe copy as well.
I have lost a couple of hard drives in the past usually to mechanical failure and as a result all the data on them, i assume the SSD are a lot more reliable so I got a fair bit of data to put on one

An SSD is ultimately not a nessecity, I guess that why I've made do without one for so long. But when I do buy one I'll get the biggest and best one there is.

 

[Ralm]

Lol so cheap?

But that is the point, you have more HDD, for movies, downloads, etc, you use the other ones which are 1TB each.

 

[tinytomlogan]

SSD should be for OS and main programs - everything else like games gets installed on to the storage drive.

SSD is the single biggest noticable upgrade youll ever do when switching from a mechanical.

 

[Ralm]

YES, the Guvnor is backing me up =) I just won my day XD

 

[Undertoker]

Sadly
I'll be defying you all and getting the 512GB

 

[Ralm]

If you really want to go extreme then, get 2 256Gbs and Raid 0 xD Although the Sata controler problably wont have enought bandwitch XD

 

[tinytomlogan]

512GB is cool if you can afford it. Ive got 2x 480's and thats still not enough, thats why Ive got a server. Ethernet is faster than most mechanicals 120MB/s is fast enough to rape most drives out there yet its still silent and doesnt clutter up my rig

 

[Ralm]

Well, I have a 120Gb and for storage I just love the Seagate latest Barracuda xD With his at least 150MBs sustained writes xD And he did once 180, comming from the SSD. Although Seagate claims a Sustained Data Rate OD 220MBs its still very fast for a single drive.

 

[Undertoker]

tbh i want an ssd as much for the security of the data as much as the speed.
i was gutted when i lost a lot of videos and photos off a mechanical h drive, im hoping that with an ssd thats far more unlikely to happen

and tbh from what Ive seen there isn't much noticeable difference in speed between the top few ssd drives out at the moment, that id ever notice using them.
i have heard they are a decent upgrade though over a normal hard drive and im looking forward to putting one in.

 

[Ralm]

Well, security, I beleive that SSDs can fail as any HDD can. But HDDs have more lifespan.
The difference is the Shock resistance, SSD you can hit it and will never have issues.

I dont think you are ever safe until you do a Raid1 or Raid5 setup, but it can be a bit expensive to buy multiple HDD and get half the size you should.

What I mean with that is (I will talk of 1TB drives in this basic example):

Imagine you do Raid 1, you need 2 drives and you only get 1TB of space from the 2 drives as space to be used. Basically the drives clone each other, 1 can fail.

On raid 5 is a calculated process where the controller spreads blocks of data by the drives available and always have a redundancy block. So imagine you have 3 drives, from 3TB, only 2TB would be used for storage. This being said, in raid 5, if you have 3,4 or 5 drives, 1 can fail and you replace it and it will rebuild it self.

This is the problem with raid, you need multiple drives, and can get a bit expensive. But looking on what you consider cheap that doesnt seem like an issue XD