Hero999
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I'm going to upgrade from an old IDE mechanical hard drive for something a bit faster and am torn between tow options: should I buy a single fast 10000rpm Raptor hard drive or a small 30GB solid state drive and a cheap 7200rpm drive?
Western Digital WD1500HLFS 150GB Hard Drive SATAII 10000rpm 16MB Cache - OEM WD VelociRaptor - Ebuyer
OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 30GB Solid State Hard Drive SATAII 64MB Cache - Ebuyer
OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 30GB Solid State Hard Drive SATAII 64MB Cache - Ebuyer
I like the idea of a fast solid state drive but 30GB won't be enough so I'll need a separate mechanical drive for my files and just keep the SSD for the OS.
I know that the price of SSDs will probably fall more than traditional hard drives in the coming years so I could just buy the Raptor and upgrade to an SSD later.
I'm not one for always having the latest hardware but I know that the hard drive is the main speed bottleneck and I'm better off upgrading it than anything else.
I've just got my brother's old motherboard, here's the spec's:
Asus A8N-VM CSM
AMD Athlon 64 Processor running at 2GHz.
1GB RAM - don't know what sort, I've been told it's not very good so will probably get some faster RAM too.
Sapphire Radeon X300SE 256MB RAM
Much better than my old PC but not top of the range I know.
I've just ordered some two 2GB RAM modules off ebay, wish me luck getting XP Home to see them both. It's not a big issue since Linux certainly will or at least it will if I upgrade to 64-bit. For Windows I might get hold of my brother's old 64-bit XP pro CD, if he can find it.
Western Digital WD1500HLFS 150GB Hard Drive SATAII 10000rpm 16MB Cache - OEM WD VelociRaptor - Ebuyer
OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 30GB Solid State Hard Drive SATAII 64MB Cache - Ebuyer
OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 30GB Solid State Hard Drive SATAII 64MB Cache - Ebuyer
I like the idea of a fast solid state drive but 30GB won't be enough so I'll need a separate mechanical drive for my files and just keep the SSD for the OS.
I know that the price of SSDs will probably fall more than traditional hard drives in the coming years so I could just buy the Raptor and upgrade to an SSD later.
I'm not one for always having the latest hardware but I know that the hard drive is the main speed bottleneck and I'm better off upgrading it than anything else.
I've just got my brother's old motherboard, here's the spec's:
Asus A8N-VM CSM
AMD Athlon 64 Processor running at 2GHz.
1GB RAM - don't know what sort, I've been told it's not very good so will probably get some faster RAM too.
Sapphire Radeon X300SE 256MB RAM
Much better than my old PC but not top of the range I know.
I've just ordered some two 2GB RAM modules off ebay, wish me luck getting XP Home to see them both. It's not a big issue since Linux certainly will or at least it will if I upgrade to 64-bit. For Windows I might get hold of my brother's old 64-bit XP pro CD, if he can find it.