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New boot drive. Raptor?

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ARosch

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My SSD crashed early this week and I am in the market for a new boot drive. I really like the speed of the SSD but I tend to put my computer to sleep a lot and SSDs don't like to sleep. So I am looking for other alternatives to boot from. Is a WD Velociraptor worth the money for 10k rpm or is it best to just grab a 7200rpm HDD. I don't need much storage 75gb is sufficient because I have a media drive.
 
Yours has no issues with sleep? Interesting.. I guess I will look into that.

@Rifter

Edit: Mine was a Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD.
 
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Even if SSD's did have an issue with sleep, I'd stop using sleep before reverting back to a mechanical drive for only 75GB worth of space.
 
SSDs have an issue with sleep?

ARosch said:
Edit: Mine was a Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD.
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I have a Force 3 240GB in my laptop, and it sleeps fine.

Did you not upgrade the firmware lately? Early Sandforce firmware versions did have sleep issues, but that was basically resolved like a year ago.
 
The performance and power savings of an SSD completely negate any "sleep" benefits you would have with an older mechanical hard drive.

Just put the system in "Always On" power mode while you are using it and shut it off when you are done.
 
Get another SSD. If your space requirement is that low, never settle for a mechanical.

Crucial M4, Intel, Samsung
 
SSD's have sleep issues? i've owned 4 different ones and never even heard of such. Only Sleep issues i ever had was due to the mouse, had to disable it's ability to wake the computer, so either a ghost was moving it or it just triggers on it's own without moving.
 
ARosch said:
...and SSDs don't like to sleep...
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LOL.

$100 question:

What will fail sooner when repeatedly turned off/on - HDD/SSD?



You really have this wrong, really. Your new strategy will bring lots of grief in a long run.
 
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