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Question about Hard Drives and SSD

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amaunator

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I am getting closer to finalizing my new build thanks to alot of input on here. My plan is a WD Raptor for the OS and Application drive and a 320 or higher Seagate. What I am struggling with is these new SSD drives. Are they much faster than the Raptor? Can your OS, XP or Vista, fit on them? I doubt I'll need to use it as a swap file since I am getting 2gb of ram, but does it make sense to use it for that?

Thanks in advance
 
Way too early to use them currently unless you're a billionaire. They aren't very mature technology, hard to find, and incredibly expensive.

Pass on them for now until maybe a year when they're affordable.
 
Originally posted by: Kirby64
Way too early to use them currently unless you're a billionaire. They aren't very mature technology, hard to find, and incredibly expensive.

Pass on them for now until maybe a year when they're affordable.
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:thumbsup: for the most part.

Currently, SSD don't make much sense in a (home) desktop.

In a laptop, however, they do offer some very good benefits, and you don't necessarily have to be a billionaire to afford one of the smaller ones.

For your purposes though, don't bother with SSD right now. They are fast, yes, but not any faster than a Raptor or two 7200rpm drives in a RAID 0 array.
 
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