What's the best SSD for a "Gaming only" rig?

[coolVariable]

Originally posted by: taltamir
rick james just joined, and so far he keeps on telling people (in different threads) to buy these AWESOME (shitty) 64GB ssds (now with rebate)... Is he an undercover marketing guy? either that or he doesn't know crap. Those drives he suggests are pure shit.

And cool variables got it WAY wrong. The correct order in performance is:
Intel SLC > Intel MLC > Velociraptor > Samsung SLC (or rebadged) > Jmicron MLC (pure shit, and the most common SSD).

I think idontcare got it right when he said its crappiness per dollar that he is measuring in...

I didn't list any order in performance.
Learn to read.
And in fact ... you got it wrong. For currently available SSDs the performance is:
Intel SLC > SLC SSDs > Intel MLC > Samsung MLC > Velociraptor > Jmicron MLC (pure shit, and the most common SSD).

Do your research before posting!

 

[Phew]

Originally posted by: taltamir
what are syquest drives?

Haha, I bought a SparQ drive in 1998. At the time it seemed too good to be true; 1 GB removable storage for $40 (this was at a time when hard drives themselves were ~$60/GB). Problem is, these drives worked for a week or so then started clicking and died. The company subsequently went bankrupt. Even though it had far inferior $/GB at the time, Iomega went on to corner the market with their Zip drive (since the Zip drive actually functioned).

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: seemingly random

Originally posted by: taltamir
what are syquest drives?

My point exactly. It can happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology

Heheh ya I remember those. Non-uniform standard and insane media prices really killed that product though. And tape drives for pure backup also hurt those drives. Ultimately they suffered a similar fate to other forms of portable/removable media, you could buy much larger/faster fixed drives or tape media for much cheaper.

 

[taltamir]

wikipedia says that they failed because of high failure rate ruining their rep...

 

[Phew]

Originally posted by: chizow
Non-uniform standard and insane media prices really killed that product though.

Really, it was more the drives killing themselves that killed the product (and subsequently the company). At the time, the SparQ drive had a very good $/GB ratio compared to other removable media.

 

[PICBoy]

Thanks everyone. So I was wondering: 2 WD360 in RAID 0 is a good idea in my case?