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post #1 of 4
9/16/08 at 10:58am
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I'm looking at buying a Sager 9262 and I have a few questions about SSDs and I'm hoping that some of you who know a lot more about hardware can help me.

I was thinking about ordering it with no hard drives and getting three of the newer "cheaper" SSDs to put in it. There are a few out there from OCZ, RiData, and others that I could probably get the company I work for to shell out the money for.

So here are my questions...

First, I have heard that small read/writes are actually faster on a traditional hard drive. Is that true?? And if that is the case would it better not to use RAID 0 in the setup?

Second, I do programming in C# and use my laptop locally to develop database apps on SQL Server. Wouldn't that be a lot of small read/writes? In which case an SSD wouldn't be the best solution?

Third, would it be possible to use a hybird solution where I have 1 SSD as the main drive running the OS, my video games, Visual Studio, etc. And then have 2 7200rpm drives in RAID 0 running my DB as a secondary drive? Or does the RAID drive have to be the primary?

Thanks!

JP
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post #2 of 4
9/16/08 at 12:34pm
Yes reads/writes are much faster than traditional hard drives. However, I don't think this would much of an affect your compile time or affect everyday use if that is what you're basing buying the SSDs on. I would just stick to conventional hard drives.
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post #3 of 4
9/18/08 at 10:10am
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Yeah, I'm kind of hearing that those drives aren't ready for primetime yet. They seem to have a stuttering problem.

Thanks for the response!
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post #4 of 4
9/20/08 at 2:42am
If you plan to use SSDs, do your research. Performance varies widely and there are some known stuttering problems which could be an issue. I just posted news about some great rebates OCZ is offering until the end of this month that make the drives pretty affordable but OCZ drives have poor write times so you need to use them primarily for reading data.

I'm not sure what advantages you can get from RAID0 with SSD in a notebook. You may run into other limitations but I really don't know. At least one large conventional platter drive is useful for storing large files.
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