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SSD, Raptor or SAS? (Read 696 times)

Feb 23^rd, 2009 at 7:10pm

RIC_BARKER Offline
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Ok, I'm building a new system:

The OS will be on a standard WD 7200RPM 32MB buffer drive, for FSX, I'm looking at this as an option. http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SAM-SSD64M. I could do two of these in raid0.

Would this be ok for FSX? Hardware raid, is there much of an overhead on the processor for that?

My other options are:

Single 150GB Raptor
A SAS system (double the price of the raptor!) Lips Sealed

Any views/guidance?

Ric B.

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Reply #1 - Feb 23^rd, 2009 at 9:42pm

NickN Offline
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FSX runs fine... the problem
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1. SSD has issues unless its the new Intel SSD drives and even then they need 6Gb/s SATAIII ports for full operation in multidisk systems... be another year

unles you are like me and have military spec/grade SSD drives used in high level aircraft computer design/security at your disposal

2. SAS/SCSI is better suited for multiuser networking, not games

3. A WD VelociRaptor is the best HDD on the market for performance and games.

4. 1st Generation Raptors are outdated.. time to upgrade

5... see below, nuff said

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Reply #2 - Feb 24^th, 2009 at 12:41pm

RIC_BARKER Offline
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Cheers for the input Nick,

So, with SSD out of the picture I'm left with an interesting choice.

I'm very lucky that I might be able to get a 300GB 15.5k SAS drive for free, all I would need to buy would be the interface card.

So my two choices are:

2 x 7200rpm 16mb buffer sata HDD in a raid 0 array (for the OS)
1x 15500rpm 16mb buffer SAS HDD with controller (for FSX)

This will cost between £25-£90 - just the cost of the card, the drives are free.

OR

2 x 7200rpm 16mb buffer sata HDD in a raid 0 array (for the OS)
1 x WD VelociRaptor (for FSX)

This will cost approx £170 (for the WD VelociRaptor)

So, on a cost/performance basis (drive capacity aside), which seems like the best deal?

RB.

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Reply #3 - Feb 24^th, 2009 at 5:35pm