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bomberboysk said:
Only thing to watch out for is the horrendous write speeds on those drives, not even half of what a decent hard drive can do. (Right now as far as ssd's id wait for the new vertex's with the sandforce controller)
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So these aren't even in the same ballpark as the X25-M?
I couldn't find any benchmarks so I wasn't sure, but I figured since it was still an X25 it would be decent.

Isn't the X25-M G2 the top performer right now?
 
Bodaggit23 said:
So these aren't even in the same ballpark as the X25-M?
I couldn't find any benchmarks so I wasn't sure, but I figured since it was still an X25 it would be decent.

Isn't the X25-M G2 the top performer right now?
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The X25-M series are the higher performance ones. In march however ocz will be releasing the agility 2 with a controller from sandforce, which so far in benchmarks it has apparently kicked intel in the rump. The X25-V is a "budget" ssd, and actually a better deal right now would be the 30gb vertex on shellshocker:
http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx
 
bomberboysk said:
The X25-M series are the higher performance ones. In march however ocz will be releasing the agility 2 with a controller from sandforce, which so far in benchmarks it has apparently kicked intel in the rump. The X25-V is a "budget" ssd, and actually a better deal right now would be the 30gb vertex on shellshocker:
http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx
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Ok cool. Thanks for the info.

Would you choose a Vertex over RAID 5 with three of these?
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB $54.99
 
Bodaggit23 said:
Ok cool. Thanks for the info.

Would you choose a Vertex over RAID 5 with three of these?
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB $54.99
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Dependant upon use, i would probably go for the hard drives at this current point in time (although it really depends on what drive you will be running as storage because a 30gb drive isnt going to get much more than the OS on it). If you were picking up some drives soon, id say raid 5 with the 7200.12's(i have two in raid 0 and they are some fast drives), however if you plan on waiting awhile i would wait to see what kind of competition the newer ssd's from ocz will bring out.
 
bomberboysk said:
Dependant upon use, i would probably go for the hard drives at this current point in time (although it really depends on what drive you will be running as storage because a 30gb drive isnt going to get much more than the OS on it). If you were picking up some drives soon, id say raid 5 with the 7200.12's(i have two in raid 0 and they are some fast drives), however if you plan on waiting awhile i would wait to see what kind of competition the newer ssd's from ocz will bring out.
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I plan to get these within a month. I don't like the price/gig the SSD's offer, so I'll get doing RAID for a while.

Thanks for all the input bomber. :good:
 
Twist86 said:
Not bad extra $5 for 250GB of space and the .12 drives are pretty fast. I still prefer single platter drives though just a small FYI to anyone wanting to buy it read well on the drive. Seagate has been getting a lot of negative feedback on their multi-platter drives.
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Generally, seagate had been getting more negative feedback on the 7100.11 drives--both single and multi platter(not gonna lie, i loved the performance of my 7200.11's but they were crazy unreliable). The 7200.12 are fine in both single and multiplatter areas(plus the multiplatter 7200.12 has ~2.5ms better random access time).
 
If anyone has a microcenter nearby, they have great prices on cpu's:

i3 530 $99.99:
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i5 650 $149.99:
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i5 750 $179.99:
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And of course the 920 and 860 are both $229.99 at microcenter as well: (This deal has been around for quite awhile)
860:
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920:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0302727
 
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