New boot drive. Raptor?

[ARosch]

My SSD crashed early this week and I am in the market for a new boot drive. I really like the speed of the SSD but I tend to put my computer to sleep a lot and SSDs don't like to sleep. So I am looking for other alternatives to boot from. Is a WD Velociraptor worth the money for 10k rpm or is it best to just grab a 7200rpm HDD. I don't need much storage 75gb is sufficient because I have a media drive.

 

[Elixer]

You will not notice much of a difference between the 10K and 7.2K RPM drives.

 

[Rifter]

You will not notice much of a difference between the 10K and 7.2K RPM drives.

True, but you sure will notice a difference form a SSD, i would just buy another SSD, my intel G2 120GB has no issues with sleep.

 

[ARosch]

I was kind of thinking that. Right now I am looking at a WD Black drive.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Buy an ssd with no sleep issues. I have no problems with a crucial m4 or Samsung 840 series.

 

[ARosch]

Yours has no issues with sleep? Interesting.. I guess I will look into that.

@Rifter

Edit: Mine was a Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD.

 

[ARosch]

Do you have to pro or the... nonpro?
@Jiffylube1024

 

[Burner27]

I have the Samsung 840 Pro and no issues with sleep.

 

[exdeath]

SSD.... Your size requirement is even a prime candidate for it.

 

[Insomniator]

Even if SSD's did have an issue with sleep, I'd stop using sleep before reverting back to a mechanical drive for only 75GB worth of space.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

SSDs have an issue with sleep?

Edit: Mine was a Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD.

I have a Force 3 240GB in my laptop, and it sleeps fine.

Did you not upgrade the firmware lately? Early Sandforce firmware versions did have sleep issues, but that was basically resolved like a year ago.

 

[nenforcer]

The performance and power savings of an SSD completely negate any "sleep" benefits you would have with an older mechanical hard drive.

Just put the system in "Always On" power mode while you are using it and shut it off when you are done.

 

[MrX8503]

Get another SSD. If your space requirement is that low, never settle for a mechanical.

Crucial M4, Intel, Samsung

 

[HeXen]

SSD's have sleep issues? i've owned 4 different ones and never even heard of such. Only Sleep issues i ever had was due to the mouse, had to disable it's ability to wake the computer, so either a ghost was moving it or it just triggers on it's own without moving.

 

[Deders]

The Samsung utility does wake computers up but you can just stop it from running at startup.

 

[bigi]

...and SSDs don't like to sleep...

LOL.

$100 question:

What will fail sooner when repeatedly turned off/on - HDD/SSD?



You really have this wrong, really. Your new strategy will bring lots of grief in a long run.

 

[tweakboy]

Its going to take about 50 seconds to boot to OS , where a SSD would do it in 15 or 20 seconds. gl

 

[jiffylube1024]

I have the 840 non pro. No sleep issues whatsoever.