ssd or cheetah 15.k6

[pjsb]

what you guys thinking about new seagate cheetah 15.k6 600Gb or 300 Gb SAS hard drive and the OCZ 128 SATA2 SSD drive. which one is better for system and gaming disk??

 

[EarthwormJim]

Ssd .

No mechanical hard drive can even come close to good SSDs. Plus with a cheetah you'd have to buy an SAS controller.

*edit* weird it won't let me capitalize every letter...

 

[Miramonti]

I'm thinking SSD's are going to drop in price after the holidays too.

 

[arcenite]

Coming from someone who has RAID0 Velociraptors, I say... go for the ssd. They cannot be beat for seek times, though transfer rates can still be matched by RAID mechanical drives for similar cost and much more space. Depends on what's important to you.

I won't be touching my velociraptors until I can afford to go RAID0 SSD.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

Another vote for SSD.

 

[RollerBoySE]

Even though 15k SAS-drives are considerably faster than VelociRaptors they are still left in the dust when compared to a fast SSD.

You mention that you consider a SSD from OCZ, but don't say which one. Make sure it's based on Indilinx Barefoot (Vertex and Agility), the ones based on JMicron and Samsung controllers are not so fast in the real world.

 

[Ben90]

I'm thinking SSD's are going to drop in price after the holidays too.

Its possible, but I doubt it. Im under the impression that SSD prices are controlled by NAND availability. Although it is possible that demand will be lower after the holidays, but i don't think it will be enough to lower prices.