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About LinkBackshi does anyone have one or know about them, i am thinking of getting one in my new pc.
are they a big advantage on performance, my mobo will be the asus p658xd-e with 6gb of ram and a 650psu and also 3 hd 1tb each.
thanks
mark
hi does anyone have one or know about them, i am thinking of getting one in my new pc.
are they a big advantage on performance, my mobo will be the asus p658xd-e with 6gb of ram and a 650psu and also 3 hd 1tb each.
thanks
mark
Money would be better spent on a SSD boot drive i would imagine.
A friend of mine had one and loved it. Better value than SSD at the moment i think and good performance. I read this review a while back, thought it might be useful:
http://www.reghardware.com/2008/09/0...hdd/page5.html
Thats two years out of date.Originally Posted by george1979
An SSD is better as theyre faster in almost every area, and if its storage your after - just get an F3 or WD Caviar Black; both are pretty much on par with a Raptor anyway.
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
ssd are very high in price and i thought a 450gb rapter would be just as good as spending double the money
mark
I did say I read it a while back!
I was just reading this as I am looking at the Samsung F3 for my computer and it seems to outperform the velociraptor ( I was suprised too) so you may be better saving your money or going for an SSD.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/sto...-1tb-review/10
what size ssd would i need to house my o/s win 7 premium, i thought it had to be 250 to be able to take updates etc?
mark
I had one of the 73GB raptor drives. It was good, but it didn't make any big noticable difference to normal PC performance when compared to a then middle of the road SATA drive. (maybe shaved 1 second from boot time)
I have since done some upgrades and for a while had XP (my pc is dual boot between XP and 7) running on an ancient IDE drive that someone gave me. I have now upgraded my Raptor to a 15k SAS drive and XP has a partition on that. Now that DOES make a difference, but it is still not significant in any way.
If you are on a tight budget then don't bother with anything other than a normal SATA (not a green one) drive.
If you have the money to spare and don't have any big performance issue with your current PC then a Raptor will mean you can be safe in the knowledge that your PC is slightly faster than it was before the Raptor, but it is not likely to make any big difference.
A decent flash SSD will give a decent performance boost (I believe, I've never tried one), but be careful, there are still some with awful write performance.
What do you use this PC for? Are you just wanting to make a decent PC quicker or do you often do tasks that require shifting significant quantities of data from / to the disk? What you use it for will then govern whether seek time or throughput matter most to you.
Of course a HyperOS HyperDrive 5 will shift data (and your money) quicker than anything else.
I had windows 7 running on a 20GB drive for a while. It was a little tight but didn't run out of space. Of course there wasn't room to install any programs, it was just internet use but you could have a second drive for applications.
I also had win7 on my 73GB Raptor for ages and that was fine. Although it did get short on space when I had local installs of SQL, Office and VS team suite.
i use will be using it for photoshop and lightroom, i do photography so i like fast upload times, it does not have to be mega fast but because this is the first pc built for my spec i want to have it nice and quick!
mark
Best drives for the price at the minute is the 64GB Crucial C300, and the 60GB offerings from OCZ (Vertex 2E) and G.Skill (Pheonix Pro).
These have write speeds similar if not better than HDD's and random speeds that trounce 7 shades of the brown over HDD's.
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
The VRs are good, make no mistake, and if you're upgrading from a relatively slow 7200 drive you'll definitely notice the difference. It's just that, as has been said already, the price/performance ratio just isn't good enough anymore, especially with SSDs getting cheaper by the week.
To use a very loose analogy, going from a 'standard' 7200 HDD to a VR = 56k to ISDN, whereas 7200 to SSD = 56k to broadband.
Of course SSDs really aren't designed for lots of write-intensive activities, so if you just want a single-drive solution that will be a good allrounder and price isn't really a factor, the larger capacity VR is worth a punt.
Surely, however, the best way to go at the moment is SSD boot + fast 7200 storage. The f3s are extremely cheap now and, again as has already been said, can keep up with a VR in many scenarios (although, I own both and the VR definitely beats it overall). This solution has got to be the best price/performance solution, even with the relative high cost of SSDs.
Remember, F3s are *nowhere* near VR's in terms of access/seek times. It's a bit like throwing two cars off a cliff and proclaiming that because they explode off the bottom off the cliff at the same time both cars perform equally.
Since you using 3 other 1tb drives as storage i would defo opt for a SSD as a boot drive, i would imagine something around the 60-80gb mark would more then suffice for windows 7 and applications.
SSD come into their own as they have a 0.1ms seek time compared with a standard HD thats around 8ms-16ms, doesn't sound a lot but makes a difference.
Don't keep totally up to date but the cream of the crop used to be the Intel Gen2 80gb HD, but their are a few new ones using the sandforce controller, being the corsair force series and the crucial C300.
If your not 100% ready to give up a HD look at the Seagate momentous XT 500gig, 500gig HD with 4gig of SLC memory.
Moving to a VR made a noticable improvement
but moving to SSD was like a whole new computer... they are just in a different league.
One of the SSDs in the 60-64gb capacity is adequate. I have a 60gb Vertex 2E and it has Win7/Office 07/Adobe CS4/1 large game (COH 8gb)/various useful small utils inc. Nero, etc. Ive got about 18gb left. Shifted a lot of the temp folders inc. IE8, Winrar, etc. to the VelociRaptor to avoid heavy writing to the SSD.
PS CS4 loads in 3 secs on the Vertex and every tool/filter loads in lighting-fast time.
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