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menzo wrote:

what chip does it use?  stay away from the old JMicron

I did just say they're indilinx, not JMicron.

menzo wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

menzo wrote:

what chip does it use?  stay away from the old JMicron

I did just say they're indilinx, not JMicron.

i think your good    how many are you going to raid?

2 for now, depending on performance might add another 2.

2x64GB should be adequate for an OS and some apps.

Would've rather gone for higher capacity 'cos they're faster - but they're also much more money, these were only £100 each and I figure RAID has got to be worth more than 40-50MB/s transfer rates.

Last edited by Bertster7 (2009-10-12 12:24:51)

CapnNismo wrote:

Wouldn't be a horrible idea. Then just slap one or two 1TB drives into the rig for storage of videos and music. Sounds like it was a good buy.

I already have several TBs of storage in that rig. Got a 1.5TB Samsung (only a slow eco-disk, but they're cheap) to push that up even more as well.....

A mate of mine bought 6 of the OCZ drives in RAID 0. I think those were the JMicron drives, so he's probably going to lose his OS in a few months.

I'd get a 3rd and go with RAID 5.

ghettoperson wrote:

Bert, where did you get them for 100 pounds?

I can get good deals on hard drives through various work contacts....

That said, I was looking at them on OCUK initially, where they WERE only £110 (+VAT, but I don't pay that currently).

I would only really buy Intel SSDs atm. They outperform everything else on the market, by a huge amount.

ghettoperson wrote:

But they cost twice what everything else does.

no?

Seen the prices of X25-M G2 lately? Its <200€.

Can't really even compare the 100€ JMicron SSDs to Indlix and Intel controller ones.

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2009-10-24 08:43:49)

ghettoperson wrote:

But they cost twice what everything else does.

They have a reason for that pricing. They are twice as good as every other SSD.

To buy or not to buy...