New SSD advice please...

The Joker said:
So you commit insurance fraud because you shorten the life of your ssd's and then can't be bothered just to buy new ones? Rather make a false claim and get them for free?
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I don't understand why u would even do this in the 1st place... If u got that kind of money to blow then do it properly. Get SAS drives...
 
Duiwel said:
For the money here is your link proof why I said OCZ:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html

Crucial are fantastic but not the best price for what you pay ;)

No idea why Samsung didn't make that list though they were still one of the top 4 in Dec 2014

To the other guys, sure I lessen my writes with that, but hey insurance is a wonderful thing ;)
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So you are advocating buying better quality drives for improved reliability only to shorten the life spans using raid5 and then committing insurance fraud instead of just doing it right in the first place...

...

I can't even...
 
Strong name joker, you need to be able to take a joke...

Do you realise how many writes you have on a SSD ? regardless on whether it's standard, RAID 0, Raid 5 too many for any casual to surpass thus my last part was obviously meant in HUMOR hence the smiley winky face. I'm glad your sense of humor is so large that you caught on... oh wait.

Perhaps you should try, you know being a joker?
 
Duiwel said:
Strong name joker, you need to be able to take a joke...

Do you realise how many writes you have on a SSD ? regardless on whether it's standard, RAID 0, Raid 5 too many for any casual to surpass thus my last part was obviously meant in HUMOR hence the smiley winky face. I'm glad your sense of humor is so large that you caught on... oh wait.

Perhaps you should try, you know being a joker?
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Yeah except for the fact its not funny, I deal with this stuff on a daily basis, you know how many people come in with broken hardware that they knowingly broke, whether it was an accident or not and then tell me, ah its ok they'll just tell their insurance that it happened during a blackout ect and if I wouldn't mind writing a fault report stating exactly that.

Ethics "whistling:

Edit: Should add, Insurance companies are wise to this act now and they are starting the whole we'll only pay out what the item is worth now.

So SSD is 1 year old, New price is R3000 minus the time you've used it so now you only end up getting R1800.
Not to mention they don't take into account the exchange rate, they go according to what you paid 12 months ago.

The only way to get around that is to list your pc and each component and do a set value for the insurance.

Anyway going off topic.
 
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My SSD arrived already :)

So now i need to do a full clean up of my PC (a lot of dust build up), then installing windows on my new drive!
 
Crableg said:
My SSD arrived already :)

So now i need to do a full clean up of my PC (a lot of dust build up), then installing windows on my new drive!
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I hate reinstalling Windows (or whichever OS you use). Not the installing of the OS so much as the installing of all the software and drivers afterwards, it takes so much time :/
 
Blazzok said:
I hate reinstalling Windows (or whichever OS you use). Not the installing of the OS so much as the installing of all the software and drivers afterwards, it takes so much time :/
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Ye I dunno about that...

Do urself a favour, load ur OS disk on a USB stick (usb3 even better). Have all ur latest drivers predownloaded and start the format/reinstall. I typically fully up and running inside 1hr.
 
That sucks man

I've never claimed on a pc apart from a laptop that was stolen so don't worry it was meant as a joke take it for what it is.

Live up to your name more often and don't take life so serious
 
Lothy said:
I don't understand why u would even do this in the 1st place... If u got that kind of money to blow then do it properly. Get SAS drives...
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SAS is all well and good but in a home pc ? I don't see the benefit of spending that kind of cash on SAS drives and controllers when a single SSD and a normal Green drive will give you all you need for a LOT cheaper.
 
Nimatek said:
SAS is all well and good but in a home pc ? I don't see the benefit of spending that kind of cash on SAS drives and controllers when a single SSD and a normal Green drive will give you all you need for a LOT cheaper.
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The example is this:

buying 3x512gb SSD drives

So instead of spending a stupid amount on those drives for Raid 5, when perhaps for a little more u could go the SAS route. In my mind, buying multiple SSDs for raiding is stupid. Only raid configuration that works is raid 0, and u must be happy with the fact that you will be reducing the life of ur drives and not to keep anything on it that is vitally important. So that's why im saying if u want that kind of performance, spend more and get the reliability to boot.
 
Lothy said:
The example is this:

buying 3x512gb SSD drives

So instead of spending a stupid amount on those drives for Raid 5, when perhaps for a little more u could go the SAS route. In my mind, buying multiple SSDs for raiding is stupid. Only raid configuration that works is raid 0, and u must be happy with the fact that you will be reducing the life of ur drives and not to keep anything on it that is vitally important. So that's why im saying if u want that kind of performance, spend more and get the reliability to boot.
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Ok that makes sense, I agree though, RAID5 on SSD is just silly. You want the performance for the system so RAID0 or RAID1 to cover that but honestly why go through all the effort of getting that kind of performance on a home pc.

Work place is a different story, SAS or nothing!
 
Nimatek said:
Ok that makes sense, I agree though, RAID5 on SSD is just silly. You want the performance for the system so RAID0 or RAID1 to cover that but honestly why go through all the effort of getting that kind of performance on a home pc.

Work place is a different story, SAS or nothing!
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THIS! is my case and point. And I mean this in the nicest possible way, if u happy to blow that kind of money for raid 5, then ur an idiot. All u doin is attempting to look big and show off.
 
Lothy said:
THIS! is my case and point. And I mean this in the nicest possible way, if u happy to blow that kind of money for raid 5, then ur an idiot. All u doin is attempting to look big and show off.
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However if you RAID5 3 or more SSD's then you're rather being silly since RAID5 decreases performance. So this to me at least, is not a bragging point.

Put 6 SSD's in RAID10 and I will think better of you, even though you have too much bloody money to waste :D
 
Nimatek said:
However if you RAID5 3 or more SSD's then you're rather being silly since RAID5 decreases performance. So this to me at least, is not a bragging point.

Put 6 SSD's in RAID10 and I will think better of you, even though you have too much bloody money to waste :D
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Lol again u murdering 3 SSD drives for redundancy...

Is it possible to have the SSD top layer and std hdd for the mirroring?
 
Well you can use a SSD for the system drive and then RAID1 or RAID10 some normal GREEN drives. Would still provide a good performance increase. Also, I wouldn't look at you too unkindly that way :p
 
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