Yo hh & tech nerds

Im looking to invest in some new pc StUfF to support my hobby of editing that i just picked up. I plan on getting the i7 2600k and asus p8z68 mobo in the near future. My question is Bout SSD's since im going to buy one within the nextfew days. Heres three ive looked at any cc would help greatly or if you see better post it!

First deal is


Kingston 120GB HyperX SATA 6Gbps SSD

Hotness: Posted 2 days 16 hr ago
Staples offers the Kingston 120GB HyperX 3K Serial ATA 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD, model no. SH103S3/120G, for $74.99 with free shipping ($0.62/GB). That's the lowest total price we could find by $21, although we saw it for $15 less three days ago (since expired). Sales tax is added where applicable. Features include max write speeds of 510MB/sec and max read speeds of 555MB/sec.


Corsair 144 dollars

PERFORMANCE AND SPECIFICATIONS
Interface: SATA 3 6Gb/second
Storage technology: Asynchronous NAND
Sequential read speed: 525MB/s (60GB model), 550 MB/s (90GB, 120GB, 180GB and 240GB models), 540 MB/s (40GB model)
Sequential write speed: 490 MB/s (60GB model), 500 MB/s (90GB model), 510 MB/s (120GB model), 520 MB/s (180GB, 240GB models), 425 MB/s (480GB model)
Operating temperature: 0° C to +70° C
Storage temperature: -20° C to +85° C
Operating Humidity: 10% to 90% RH (0° to +40° C)
Maximum Operating Altitude: 3,048 m (up to 10,000 ft.)
Maximum Non-Operative Altitude: 12,192 m (up to 40,000 ft.)

Third deal

Intel- Cherryville 180 GB Internal Solid State Drive - 1 x OEM Pack

Storage Capacity: 180 GB
Maximum Read Transfer Rate: 550 MBps
Maximum Write Transfer Rate: 520 MBps
Drive Interface: SATA/600
Form Factor: Internal
Compatible Drive Bay Width: 2.5"
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227807&nm_mc=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r&cm_mmc=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r-_-Solid+State+Disk-_-OCZ+Technology-_-20227807

thats probably one of the best bang for your buck SSD.

But if you wanna spend a little more http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147163

^ That's one of the top performing SSD's on the market, the other thing I'd suggest is buying 2 and running them as RAID0, that'll get you top performance.

But I will add one thing in, if you're using it for video editing, I'd think more about getting 2 fast 500GB+ drives and running RAID0 or RAID0+1 / RAID5 or something, because SSD have limited writes to them, and usually aren't very good with straight up video editing, they wear out fast.

SSD's are good for your boot drive, so you can startup faster and good for your big and heavy programs, they start extremely quick, but as for a working drive for video, standard SATA2/3 mechanical drives are probably better to be honest. you'll wear out SSD's quick with video editing and might not even see a good performance increase.

Explain raid0

Why do you need an SSD? If I'm correct, SSD is Solid State Drive, aka a hard drive that's int he form of a chip, and not disks like normal HDDs. Why is that necessary? You could probably buy a 1TB quality HDD for the same price as an SSD.

Regardless, I have an i7 dual core with 8gb of RAM and an AMD firepro card on my laptop, and that StUfF works like a charm, like I get 280 fps on minecraft no problem. (yeah, it's minecraft, and and anything above 60 fps is worthless, but still!).

Also, remember that you're only as strong as your weakest link. Aka if you have an amazing gfx card and an amazing processor, but a shitty motherboard, you pretty much just wasted your money. Choose wisely nigga.

Ssd launch StUfF quicker hopin it would speed up rendering and load times

What would be a beast hdd fast and at least 1t

youre wasting your money on an ssd right now tbh you wont even notice the difference.

I decided im just gonna save up for a bmw or somthing lol

SSD is only useful if you want fast boot times, that's about it.

Even on high-end SSD stuff you only have so many reads/writes on data, thats why say if you buy a 120GB SSD, the actual space on the drive is probably more like 130GB or so, the extra 10GB is when write parts start to fail.

They are no good for rendering because they wear out fast with heavy usage like that, unless you invest thousands in a enterprise class drive, which enterprise class drives aren't as fast as consumer performance SSD's for the most part anyways, they're slightly faster but made for situations where they aren't written to over and over again and offer good data protection.

The only other good reason for a SSD is in a laptop, less prone to failure, due to no mechanical parts.

Also SSD's DO increase performance noticeably, if you don't believe it look up user tests and videos, I even personally have tested it, I've taken an old machine (circa 2003-2004) with 1GB RAM / 1.3Ghz single-core celeron and Windows XP pro on it (still the original stock install so slow as Crud) and migrated to a 40GB SSD and it'd boot in ~10-15 seconds vs like 4 minutes.

You gotta remember, you can have the fastest memory, processor, and graphics chip in the world, and it's bottle necked by how fast your program data can get there, which is your hard drive.

MoH Grave wrote:

I decided im just gonna save up for a bmw or somthing lol

you did the right thing. a bmw too eh thats sick as Crud