Its normal when next gen stuffs come out for electronic products. When I searching for SSD, their prices are still expensive. When I'm thinking I could get 2 1TB drives and RAID0 them for the price of 1 SSD, I simply stopped the mind of getting SSD. Somemore I get 1 TB vs 40GB.

Wa, Jayacom selling F3 1TB for RM181! Wow! RAID0 setup only for RM362, haha.

haha, maybe aiming SSD for it's access time?
far lower then HDD.

SSD are speculated to be same price but double the storage space by Q4.

will this do?


single file, averaging around 37-41 MBps


multiple files averaging around 8-10 MBps

so, do these values differ much from the "ready-made" external hdds?

A good SSD will still crush a RAID 4x 1TB array in raw performance like boot speeds. The best way to utilise SSDs is to buy only one for your OS, applications and games partition. Use cheaper huge capacity HDDs for your data storage like audio, video and pictures.



FidelisGVR, for multiple files, HDD performance usually suffers greatly, because their access times are very slow.

I want to ask something about External Harddisk and i not sure whether am i posting this question in correct section. My friend asking me to help him get a 500gb external hard disk. His budget is around <Rm300. What kind or brand External Hard Disk can he get? 3.5' or 2.5' also can. I nid help since i am a noob XD

yeah, i know that.. it's just that i'm wondering: can these figures go up (or down) if different hdd enclosures are used, like say if we compare between mine, a cap ayam cliptec enclosure and a WD Passport, for example.

Maybe the value will go up with e-sata.

seldom see e-sate external harddisk lo, mostly still usb 2.0 one.

Yes, I agree. SSDs are strong in access time. Still, the cost/performance, HDD is still leading including cost/storage size.

I was hoping 80GB or more will be more affordable. 40GB/64Gb is too small for general use. Especially when there are many large programs and files generated by those programs. You always don't want your HDD shown in red color indicate few more GBs available.

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Added on July 24, 2010, 12:51 amYeah. e-sata is quite hard to find. I think USB 3.0 will dominate for the next gen spec.

@mikelim, there are many brands available. Just get those famous one like WD, Seagate, Buffalo etc. Get 2.5" one, 3.5 is simply too big to carry around, unless you want external storage solution for your desktop.

This post has been edited by 5564321: Jul 24 2010, 12:51 AM

think so, e-sata not a popular interface compared to USB.
also not all motherboard will have e-sata connection.

if im not mistaken, for ssd you need to allocate ~20% free space, so that the drive wont suffer from performance degradation.

so if 80gb less 20% free space, actual can use until 64gb only, before taking a performance hit.

Since you don't mind the dimension get a 3.5" one, better value for money.
Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 (HD103SJ) = RM 181 (Jayacom)
+
Nexstar CX (NST-300S2-BK) = RM 75 (LYN traders)

Total = RM256

Edit:
Oops.. overlooked the fact that your friend wanted a 500GB external hard disk... oh well he can get a 1TB one for that budget so you might as well tell him that.

This post has been edited by cannavaro: Jul 24 2010, 05:31 AM

thx u. i will tell him about this.

i'm thinking of getting a 2.5" external hdd 500GB, does buffalo ext hd comes with e-sata? or any other better brands that comes with e-sata? thanks in advance

e-sata has a limitation, it can't power up the drive..., thus, you need to have a USB and e-sata port

USB 3.0 requires new accessory if you on USB 2.0

hey, is that means if i have an 80GB SSD, to avoid performance hit,
then i can only format 64GB to use, then the other 16GB leave it unformat?

It doesn't make sense for a 2.5" to have e-sata. That's why you see little 2.5" come with it.
2.5" main function is portability and ease to use.
With e-sata, you either need adapter to power up the hdd, or need to use USB as power supply source. Either one means less portability and troublesome already.

For 3.5" yes, e-sata is useful.

oh, i didn't know that e-sata couldn't power up the device. thanks for the info anyway
and about usb 3.0, does our conventional USB ports and windows 7 supports it?
according to here, they said it will work fine

That used to be the case on 1st gen SSDs (especially those based on Intel) which doesn't support the TRIM command.
So the issue becomes that the drive will get a performance hit over time, wherter or not if you allocate ~20% of space.

These days, SSDs which has the TRIM command doesn't suffer from this issue.
Indilinx, Marvell and Sandforce based SSDs all have the TRIM command supporterd under Windows 7.

However the biggest issue now for SSD (aside from its price obviously), is that Sandforce based SSDs (which provides some of the fastest SSD around the market) suffers from file compression.
Earlier this year, SSDs that are built with the Sandforce controller would come on the pack saying it has 128GB of storage space but really the actual formatted space that you get is only 93GB or so.

The issue is getting resolved now, but Sandforce based SSDs despite being one of the fastest and probably the best value for money (other than cheapo Indilinx Barefoot Eco controllers) still does suffer from the file compression issue.