As the title states, I am looking for a fast boot drive and was wondering what you guys and gals recommend.
I was going to snag a 1tb WD Black but I have bee reading a lot of bad comments on the recent ones failing quickly.
Also, I can not afford, nor would i pay the price for ssd right now. They are also too small as I want at least 1TB.
Fast boot drive
Fast boot drive
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Re: Fast boot drive
If you got a small SSD, they aren't that expensive - $100 for this. It costs less than a 150GB Velociraptor and will blow it away.
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Re: Fast boot drive
i agree with FZ1 there, cant beat the SSD although i would probably get
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227542
you can always add a Dinosaur HD for space
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227542
you can always add a Dinosaur HD for space
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Re: Fast boot drive
I have 5 other hard drives in this system, it's just the video reviews I do take a LOT of space while editing them. I am always removing the videos that are done from the boot drive and moving them to one of my 1tb wd green drives for storage. I was just hoping to get away from doing that so often (I only have a 200gb boot drive now).
I guess any 7200 rpm drive would be almost as fast as the other so unless i go with a ssd I wont notice any better performance. hrmmm....thanx for the answers so far!
I guess any 7200 rpm drive would be almost as fast as the other so unless i go with a ssd I wont notice any better performance. hrmmm....thanx for the answers so far!
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Re: Fast boot drive
I'm very happy so far with my Intel SSD, cut my boot time in half.
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Re: Fast boot drive
a cheaper alternative to a boot drive while gaining space, would be to go with 4 Seagate Momentus 7200 16MB cache drives in RAID-0 this one HERE which I am running 4 of these, or get 4 of these HERE. Granted they no SSD but they are fairly quick and when stuck in a RAID array are fairly fast as well.
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Re: Fast boot drive
Well, I could not afford a SSD unless I went with a tiny drive that serves no purpose except using it to boot from. I want somethign that will handle my video files fast also and ssd is too expensive for a decent size.
I also could not get 4 drives LOL to run in a RAID setup.
I settled for this - http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-Deskstar- ... B003SX0ORU - Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm for $50 - wont help much on boot but it gives a ton more storage at a way cheaper price than SSD.
I have not run a Hitachi hard drive for a while as I normally stick with WD or Seagate. Let's hope the quality is there!
I also could not get 4 drives LOL to run in a RAID setup.
I settled for this - http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-Deskstar- ... B003SX0ORU - Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm for $50 - wont help much on boot but it gives a ton more storage at a way cheaper price than SSD.
I have not run a Hitachi hard drive for a while as I normally stick with WD or Seagate. Let's hope the quality is there!
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