New build, how'd I do?

Vertex 3 mi is a fucking beast. I hear the intel SSD's are pretty sturdy too so definitely don't overlook it.

 

Crucial M4 - Read speeds up to 415MB/s write would be something like the intel drive, cbf looking up reviews.
OCZ AGILITY 3 - Max read up to 525MB/s, max write up to 500MB/s
Corsair force 3 -550 MB/s sequential read — 510 MB/s sequential write.
Intel 510 - 120gig version - up to 400mb read, 210 write, 250gig version, 500mb read 315mb write.
Vertex 3 - Max read up to 550MB/s, max write up to 500MB/s.

You want a sandforce based SSD, like the corsair, OCZ drives.
And don't touch SATA 2 SSDs, you want SATA 3(3=6gbps, 2=3gbps)

 

Yeah I know, I'd thoroughly research it before I make the choice on what SSD to go with, but that's probably a few months off at the least and there could and probably will be better controllers/drives out by then. 480 SLI is higher priority because I'll see a much bigger real world performance increase with that than with an SSD (SSD really only helps load times in games... not worried if Windows boots a little slow lulz if it means trading off valuable FPS)

As a somewhat temporary solution, I could just as well buy another 1TB hard drive or one of the new Seagate drives with SSD caching and have that as a dedicated recording drive so that FRAPS won't hit my FPS so hard.

edit: on second thought, doubt the SSD caching would have much if any benefit for something like recording, nvm, with mechanicals so cheap I could get a RAID setup on the cheap that would be pretty damn effective

 

Hybrid drive maybe?

 

RAID 0 HDDs come nowhere near the speed of SSDs.
HDD speed is something like 130mb, and SSD(revodrives are a diff story) are like 3x that speed.
Plus RAID has a chance of losing all your data on it so you'd need backup(more money on HDDs if you dont own any others)

 

Exactly why I don't use raid on my main computer.^^

Now, get a few SSD's in raid 0 or 1, then you've got some hot shit.

 

Pretty sure that the speeds advertised on most if not all SSDs are exaggerated, and the benchmarks are synthetic and not a very good indicator of actual real world speed. I'd be surprised to see much over 300mb/s in real world applications from even some of the best SSDs lawl and I'm being generous

Still though, I never compared them to SSDs lol. Just said it would tide me over and I highly doubt I'm gonna absolutely NEED the power of an SSD in order to record with FRAPS without significant performance loss. Also if the drives fail it's not like I've lost anything crucial, just gameplays and things. Just a thought in the first place rofl

 

Meh, I don't trust RAID, if I wanted SSD performance I'd get a revo drive. 1000mb read, 900mb write anyone?
And true, and it's the same with HDDs aswell tho. HDDs cant even break the sata 2 speed, so.

 

It was still just a thought

It probably won't even happen though, I'd rather have that extra 480 lol, could probably afford to take a FPS hit with two of those monsters and not even notice much