I'm building a new rig and I want to use SSD's for the vista home prem OS. I've seen SSD's that plug into a Pci slot. Does that greatly increase performance over sata or is it a gimmick? Ideally I think 2 intel x25's in raid 0 would be great but I'm not sure I want to spend that much. Ocz has a SSD with built in raid 0, is that any good?
Any opinions or advice will be greatly appreciated.
I think he's referring to the SSD's for Mini PCIe slots as in the Asus EeePC and other netbooks/laptops that can use a Mini PCIe slot to hold/run a SSD card.
if thats what he's referring to, those drives are usually slower than standard Desktop SSD's, at least from what I've read.
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That said, the Intel drives are the fastest consumer level SSD's out. But they are also the most expensive. I myself would have a hard time justifying the cost of those.
But like Ex said, the OCZ Vertex drives are cheaper, and just a little bit slower. I've seen some benchmarks of 4 Vertex drives in RAID, and talk about some read/write speeds.
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