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Originally Posted by Xanthos
Agreed, but I find that the airflow can be setup to flow nicely by adjusting fan speeds. A low speed here, a high speed there... All add up to a nice, smooth air path through the case.
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kinda like speed zones on a video game... lol regular speed here, a little boost there...lol
I used to have a setup that had a single, six blade, 30" fan on the side that spun at a moderate speed and an open air filter element on the other side to keep it clean. then I overclocked it and fried the motherboard and sold the case.
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Originally Posted by Kyle2k
Any opinions on the solid state hard drive?
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see below...
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Originally Posted by Xanthos
I have both a solid state (in my laptop) and standard 7200 rpm drives in my striped raid. The diffence in speed is there, but in my opinion its not worth the extra cost.
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currently not worth the cost. but look back a few years at the cost of larger HDD's. give it a little time and the prices will come down.
with a SSD, you dont have mechanical arms and spinning platters that are most easily damaged in HDDs.
That being said, SSD's are more apt for usage in notebooks/laptops and such that are constantly being moved around, bumped, sometimes dropped, etc.
HDDs work just fine in a desktop computer where the case is not being shuffled around on a regular basis.
SSD's also consume less power than HDDs based off of the nature of how they operate. they dont have any moving parts to draw energy to move. adding into that, SSDs dont build up the heat that HDDs do as well.
SSDs are also faster than HDDs. but, as Xan said, they are pricier compared to HDDs, and another thing that just popped in my mind is that when you delete something from an SSD, it is gone. it wont do like a traditional HDD and "soft delete" it and just rename the file and store it elsewhere.
what you can do is find a compromise. run a 60Gb SSD for your primary drive and run a larger HDD as your secondary storage. This way you can get the effects of the SSD's speed and still afford the larger storage space at an affordable cost with the HDD.