Yes if you RAID stripe them together.

Samsung 840 Pro gets my vote over HyperX.
You can hook up both 120GB SSD and RAID them, and they will look great on benchmarks. But the real world difference wouldn't be that much different than a single SSD. In fact, since most 240GB SSD are a bit faster than their 120GB versions, I don't see why you'd want to take up 2 SATA slots instead of going with a single bigger SSD.

lol coz the hyperx was on sale and cheaper then the 240gb version...

but mostly because im just curious, thats all..

when you RAID SSD drives, I believe you lose TRIM

All too true. Which is yet another reason why you are better off just getting a larger capacity SSD.

Bought the HyperX. First SSD, and I'm amazed with the speeds! (On Sata2 too).

If anyone is looking for a new PSU

Corsair Professional Series HX750 750W ATX Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold Power Supply PFC 140mm Fan

Best price for gold 750 right now. Modular and 7 years warranty, just picked one up myself :D

Price match at ME for $97.49. :fuckyea:

ME is going to have a sale on this Antec on sunday http://www.memoryexpress.com/Product...DailyDeal-Jun3

they have a sale now but i imagine it's going to be even cheaper for their 24hr sale

Hmm... came across this SanDisk blowout offer on Amazon.com (US site) that is only valid for today:

SanDisk Deal of the Day

The 240GB SSD deal seems quite attractive:

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-2-5-Inch-Solid-SDSSDX-240G-G25/dp/B006EKJ8UI/ref=br_lf_m_1001225461_1_3_ttl?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&pf_rd_p=1560989522&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1001225461&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0EFSZYPHR1KA66160YQ0
Yes, it is "only" running on a SandForce SF-2281, but at $0.625/GB, I am finding it very difficult to resist the temptation to buy...

Hmm...

^ I bought it a year ago for $10 more
great bang for buck but when it first launched TRIM was broken...they patched it up after a few months with a new FW

ouch looks like all the overclocking hype fell flat on its face
2500K is going to be the next Q6600...if not even more futureproof
perfect time for AMD to really win back some of the desktop users

ohhh should i cancel my hyperx 3k order and go for that sandisk instead?


edit: meh nevermind

I'd say it is entirely up to you. They are both running the same SandForce SF-2281 controller, but the SanDisk is a bigger drive, and so the IO ops will be slightly faster. Also, the SanDisk has more storage space. But it is more $$, and you'll have to have it shipped to Point Roberts for pick up if you don't want to get stuck with international shipping.

Thanks, yeah I looked at a review noticed they're basically the same and it comes down to $70 more ah well

only using it in my htpc for the os so i guess the hyperx is already good enough




edit: any recommendations on a sata2 expansion card? everything i seem to find seems to have horrible/mixed reviews :/ just need 2-4 more sata slots

Not sure what you mean by 'only'. SF2281 is pretty much the best consumer SSD controller that currently exists. None are as consistent and none handle steady state as well.

Aren't the current crop of top consumer drives using newer controllers such as Indilinx Barefoot 3 (OCZ Vector), Samsung MDX (840 Pro), LAMD LM87800 (Corsair Neutron GTX, Seagate 600 Pro), etc.? SF2281 isn't slow. But I wouldn't call it the latest and greatest either.

Some have advantages, some have disadvantages.

Barefoot 3 is good, especially at keeping access times down while in steady state. However the throughput consistency is not as good as SF2281 at steady state.

I know based on Anand's review Samsung MDX's consistency is horrible (his site is the only other one to test for this), but he doesn't do a steady state curve test so I can't comment on that. If it's anything like the older Samsung controllers, it will be bad too. (edit: HardOCP tests for it, and it is as bad, as I expected)

LM87800 consistency is great, but again I don't know how it handles steady state.

Fresh state performance tests don't mean much if the drive loses its performance as soon as it hits a steady state. And some drives handle this much better than others... It's crazy to me that the 'big sites' don't test for this. Is it because a single test takes at least 3-4 hours to run? I don't know... (edit: I checked HardOCP for this too, and the steady state performance looks good)

In my experience, SandForce drives handle it best of all, at least on the consumer drive side of things. It looks like the LAMD controllers are good too.

And for the record, I never called it "the latest and greatest". It is an older controller, and others (well at least one) has caught up. It is 'one of' the greatest, and because it is older, prices are usually lower than the other, newer controllers.

$45 for a Zalman LQ-320 (after mir)

Zalman LQ-320 CPU Liquid Cooler at Memory Express

Just brought a Haswell setup off jd.com here in China.... placed order last night near midnight and the delivery guy was already knocking on my door before I even woke up this morning!

Got the following
4770k
16GB Ram
Asrock Z87 ITX board
Coolermaster 500w PSU
7870
Corsair H60
Bitfenix Prodigy
Plextor 256GB M-SATA drive
Logitech Gaming mouse and Razor black widow keyboard
Dell Ultrasharp 23" LCD

All this came to $11,000 RMB

Anyone interested?

AMD Finally Introduces the 5 GHz FX-9590 CPU - OEM Only (for now)

Hey could you guys help me build a computer.

Thank you
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LOL more info would be good like what you need it for and especially BUDGET... otherwise we could give you a $5000 build.. :lawl:

budget and what you primarily use it for.

Why don't we have like 10ghz+ chips by now?

Thoughts? Might do a switch over to Haswell, but really not needed.

Intel Core i5-3570K, EVGA GeForce GTX 770 - System Build - PCPartPicker

Got a case lying around. Going to do 2 identical builds. 1 for my friend and I