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Sounds like it has something to do with timing belt/pulley area. mine has a sound like rubbing under 2000tpm from cam cover but it isnt rubbing. been there for 18months lol

So you reckon it could possibly be normal? I never noticed this sound before and in underground parking I can hear it a bit more clearly...

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@sneaky pete:

You seem knowledgable on SSDs, school me. My knowledge is out of date.

My motherboard only supports SATA2 :(. Am I better off with:

A) 2 drives on the SATA2 ports in RAID0

B) A SATA3 PCIe card with a single big drive?

C) A SATA3 PCIe card with 2 smaller drives in RAID0?

I'm going to need at least '120GB', so a single 120 or two 60s are both options.

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@sneaky pete:

You seem knowledgable on SSDs, school me. My knowledge is out of date.

My motherboard only supports SATA2 :(. Am I better off with:

A) 2 drives on the SATA2 ports in RAID0

B) A SATA3 PCIe card with a single big drive?

C) A SATA3 PCIe card with 2 smaller drives in RAID0?

I'm going to need at least '120GB', so a single 120 or two 60s are both options.

I still go traditional methods.

I have a few clients who use SSD but found its really only useful on boot... And too many horror stories with RAID when one HDD kicks the bucket

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I get the impression that for SSD's, running a RAID setup (the one that share the data, not the one that mirrors it across both drives) doesn't produce any noticeable gains due to the way the data is written to the drives themselves.

There's supposedly a decent difference with SATA2 vs SATA3 etc with the latest generation of drives

Unless your data isn't compressible (eg movies, or whatever your working with, you'll have to figure that bit out), devices that use the 'sandforce' drivers are supposed to be pretty darn good.

Choice depends on your budget though, but if you want what's considered by most to be the "best" consumer level SSD, the OCZ vertex 3 is probably it. PCI-e plug ins are about 50% more expensive, which is crazy.

Honestly, due to the fact yuo've still got a SATA2 motherboard, i'd just pick up a OCZ vertex 2 120gb (review. They might be 6 months outdated, but are still a great drive (blow away any disc based hard drive), wont bottleneck on your setup and are cheap, $190 from umart for a 120gb or $350 for 240GB

As far as usefulness of a SSD goes, depends on what your doing. I'm not going out of my way to get one (though 200 bucks for a 120gb one is cheap) because i rarely need the speed. other people might.

As far as reliability goes, your not realistically going to run out of cycles on the memory. Read an article on that point, and they pointed out that, though there might be a 10000 cycle limit, the fact that you aren't rewriting the entire drive every time you do something it would take about 10 years of normal usage to run out.

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Did some more research today, looks like you still see a fair bit of benefit with RAID0. I think I'll go with two vertex IIs in RAID0, might see if I can splurge for 2 x 120s...

Indeed *strokes beard*

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You guys play cricket? "the nets"

I'm a bit of an x cricketer... was thinking about getting into playing some warehouse or similar again...

we do, careful you might get a call up we are always short of people lol

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Haha, I would love to play, but I haven't played a game for about... 8ish years... I actually come from quite a background of cricket until I took an injury which stopped me from walking for about 1 year and of course forced me to give it up

I imagine now I work on the PC 24/7 I'd be pretty unco - Although I still try to train quite a bit

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haha. Would love to go to the nets sometime with you guys.

I used to be opening batsman and had the odd over or two... But cant imagine being as flash as i used to be

there is a net session on sunday, I too used to be an opening batsman 12 years ago, its taking time but slowly getting back to form!

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