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Help with building a tower
Freedom Kira:
You can't judge an SSD's age by its transfer speeds. Especially because it's a WD - their previous SSDs all sucked. There are probably other features to it that aren't immediately obvious.
It looks promising compared to WD's older stuff, but OTOH it doesn't compare in write speed nor price to other companies' stuff. I mean, back in Feb I got a 240GB G.Skill Phoenix Pro for $410-ish. Nearly five months later, WD releases a 256GB that's just under $100 more whose R/W performance doesn't compare. Hmm. There's gotta be something else.
datora:
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Well, the point being that 256 GB of SSD would still be a very impressive system drive for $200 at today's prices. I skimmed the specs and it compares with most "normal" SATA II SSDs. Even if your other points are valid, using this to run your OS on a budget system would still smoke any affordable mechanical drive given the size of this drive. It could hold the OS, fully tricked out, plus every application and game imaginable, and still have room left over for that Photoshop scratch drive to edit 5 GB files.
But, it's irrelevant. They sold out in ~25-30 minutes. The price was $199.99 U.S. :'( I was in the process of calling friends so I could borrow money for one of these. It'll be a while before a comparable deal crops up.
kitamesume:
i`m just saying "it might be" an old model, considering the other manufacturers new releases has balanced RD/RW speeds, ohh well personally i`d settle for 150MB/s RD/RW transfer speeds XD
anyway, why the heck are they rolling out the AMD FM1 MoBos even though the processor isn't even in the market yet...
kyubixmunky:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on June 30, 2011, 04:14:47 PM ---
@OP be careful when choosing parts, specially with the rams and gpus, gpus tends to have either GDDR3 or GDDR5 while Rams has its timings, voltage and speed. motherboards too, with their chipsets, peripherals(lan chip , Audio chip, etc) and slots(ram, pci-e, pci, sata, etc).
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What do you mean ram and gpu? Aren't their memory types different from each other?
kitamesume:
thats the point, some of them are being tricky not listing it in the names though still listed in the "Details" or actually the names having typos =P well it happens imho.
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