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what would be better to do buy 2 VelociRaptor 300GB 10,000rpm SATA II and raid them togetter in raid 0 or get 2 Kingston SSD 128Gb and raid them togetter in raid 0 there both the same price right now

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Well, if you're looking for pure speed go for the Kingstons. They are faster and more reliable, but can hold less data. And don't forget, they're a lot more expensive than hard disks of equal capacity!

Are you sure? Average read-speeds for the Kingston V-series SSD are around 100mbps, which according to some reviews is lower than the Velociraptor (100mbps vs 109mbps on average). Of course Random Access drops significantly with the SSD. I think with the SSD's you'll see a slight increase in performance, but you'll also be missing a lot of the capacity you would have had with the Velociraptors. Write speeds are also a little lower on the SSD and in the future you may run in to bit-rot problems quicker than with the Velociraptor (unless that has been fixed on that particular SSD).

I average around 195mb/s RAID-0 with my Velocirpators in RAID-0

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