Finally bought a Solid State Drive
As an early Christmas present to myself, I took the plunge and finally bought two small 2.5" 60GB solid state drives. They were quite a bit smaller and lighter than I imagined. But in terms of performance, there's quite a difference.
I normally run everything RAID-1, but since everything important is now stored on RAID-1 backed NAS if not Amazon's S3, I figured I could take a little risk for the desktop and run the SSDs in RAID-0. I did some benchmarks to compare. An old 300GB ATA drive did around 50MB/s. My previous 1TB SATA RAID-1 setup performed somewhat better at around 70MB/s. The RAID-0 SSD setup wins by a long shot, with around 320MB/s.
This setup reduces my desktop drive space quite a bit, but that's a good thing. Perhaps it'll be more of an incentive to keep everything neatly on the NAS devices.
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