Quote Originally Posted by Xoulz View Post
You can grab a 30GB internal SATA SSD for about $270 bucks.

No raptor on the planet going to match the performance of an SSD. So I don't quite understand your point?
Check a few reviews - then come back.
There's no SSD that beats a Raptor acorss the board, or even in >75% of the cases, yet.
You may think reads are everything or more important, but the thing is Windows ain't that smart - it will write whenever it feels like it That single write in between the reads is enough to cause the reads to slow down as well.
And almost all SSDs are actually even slower write-IOPS wise than Raptors. MemoRight seems to be doing well in this field, but unfortunately, I didn't see any complete review of MR SSDs, only a few HDTach/Tune/Atto_crap benches...