Well, I've gone crazy

[Speederlander]

Personally, I have used both SSD 2x mtron in RAID 0 and Velociraptor 2x RAID 0 and I couldn't feel any real difference. At least not where it counted. Sure, some minor things were maybe a wee bit faster, but overall I am firmly of the opnion that the people who rave about how much faster their new SSD array is over the better disk-based set-ups are mostly falling prey to the "It must be better because I just spent $$$$", effect. It "feels" so much better because they dropped so much cash nothing else would be acceptable. Everyone posts up HDTach and HDTune all the time but those benches are just misleading.

[flopper]

Personally, I have used both SSD 2x mtron in RAID 0 and Velociraptor 2x RAID 0 and I couldn't feel any real difference. At least not where it counted. Sure, some minor things were maybe a wee bit faster, but overall I am firmly of the opnion that the people who rave about how much faster their new SSD array is over the better disk-based set-ups are mostly falling prey to the "It must be better because I just spent $$$$", effect. It "feels" so much better because they dropped so much cash nothing else would be acceptable. Everyone posts up HDTach and HDTune all the time but those benches are just misleading.

Desktop is faster using ssd, and I used velociraptor, and I aint talking about the number of data beeing read from the disks, but the snappy obviously felt sensation using ssd.
This is also similiar to some people who dont hear a difference between onboard sound and a new sound card.
some even pour coca cola into 18 year old single malt whiskey.

For me ssd made an impact as much I wouldnt go back to drives with old tech.

[One_Hertz]

Personally, I have used both SSD 2x mtron in RAID 0 and Velociraptor 2x RAID 0 and I couldn't feel any real difference. At least not where it counted. Sure, some minor things were maybe a wee bit faster, but overall I am firmly of the opnion that the people who rave about how much faster their new SSD array is over the better disk-based set-ups are mostly falling prey to the "It must be better because I just spent $$$$", effect. It "feels" so much better because they dropped so much cash nothing else would be acceptable. Everyone posts up HDTach and HDTune all the time but those benches are just misleading.

I can redo those tests on my raptor if you want... I've done some already; it takes ~2x longer to load games, the copy/paste tests are 4-5x slower. I don't know how I can get more real world than that .