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Solid state HD + cheap HD or top of the range HD?

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Aloone_Jonez:
I'm going to upgrade from an old IDE mechanical hard drive for something a bit faster and am torn between tow options: should I buy a single fast 10000rpm Raptor hard drive or a small 30GB solid state drive and a cheap 7200rpm drive?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149434

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160730
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160730

I like the idea of a fast solid state drive but 30GB won't be enough so I'll need a separate mechanical drive for my files and just keep the SSD for the OS.

I know that the price of SSDs will probably fall more than traditional hard drives in the coming years so I could just buy the Raptor and upgrade to an SSD later.

I'm not one for always having the latest hardware but I know that the hard drive is the main speed bottleneck and I'm better off upgrading it than anything else.

I've just got my brother's old motherboard, here's the spec:
Asus A8N-VM CSM
AMD Athlon 64 Processor running at 2GHz.
1GB RAM - don't know what sort, I've been told it's not very good so will probably get some faster RAM too.
Sapphire Radeon X300SE 256MB RAM

Much better than my old POS but not top of the range I know.

EDIT:
I'm looking for a 2GB DDR 400MHz RAM module. Two of the RAM sockets are fucked and leaving only two to upgrade.

Don't get me wrong, even 1GB is probably enough for me at the moment but I don't want to get to the stage where I want to buy more RAM but no one sells it because it's obsolete.

davidnix71:
The Raptor. That blows away the others. Wait until sshd's get cheaper and faster.

worker201:
I assume we're talking about a desktop model here?  Because on a laptop, there are other considerations.

Aloone_Jonez:
It's a desktop.

So far it's one vote for the Raptor. I might go with that, I'll see what others have to say. The thing that attracted me to the SSD is the seek time is 0.1ms which is 42 times less than the Raptor, but it's so expensive for a tiny 30GB drive and the read time is similar.

piratePenguin:
os on an ssd = fast as fuck os

but if you wait you can even (needlessly?) throw your films and music on a bbigger, cheaper and possibly faster drive.

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