oh_fubar Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 exactly what I want to - I have a caviar black 640GB for game 'n such. for OS and apps I'd like to purchase a SSD. now they are superbly expensive. and by my count I need at least 50GB. that's w/o all the temp files for recoding things. addon another 10GB. for fun - mmmmm 1TB lol costs twice as my pC all together! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820227500 ha! (just for note - in no way am I thinking of purchasing this)... I need a sensible SSD about 100GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820167016 seems a bit more tolerable then 375$ for another one. should I get it? or should I go for the bigger 100GB? could someone plz ell me why this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820139137 is so little compared to intel's 375$? I read the intel as 219 with the rebate Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 could someone plz ell me why this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820139137 is so little compared to intel's 375$? The Intel drives are vastly superior in random writes (and are higher capacity hence more flash)...that's pretty much why they hold a premium over most other drives. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Yesterday's Hardware Roundup included two reviews on the Kingston 30GB SSDNow V Series Boot Drive that is being offered as a SSD boot drive at a reasonable price. The are some caveats so be sure to read the reviews before making a decision. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Any of the top SSD's should meet your needs for an OS/App drive. What you're looking for in this case is: 1. Random Access Speed, which will vary from .1 to .3ms (all fast enough) 2. IOPS, if you're looking to do any heavy database/server transactions or video editing 3. Reliability, stuttering can really bog down your system performance 4. Price and space First, I'd look for how much space you're going to need. I have 30GB space out of 120GB on my Corsair P128, but that's with Windows 7 Pro x64 with Microsoft Office 2007, SQL Server 2005 and 2008, and Visual Studios 2005 and 2008... plus a couple other programs and a Windows XP Pro x32 VM. You won't really need more than a 128GB SSD unless... You're looking for IOPS: 1. Intel X-25M leads it for MLC based SSD's 2. Mushkin Enhanced IO comes next, along with... 3. Crucial M225 and OCZ Vertex I highly recommend the Corsair P128 if you're looking for reliability and only Random Access Speeds (the sequential Read/Write speeds are a bonus, but not really that important with the Spinpoint F3 drives out). If you want something more (with better IOPS), then the above choices should help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuri Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Seems like lots of people have/recommend the OCZ Agility/Vertex series. What about its Solid 2 series? It's even cheaper than the Agility. Will there be a big performance difference? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Any of the Solid/Core series have HORRIBLE random write speeds and you will see stuttering in normal use. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zertz Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Any of the Solid/Core series have HORRIBLE random write speeds and you will see stuttering in normal use. The Solid 2 is Indilinx, not JMicron Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 The Solid 2 is Indilinx, not JMicron Ah, sorry about that. In that case the Solid 2 is likely a great drive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zertz Posted March 11, 2010 Posted March 11, 2010 Seems like lots of people have/recommend the OCZ Agility/Vertex series. What about its Solid 2 series? It's even cheaper than the Agility. Will there be a big performance difference? In actual usage, probably not. The biggest actual benefit of SSD's is access times and random read/write performance and even the lower-end Indilinx drives are good at that. The Agility is often on sale with a pretty good MIR though so the price difference is often negligible Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted March 11, 2010 Posted March 11, 2010 THe 120GB Agility I just looked at was on sale for 309 bucks on the egg last week! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBan-Swe Posted March 11, 2010 Posted March 11, 2010 (edited) I building a new HD setup for some day now. I use 2 Corsair SSD Extreme X32 32GB. read/write speed up to 220MB/135MB sec on single drive in raid 0 , Read is over 400mb\s and write around 170mb\s and 0.1ms Computer seem to be more stabile with SSD. i can also use less voltage to cpu with only SSD Tempfiles internet cockies and stuff + bigfiles i use 2 WD Black dualcore and 1 Samsund F1 also in raid 0 2+1 different drives works very good together Read\write 310\327 mb/s very fast Turned a lot of stuff that SSD dont like off. SSD in raid 0 dont support TRIM RobBan Edited March 11, 2010 by RobBan-Swe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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