Picking An Ssd

[AddictedGamer93]

Hey guys, ive been browsing Newegg for a while now trying to decide what SSD i want. Basically i want the fastest 100GB - 128GB available for $400 or under.

 

Been eyeballing these two a lot:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220486

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227529

 

just cant decide

[dling]

That OCZ looks great. Speed and price makes that my chose of the two.

[dling]

Heres a review I found. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=911. There are a lot of different reviews out there take your time and do

some reading of as many as you can that are current. I am home today waiting on my new http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148348 .

Good luck.

Edited September 28, 2010 by dling

[malmsteenisgod]

If you're planning on spending that much on an SSD, then take a look at the new OCZ Revodrive that they are preparing to start selling in about a month. It's a PCIe SSD with speeds just over 500MB/s and the price for the 120GB version is said to be around $400-$450. Double the speed and 20GB more capacity over your other options for only ~$100 more. I'd wait for that.

 

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/19015

http://hothardware.com/News/Computex-2010-OCZs-Revo-Drive--Affordable-PCIe-SSD-Performance/

[dling]

If you're planning on spending that much on an SSD, then take a look at the new OCZ Revodrive that they are preparing to start selling in about a month. It's a PCIe SSD with speeds just over 500MB/s and the price for the 120GB version is said to be around $400-$450. Double the speed and 20GB more capacity over your other options for only ~$100 more. I'd wait for that.

 

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/19015

http://hothardware.com/News/Computex-2010-OCZs-Revo-Drive--Affordable-PCIe-SSD-Performance/

 

WOW, Thats just awesome.

[ebarone]

If those are anything like the OCZ Z-Drives, then they're eh... okay. I have a 512 GB Z-Drive at my house sitting unused, because even though it can peak at 800MB/s it hardly ever does. They are not very good with small block random read/writes. The 800 number only shines through when its a large sequential read/write... then its amazing. For my system I just use two Intel drives in RAID 0... if you get two OCZ drives and RAID them, then you'll get garbage collection to maintain their performance. If you're only looking for one single drive, I would look into the Crucial RealSSD C300. dling can back me up on this since I know he just got one (wheres your benches???), but as far as I know its the fastest single SSD available this moment.

[AddictedGamer93]

that Crucial drive looks great! but since my mobo is only SATA 2, how would it compare to the OCZ drive?

[AddictedGamer93]

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[ebarone]

Oops, I was looking into that answer yesterday and got lost on a tangent Sorry... anyways, they probably would perform similarly. The OCZ loses very slightly in most benchmarks, slight enough to be unnoticable probably. Thats even when the Crucial drive is in a SATA II port, so whichever one tickles you most is what you should go with

[Speedway]

I would also add the Intel SSD's into the mix, they are solid performers as well!

 

2 of these in RAID0 = Sick Fast, Trust me! Also, just over what your looking to spend + 60Gigs!!!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167016&cm_re=intel_x25-m-_-20-167-016-_-Product

 

Or get the same drive x 2 rebranded for less! Almost spending the same, getting a huge jump on performance, and size!!! Intel 80GB SSD x 2 in RAID0 ftw

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211412&cm_re=intel_x25-m-_-20-211-412-_-Product

[AddictedGamer93]

Well, the Vertex 2 is one of my favourites right now.

 

Im still iffy on the Crucial C300.

 

There's also the Patriot Inferno.

Here's a review on it:

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=509&Itemid=60

seems like the best performance available on the SATA 2 interface

[AddictedGamer93]

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