Intel X25-V 40GB

[Shane]

Was thinking of buying this to give my system a boost,Its my HDD thats bottlenecking everything....

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190701

Think its worth £90?

From what ive read,It just slightly slower than the 80Gb model,But not by much.

 

[bomberboysk]

I'd personally get a vertex for an OS drive, the X25-V has horrendous write speeds:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160730

 

[Shane]

hmm i dunno,30Gb isnt going to get far,40Gb would be the minimum id want realy so i can at least install windows to it...then Bad company 2...everything else would be installed on my 250Gb standard drive.

What about this...

http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase10.9&prodID=B244349

Intel X25-M Solid-State Drive, 80GB SATA II 2.5", MLC, High Performance, 34nm Product Line

 

[linkin]

I'd wait until SSD's are getting into the 200+gb range with decent prices before buying one.

 

[Shane]

I'd wait until SSD's are getting into the 200+gb range with decent prices before buying one.

Um yeah probably about 2 years before they start dropping lol....they have already been out quite while now and have not moved from been expensive

This seems more reasonable... 64Gb,Decent Read/Write speeds.

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=33319&tid=frooct

at £140 its cheaper than the 60Gb vertex and has more space! + Free next day shipping

# Read: Up to 220MB/sec
# Write: Up to 120MB/sec

what ya think Mr Bomber?

 

[jevery]

Keep in mind when choosing the size that the life of an SSD is limited by write cycles - Particularly so with the MLC variety. The more free space on the drive the less often the TRIM function delivers a write cycle to each remaining cell. You can easily move your libraries to a storage drive, but I don't think you can prevent all the little temp internet files, thumbnail caches, etc from being written to C:

 

[bomberboysk]

Um yeah probably about 2 years before they start dropping lol....they have already been out quite while now and have not moved from been expensive

This seems more reasonable... 64Gb,Decent Read/Write speeds.

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=33319&tid=frooct

at £140 its cheaper than the 60Gb vertex and has more space! + Free next day shipping

# Read: Up to 220MB/sec
# Write: Up to 120MB/sec

what ya think Mr Bomber?

Ill tell you right now, i would just put all games and such on a separate storage drive, and use the ssd for critical apps and boot, as less used space=less used cells for wear leveling algorithms to use. I'm not sure if that samsung drive supports TRIM or garbage collection, which i know the vertex's with 1.5 firmware do natively.

The kingston SSDNows are nice drives:
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=44957&category_id=741&manufacturer_id=0

Although...the vertex's really are the way to go IMO:
http://www.cclonline.com/product-in..._id=741&manufacturer_id=0&tid=oczssd2-1vtx60g

 

[diduknowthat]

See if you can pick up an OCZ Agility drive. I just got one and it's awesome for the price!