OCZ Vertex 2 SSD-Thoughts?

^ Good find. It's acually less w/rebate. 1.6 pr GB is a good deal compared to the ususal.
And the Vertex 2 ranks right up there with the top of it's class.
 
I was looking at SSDs the other day and the OCZ Vertex 2 certainly caught my mind. For an SSD it's pretty cheap, but there are loads of good reviews about it out there. Haven't made up my mind whether I'm going to buy it yet or not.
Can anyone tell me the difference between the OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G and the OCZSSD3-2VTX120G? Is the only difference that one is 3.5" and the other 2.5"? Which is better?
 
If you get it, I'd be curious to know how well it performs. I have a Vertex and an Agility (60 GB each), and call me crazy, but I swear Win7 was faster when it was on the Agility:/
 
Id honestly not recommend ditching the SSD idea,Because think about it...you could spend all that money on a shiny new pc,and regurdless of its specs...its always going to have a standard hard drive been a bottleneck all the time.

Trust me theres a huge diffrence with having an SSD.

Just get the 60GB version..its plenty for Windows,Antivirus & a few apps..i still have 36GB free on mine.


What are your planned specs btw?
 
Nevakonaza said:
Id honestly not recommend ditching the SSD idea,Because think about it...you could spend all that money on a shiny new pc,and regurdless of its specs...its always going to have a standard hard drive been a bottleneck all the time.

Trust me theres a huge diffrence with having an SSD.

Just get the 60GB version..its plenty for Windows,Antivirus & a few apps..i still have 36GB free on mine.


What are your planned specs btw?
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Well, I need quite a bit of space on it because it's going to be my OS partition, with Windows 7, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE.
Here's the link to my thread:
http://www.computerforum.com/189405-lucass-8th-rig-edc08.html#post1580197
 
Nevakonaza said:
Id honestly not recommend ditching the SSD idea,Because think about it...you could spend all that money on a shiny new pc,and regurdless of its specs...its always going to have a standard hard drive been a bottleneck all the time.

Trust me theres a huge diffrence with having an SSD.

Just get the 60GB version..its plenty for Windows,Antivirus & a few apps..i still have 36GB free on mine.


What are your planned specs btw?
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Idk but the Windows 7 that I installed took out like 30GB+ of space and I have no idea how that happened. :(
 
My thoughts.
Nevakonaza said:
Trust me theres a huge diffrence with having an SSD.
Just get the 60GB version..its plenty for Windows,Antivirus & a few apps..i still have 36GB free on mine.
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x2 on both of those.
lucasbytegenius said:
Well, I need quite a bit of space on it because it's going to be my OS partition, with Windows 7, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE.
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We all know how big 7 is. I'm not sure of the other 2. My thought w/o research is not more than about 5 gb each.
Intel_man said:
Idk but the Windows 7 that I installed took out like 30GB+ of space and I have no idea how that happened.
Ethan3.14159 said:
Page files... that's it. You can move those to any available drives.
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In a nutshell +1^. So something else going on there. User folders can get quite large-temp/user(including admin)/default/public/program/ can be relocated to hdd during 7 install. All but the admin acc can be moved after, altho it's a longer process. As far as pagefile, that's deleted at shutdown, and can be disabled, managed(to 0) as some prefere to call it, and again as Ethan said - relocated to hdd. If you have enough RAM, you may not need pagefile since 7 will only swap if it feels like it needs the physical RAM. But then who can understand the algorithms 7 uses to determine that. That's why I think having 2 or more gb RAM than you use, is a good idea with ssd. It lends to more choices in managing pagefile. There's pro's and cons to all sides of ssd-pagfile dos and don'ts. My though is, if I don't need it, and it stops some writes, then why not 0 it out.

lucasbytegenius: Some ^ may seem a bit off topic, but I wanted to add that when building a system w/, or just adding an ssd, having consideration on the amount of RAM may be usefull -depending on what your plans are for pagefile.
Using the Windows 7, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE options available, you should be able to keep your ssd c: to a minimum size. I'm in agreement that 60gb would be plenty even if you have other bigs you want on there. Perhaps use your existing drive(s) for remaps/programs/storage? Consensious I've read says about 80-85% fill capacity to keep its speedy health.
 
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When are the new family of SSD's supposed to be released? When they are, will the prices drop on the current SSD's?

I have been looking at getting a Vertex 2 120gb drive for my rig. What is the life expectancy of SSD's? How much more maintenance is involved with SSD's? I am the kind that likes to turn it on and use it and not worry about it. What should I do or not do with SSD's?

I know that 120gb is more than enough for a few games and applications. I am guessing that I can install the games and applications on a second hard drive. Is there anything special that has to be done in order to do that?
 
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I have been looking at getting a Vertex 2 120gb drive for my rig. What is the life expectancy of SSD's? How much more maintenance is involved with SSD's? I am the kind that likes to turn it on and use it and not worry about it. What should I do or not do with SSD's?
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Both of mine have a MTBF of 1.5 million hours. There are no moving parts, so not much really to worry about. As far as maintenance they actually perform better if you don't Defrag them - just let them do their thing.
 
driverdj2000 said:
The vertex 3 is due for release soon.
Plus its sata 3 so thats what id wait for.
or this one has recieved fantastic reviewshttp://www.memoryc.com/products/des...SSD-read_355MB_sec-write_70MB_sec_/index.html
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The Crucials are fast when attached to a 6Gb/s port.
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Benny Boy said:
My thoughts.

x2 on both of those.

We all know how big 7 is. I'm not sure of the other 2. My thought w/o research is not more than about 5 gb each.

In a nutshell +1^. So something else going on there. User folders can get quite large-temp/user(including admin)/default/public/program/ can be relocated to hdd during 7 install. All but the admin acc can be moved after, altho it's a longer process. As far as pagefile, that's deleted at shutdown, and can be disabled, managed(to 0) as some prefere to call it, and again as Ethan said - relocated to hdd. If you have enough RAM, you may not need pagefile since 7 will only swap if it feels like it needs the physical RAM. But then who can understand the algorithms 7 uses to determine that. That's why I think having 2 or more gb RAM than you use, is a good idea with ssd. It lends to more choices in managing pagefile. There's pro's and cons to all sides of ssd-pagfile dos and don'ts. My though is, if I don't need it, and it stops some writes, then why not 0 it out.

lucasbytegenius: Some ^ may seem a bit off topic, but I wanted to add that when building a system w/, or just adding an ssd, having consideration on the amount of RAM may be usefull -depending on what your plans are for pagefile.
Using the Windows 7, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE options available, you should be able to keep your ssd c: to a minimum size. I'm in agreement that 60gb would be plenty even if you have other bigs you want on there. Perhaps use your existing drive(s) for remaps/programs/storage? Consensious I've read says about 80-85% fill capacity to keep its speedy health.
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I've got an 80 GB drive right now as my OS partition, and I install quite a bit of programs on all three OSs. For example, my Windows installation is 8 GB but my program folder is 12 GB, due to all that I have installed. And I use most of the programs. The Windows partition is 58 GB, and I have 18 GB free. The Ubuntu partition is 12 GB with 4 GB free, again due to programs. The OpenSUSE partition isn't even on that drive due to lack of space, it's taken up 5 GB of its 16 GB partiton so far, and I've hardly installed anything on it. I store my documents and things on two dedicated drives so that I access them in any of my OSs. So, I'm getting a 2 TB drive for my docs (which take up 120+ GB) and judging by the usage of my OS drive believe I will need a 120 GB SSD to be future proof.
 
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