What SSD to get?

[Shane]

Right ive had enough,My hard drive is so damn slow its realy getting to me now....It never used to be like this slow.

So im gonna take the Plunge and get a SSD Drive.

Which of the following would you get?

Id realy like to keep it around the £130 ish mark,Must be 60Gb or more,30Gb ot less wont cut it for me.

1)Corsair Reactor R60 SSD 60GB, 2.5", SATA II£131
Read: 250MB/s
Write: 110MB/s
Cache: 128MB
Controller: JMicron JMF612

2)Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue £122
Capacity:64GB,
Write Speed:up to 170 MB/sec
Read Speed: up to 250 MB/sec

3)Corsair Nova Series£149
Capacity:64GB
215MB/s Read,
130MB/s Write
64MB cache

4)OCZ 60GB 2.5" SATAII Solid Series£131
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/176037
200MB/s Read,
120 MB/s Write
64MB onboard Cache

5)OCZ Vertex Series 60GB£139
64MB Cache
230MB/s Read,
135 MB/s Write


6)(Other-Please Specify)

So thats what ive come up with so far,Others are more expensive....appreciate any help. :good:

 

[jarlmaster47]

I use the ocz vertex 60gb. its AWESOME. I love it soo much. it has trim, its fast, its quiet, its energy efficient. My comp boots up in 17 seconds thanks to that ssd

 

[porterjw]

+1 for the OCZ Vertex. I purchased one for my new build a few weeks back and it's great. I know a lot of folks love the Intel...X25(?), so you may want to look into that as well if it's available in your area.

Just to put things in perspective with the Vertex... After POST and GRUB, as soon as the 'Loading Windows' screen is on my monitor (where the colors merge to form the logo), I'm at a usable desktop opening programs about 5 seconds later.

 

[Twist86]

I don't own one myself but I agree with the above 2 comments. That was the drive I thought about getting...till I realized I need at least 80GB for a primary so I decided to wait

 

[tossy]

I would like to go for Corsair Reactor R60 SSD 60GB

 

[Shane]

Looks like the Vertex is popular ,Il await more replies.

also found these two....what i realy want to find out,what is the best controller? I heard that early SSDs had stuttering? i dont want one that has that controller for obvius reasons

Also these two drives have 128mb of cache vs the 64mb that the above ones have,would it make all that much diffrence?

Corsair Performance Series P64
64GB SATAII
128MB Cache
220MB/s read
120MB/s write
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/175718

64GB Samsung

Read Speed of 220MB/s
Write Speed of 120MB/s
Onboard 128MB Cache
Samsung Controller

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductID=1087338&source=froogle

 

[Feuerfrei.x]

I use the Corsair Nova v64 64gb its pretty decent

 

[Aastii]

I'd go with the vertex for the reasons posted above.

however imsati is right that some prefer the Intel ones. Not sure why though, but I know when either I have the money for one, or the prices come down, I'll be getting myself an OCZ one, provided they are still the quality they are now compared to the competition

 

[Cromewell]

+1 for the OCZ Vertex. I purchased one for my new build a few weeks back and it's great. I know a lot of folks love the Intel...X25(?), so you may want to look into that as well if it's available in your area.

Just to put things in perspective with the Vertex... After POST and GRUB, as soon as the 'Loading Windows' screen is on my monitor (where the colors merge to form the logo), I'm at a usable desktop opening programs about 5 seconds later.

I think the X25-M still is the fastest drive (it does have slower write speeds though) but the OCz Vertex is up there. The X25-M does cost more though. Also, last I heard you need to run the wiper program that's included with the Vertex occasionally to prevent stuttering.

 

[Twist86]

I think the X25-M still is the fastest drive (it does have slower write speeds though) but the OCz Vertex is up there. The X25-M does cost more though. Also, last I heard you need to run the wiper program that's included with the Vertex occasionally to prevent stuttering.

Just a thought but is speed really the only important thing here? I mean if you got say a 128GB SSD that was slower then the X25-M for the same price would it be worth while for the loss? I mean your still faster then any HDD on the market and most cases even in RAID but now you have the option to install 3-4 10GB games + windows + programs all one a single disk vs losing that speed installing to a mechanical drive (unless your using multiple ssd)

*edit*
Another thought is do you still get the double standard on sizes? Aka 1000 vs 1024 difference?
*end of edit*

Good example of my question is this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139137

Not quite as fast as in the Intel or OCZ but still leagues beyond my 500GB drive


This is the one thing that bugs me all the time about SSD....sure the speed is great but I prefer all main games/programs to fit on it (and I usually install 4-5 games at any 1 time) then have my 500GB as a "downloading" drive for all the crap that passes through my systems (movies/music/cache/etc)

 

[lunchboxx]

I have the Kingston 60gb SSDNow, it was only 140USD

It's not one of the faster ones, but it has 200mb read speeds CONSTANTLY never drops below 198mb/sec, it also has Windows TRIM feature.

The low cost also leaves room for a possible future raid-0 set up.

 

[Cromewell]

Just a thought but is speed really the only important thing here? I mean if you got say a 128GB SSD that was slower then the X25-M for the same price would it be worth while for the loss? I mean your still faster then any HDD on the market and most cases even in RAID but now you have the option to install 3-4 10GB games + windows + programs all one a single disk vs losing that speed installing to a mechanical drive (unless your using multiple ssd)

*edit*
Another thought is do you still get the double standard on sizes? Aka 1000 vs 1024 difference?
*end of edit*

It depends on who you are. For some people the speed is all that matters.

Yes, I think you still get the 1000 vs 1024 thing, Kingston says

* Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions and is not available for storage.

 

[bomberboysk]

I think the X25-M still is the fastest drive (it does have slower write speeds though) but the OCz Vertex is up there. The X25-M does cost more though. Also, last I heard you need to run the wiper program that's included with the Vertex occasionally to prevent stuttering.

The vertex doesn't need a wiper program, the vertex has garbage collection and TRIM(was the first drive to natively include both of these, with the 1.5 firmware).

The vertex is one of the fastest drives on the market for its price...although at this point in time i would wait for pricing to drop on the new vertex 2's, with that awesome sandforce controller that they have on them.

Stay away from anything that says Jmicron on it....

 

[Twist86]

It depends on who you are. For some people the speed is all that matters.

Yes, I think you still get the 1000 vs 1024 thing, Kingston says

Appreciate that. Will wait till the end of the year to upgrade to a SSD...with luck prices drop on the 128gb+ drives by then

 

[linkin]

The vertex doesn't need a wiper program, the vertex has garbage collection and TRIM(was the first drive to natively include both of these, with the 1.5 firmware).

The vertex is one of the fastest drives on the market for its price...although at this point in time i would wait for pricing to drop on the new vertex 2's, with that awesome sandforce controller that they have on them.

Stay away from anything that says Jmicron on it....

My mobo has a Jmicron RAID controller

I voted for the vertex too..

 

[diduknowthat]

My mobo has a Jmicron RAID controller

I voted for the vertex too..

Haha only for SSDs. Jmicron made the first SATAII SSD controllers. They didn't include enough cache on the controller and drives that used it were plagued with stutter issues.

I voted for Vertex, OCZ SSDs all the way!

 

[Shane]

Right okay its between these two now then.



OCZ Agility 2 50GB 2.5" SATAII Solid Series Solid State Drive 10K IOPS
http://www.ocztechnology.com/produc...te-drives/ocz-agility-2-sata-ii-2-5--ssd.html

And

OCZ Vertex Series 60GB
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid_state_drives/ocz_vertex_series_sata_ii_2_5-ssd

They both have good and bad points,The Agility is faster...but £10 more and 10Gb less capacity.

The Vertex write speeds are slower,But has 10Gb more space and is £10 cheaper

Atm im leaning towards the Vertex....From its specs it looks like an amazing drive!,Im not 100% sure but i think its faster than the Intel X-25 80Gb too

 

[jevery]

diduknowthat recently got the 60GB Agility which he benched at 198 read
http://www.computerforum.com/175415-bought-ssd.html#post1471060

Legit Reviews got 213 from the 120 GB Vertex (Edit: Old)
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/954/5/

Here's one with the Sandforce controller
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1208/7/

I'm getting 231 from the Intel X-25
http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff354/21weber42/Computer/HDTest-2.jpg

About the same for read

 

[Shane]

hmm....I am tempted by the Intel X-25 due to its capacity,But its realy realy pushing it budget wise....i set myself a budged of £130 orig,sort of broke that and started looking at £159 drives.But the Intel X-25s are like £189 and thats without delivery...just too much tbh.

 

[87dtna]

The best ones to get are the OCZ vertex or the intel 80gb. Both of them will kickass so whichever you can find cheaper or if you need the extra 20gb just allow a few more buck for the intel no problem.