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Any 120mm fans anyone would recommend?

I have two 120mm fans on the top of my case, my question is should I get a fan controller for all my case fans a total of four or should I just use the motherboard to control the fans?

I have been doing a lot of reading myself on which SSD to buy. If you are looking for a 6gb/s drive only ones now are the crucial c300 which does very well and is currently the fastest drive. Now if you can wait a month or two the C400 will be which will be even better, and even Intel's 3rd gen...

After looking at my raptors they are old ones only 1.5Gb/s so I should be fine for now.

Thanks for that info, from all the things I read last night it, many people run the C300 on the intel port which does support Trim, does anyone know if I would be able to use Intel's SSD Toolbox on the C300 while using their sata controller? Thanks for the input on the raid0, maybe ill look at...

I am planning on getting an Asus Sabertooth motherboard it has the Marvell 9128 Controller. Now I was planning on getting a C300 128GB but, I have read that the controller is not supporting TRIM at all, and people are recommending running this drive in SATA II. Is this true? Should I look at...

Hrm, I see Ocz Vertex 2 Pro has hardware AES 128, I am sure that would do even better but that drive is rather highly priced. Maybe I will give it a shot when I get my drive.

I guess I should have waited to post sorry. http://paulstamatiou.com/pgp-disk-encryption-safe-for-solid-state-drives http://anthonyvance.com/blog/security/ssd_encryption/

I was wondering if anyone has tried encrypting their SSD at all. Using such software as PGP Whole Disk Encryption. I am wondering if this will greatly reduce the life of an SSD or it's overall performance.

Good thing they offer real world benchmarks, such as windows boot times, Photoshop install and loading.

I would also take into consideration the OCZ 60 GB Vertex 2, it has great write speeds as well. I am stuck on C300 64gb or the OCZ 60 GB Vertex 2. I am leaning towards the C300 it seems more people have problems with Sandforce controllers.

I currently do not own an SSD but will be buying one this week and have been doing a lot of reading on them. C300 even in SATAII is supposed to be faster then any drive on the market so people say...

I would also recommend checking out this site http://www.ssdreview.com/ they have bench marks on a lot of ssd drives and allow you to compare them and over all reviews too.

I am looking for an SSD as my Boot drive as well. From what I have read the Intel drives seem to have the best reliability. I have heard good things about the C300's as well. I was also looking into the OCZ Vertex 2 it's more but the write speed is faster and people recommend it, but it seems to...

So the Sony drives should be just fine?