Recent content by lgr

I have done my research, or at least some of it. Only through first-hand experience, though, can you translate the raw IOPS and rr/rw benchmarks into real-world usage. Numbers are great and all, but user experience can help out the decision-making process a ton. I know people say "OMG! programs...

I'm in the same situation. I'm frankly getting tired of the X25-M gen2 fiasco at newegg, and was thinking about picking up the Vertex, since it does have TRIM support compared to the X25-M gen1 which does not. However, be wary of the random read/write speeds, which are far worse on the Vertex...