Best Solid State Drive

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maverick786us

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As prices drop and capacities increase it makes sense to upgrade the slowest part of a PC with 21st century technology.

I am thinking of purchasing an Solid State Drive and use that for Operating System and Games, rest of the 2 HDs which are already there will remain for storage purpose. What is your suggestion?

What will be the perfomance boost? Should I go for Corsair or Western Digital? Which one of these 2 will yeald better perfomance with good price?

Thanks in advance
 
Corsair's SSDs are going to be pretty expensive from what I last heard. And not as good as the Intels.

I am pretty sure WD doesn't have any SSDs out yet, though I do remember reading something about them interested in getting into that tech...their still my choice for HDDs though. :)

I still think the Intel X25-M 80GB is the best one to get for enthusiasts who want to spend a little. I have one -- I'm not just spouting out what I've heard -- it's amazing. Expect to have your OS fly. My Windows 7 loads in like 15-20 seconds. It shuts down in maybe 4? All my applications just open a second or two faster. It was worth it for me.

Best bang for your buck might be an OCZ Vertex (32GB?), though this was information from back in May/June.
 
The 120gb Vertex is the top performer out of all of the sizes-quite a bit faster than the 30/60gb models, FYI.
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Best? X25-E.

Best price/performance ratio? Any Indilinx based drive. (Vertex, Falcon, Ultradrive ME, Patriot Warp, etc)
 
Well there are basically two "leaders" depending on how much maintenance you want to be doing:

- Best realistic consumer drive that doesn't require frequent user intervention is the Intel X25-M

- Best realistic performing consumer drive that does require frequent user intervention is any of the indilinx controller based SSD's (Tho I'd say OCZ would be the best of the indilinx bunch if you chose to go that route).

The middle of the ground performer that doesn't require hand holding would be the Samsung's, and are arguably a better choice for notebooks then either of the above.
 
What type of maintenance is required? This is a new one to me...
 
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