Best SSD around $700

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Building a high end gaming setup with a friend He wants to purchase the top of the line SSD for around that price point while maxing out his #/gb ratio. I read all the G2 Intel drives support TRIM and are very good. Lately I have hears the Patriot Torqx and OCZ Colossus drives are even better? Anyone shed some light on this, parts will be purchased within the coming weeks.
 
The best consumer level SSD is an Intel G2. Get two smaller capacity and RAID0 them. It'll be unbelievably fast. One thing to remember though, most reviews focus on the continuous write/read scores. Those aren't nearly as important as the random read/write and IOPS, which is where Intel is second to none.
 
Get a X25-M 160Gb G2 for the OS & Apps, and 1Tb WB Black for other crap and you should be close to that.

$500+ for Intel drive
$100+ for WD Black
 
For around $700-800, the best is probably the Intel X25-E Extreme 64GB SSD. On the consumer level, you can get the X25-M 160GB for $250-300, and it's still blazing fast.
 
PC_User said:
For around $700-800, the best is probably the Intel X25-E Extreme 64GB SSD. On the consumer level, you can get the X25-M 160GB for $250-300, and it's still blazing fast.
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I'd LOVE to know where you can get a 160Gb for that price. I'm pretty sure you mean you can get an 80Gb for that price. Unless you're talking some other currency that USD!
 
i got my X25-M G1 as an upgrade on my notebook for $300, but i have not seen them for that price for sale.
 
X25-M is the best for the price. For ~$700, RAID 0 a couple for 320 GB.

X25-E is the absolute best apparently. For ~$700, you can get 64 GB.
 
PC_User said:
For around $700-800, the best is probably the Intel X25-E Extreme 64GB SSD. On the consumer level, you can get the X25-M 160GB for $250-300, and it's still blazing fast.
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quixotic said:
X25-M is the best for the price. For ~$700, RAID 0 a couple for 320 GB.

X25-E is the absolute best apparently. For ~$700, you can get 64 GB.
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yea... where do you guys find these 160gb G2 intels for $250-350
 
C-rizzle said:
I'd LOVE to know where you can get a 160Gb for that price. I'm pretty sure you mean you can get an 80Gb for that price. Unless you're talking some other currency that USD!
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My mistake. Meant to type 80GB. I too wish I could get the 160GB for $300.
 
PC_User said:
My mistake. Meant to type 80GB. I too wish I could get the 160GB for $300.
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i got my 160GB x-25m g2 for ~$300 on a combo deal with my case :D

and as others are saying, i also say go for one of the intels for the ssd and get a mechanical drive for storage
 
No mention of the ne OCZ Colossus? Supposedly has 14,000 IOPS in some of the bench marks.
 
If size is of no concern, the fusion-io cards are sickening fast. Direct attached storage. I think they are about $799 for 80GB. Only downfall right now is that they aren't bootable but they supposedly are working on that.
 
Size is a concern. Really 150GB would be the minimum. I am between the Intel G2 and the upcoming OCZ Colossus.
 
BucBrew said:
Size is a concern. Really 150GB would be the minimum. I am between the Intel G2 and the upcoming OCZ Colossus.
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well the good news at least the new firmware updates the write speed to 100MB/s for the 160 gig X-25M
 
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