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AirPower4ever

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So which would you guys pick?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100008120%20600038510%20600038463%20600038483&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&CompareItemList=636|20-231-377^20-231-377-TS%2C20-233-124^20-233-124-TS%2C20-227-550^20-227-550-TS

Price not a hiderance, I plan on using 2 SSD's in RAID0 as drive C, will be using for Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, gaming and maybe photoshop in the near future.

I plan on still using my old Seagates (in RAID0 as well) as drive D. Would it be better to have the Windows Media Player, Itunes and possibly the Photoshop programs on these SSD drives, but the actual music files (library) and pictures on the Seagates?

I do back up my files every other day. If there is another SSD drive someone wants to suggest, please do so. I picked these for the high transfer rates and the high IOPS.

Let me know guys, thanks
 
This must be too tough for people, no replies TD

Does anyone have an opinion which is better or they are all good?
 
The Vertex 2 drives will give slightly better performance than the other two, since OCZ has a special kisskiss reelationship with Sandforce.
 
AirPower4ever said:
This must be too tough for people, no replies TD

Does anyone have an opinion which is better or they are all good?
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I am less likely to respond to a question when the OP does not mention the specific products. I don't like to follow links without mention of what the link is to. And your link was ridiculously long and looked like it may be broken.
 
totally agree

make sure the link is actually a hyperlink and/or add the actual names and model numbers of the items.

I see the stupidly long link that isnt clickable and that you have only been on the boards for 10 months AND you say price is not an issue.

Price is aways an issue... if you are willing to over pay for something than you wouldnt be asking for help on a forum, you would go and buy the most expensive name brand item you can find and act like you have the best product you could get....
 
For my sentence "So which would you guys pick?" is a "what is your opinion on these products?" question. I wanted opinions on which product has better reviews, characteristics, usages, if opinions from individuals are drawn to a certain one of these, etc. There are some who would just dismiss these three just based on cost and that is what I did not want to happen. By adding the phrase "Price not a hindrance", I wanted to remove that from any equation from peoples minds that would just dismiss these three. I just wanted opinions which product (of the 3 in this case) would people most go after. Has anyone had bad experiences with either one or all?

So here it is again;
Corsair Force CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT
G.SKILL Phoenix Pro Series FM-25S2S-60GBP2
OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G

I am looking to see what opinions from users about these 3 and why one over the other. tfa, thank you for your input. Have you used the Vertex 2 before? "Better performance" in what regard? Read, Write, IOPS, bandwidth, etc? Can you narrow it down some more, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 
For that capacity of SSD, I'd go with a 64GB Crucial C300 over a Sandforce drive. That is mainly because the Sandforce drives have some strange deterioration in write performance after having written a lot of data. But if you are writing a lot of compressible data, the Sandforce might have slightly better performance. Among the Sandforce drives you listed, I'd go with the G.Skill Phoenix Pro, since the performance of the three models is about the same so I'd make the choice based on the track records of the three companies SSD lines.
 
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Thank you for the details J4200. I have also read some literature on the deterioration and forwarded my concerns to someone who can actually provide data on how bad of a performance hit it has to some SSD's. I do know that testing is underway (or will be soon) so hopefully when I get some data, I can share among everyone else.

Thanks again

Anyone else?
 
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