Intel/Kingston confustion.

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Both are very fast, but Intel will edge out the Kingston in most tests (in random 4k in particular). the review should show that, and I doubt there's a big difference between Kingston 64 and 128.
 
Thanks. Someone passed me a link to the OCZ Agility 60GB ($134 after promo and MIR) so it's in the running as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227461

EDIT: I'm taking the Intel out of the equation for budget reasons. So it looks like the real race is between the OCZ and Kingston.

EDIT 2: Ok, that was a crap load of reading but I've decided on the OCZ Vertex...

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10009850

I picked it for the faster NAND vs the Agility and better IOPS vs the Kingston.
 
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Just an update. Got the Vertex and love it. Reads and writes are as advertised, which is something I was worried about considering I'm using the SB750 south bridge. One issue I did run into was considerable boot time with AHCI enabled (hangs on the "starting windows" screen for upwards of 60 seconds). I have a Gigabyte 790x board and the more I poked around the more I saw AMD based Gigabyte owners with the same issue. read/writes are the same in IDE and AHCI so I just switched back to IDE which doesn't suffer from the boot issue. I tired the "Gigabyte Sata II" controller (I think it's a JMicron) and while it doesn't suffer from the boot lag in AHCI, it does drop a good bit in read/writes.

Anyway, reinstalled Win7 in IDE mode and I'm very happy with the upgrade to the SSD and the Vertex.
 
Why did you reinstall Win7 in IDE mode when you can just switch the modes back and forth in the bios?
 
I installed and uninstalled so much stuff trying to figure out what the boot lag problem was that I figured I'd just do it again as insurance.
 
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