Need some help picking out an SSD.

[Oruf]

Hello all,
Been trying to catch up on my reading regarding SSD's. If anyone has a good FAQ please send it my way.

Anyway, I am looking to switch to an SSD as my primary boot drive and move my current drive, a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 to file/program storage.

Currently I am running a E8400 at 3.0, a Gigabyte x48T-DQ6, and Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.

What kind of drive do I want to pick up? Read/Write speeds? What brands should I stay away from?

Thank you.

Was thinking along the lines of this;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167027

 

[drescherjm]

I would go for an Intel one. Search this forum. There are dozens of threads about the differences.

What brands should I stay away from?

Its more of what controllers to stay away from. I would buy Intel or SandForce controllers and stay away from everything else. Stay very far away from Jmicron.