Reccomend me an SSD

Q

qtnguyen87

n00b
Joined
Jan 3, 2011
Messages
5
I'm looking for an SSD as my main drive for the OS and a few games I mainly play (WoW and CoD:Black Ops). I have a 2TB drive for everything else. So whats a good bang for the buck ssd? Not looking for anything large. I'm thinking in the 60+ GB. Oh and System specs are as follows:

Abit IP35 Pro
Q6600@3.6ghz
4GB ram
Crossfire HD 4870 1gb

thank you
 
Are you looking to upgrade immediately, or can you wait a little while. The next gen drives should be trickling in this month and the next, I suggest you wait for just a bit. On the other hand, it is a good time now to buy last gen drives at a very nice discount.
 
The only issue is that WOW has become a huge size game, i think its well over 20gb now, probably getting close to 30, so just on that i would recommend to go over 100gb, something like Intel X25m 120gb would be my choice, or wait for Intel G3 / Crucial C400, around a month wait.
 
As an Amazon Associate, HardForum may earn from qualifying purchases.
Just to add my 2 cents if you play wow you will definitely want to look for something in the 120+ range. I have an Intel x25-m 80gb and with just win7 pro and wow and a few other small programs I only have about 9gb left free.
 
Ah thankss for the replies guys. I'm not in a rush to upgrade. Just wanna get a taste of what SSD has to offer. So I will have to look in the 100+GB if my main game is WoW. Oh btw I'll be installing Windows 7 Ultimate. I guess I'll wait a little bit longer and see if the new drives will drive down current gen SSDs. I appreciate the feedbacks.
 
I have the same Mobo as you and processor but i've got 8GM ram. I spent some time trying to figure out what to do about the HD situation as I wanted an upgrade. I had a Raptor OS drive that died on me suddenly so it was time for an upgrade.

After reading hundreds of reviews of OCZ and Corsair drives, most had about 60% 5star, 13% 4, and 7-10% 1 star (but some would have given a 0 if the could). Also, if you are looking at the Vertex 2, they are not truly Vertex 2's anymore. They downsized the chip to 25nm from 34 and the speed drastically reduced with it and reduced reliability. If those were the only drive to choose from I would have not gone the SSD route. LUCKILY along came INTEL offering their X25M SATA SSD 80GB for about 30% more but with all 5star reviews and the reliability, I think it is worth it!

Here is a little comparison of 80GB drives I did for you. If money is no obkect then the PCI-E card would be the way to go! Look at those speeds!!!!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100008120%20600038486&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&CompareItemList=636%7C20-167-031%5E20-167-031-TS%2C20-227-688%5E20-227-688-TS%2C20-227-685%5E20-227-685-TS%2C20-233-161%5E20-233-161-TS%2C20-227-597%5E20-227-597-TS

I had a little trouble with the install. My Mobo is giving me fits. It won't allow me to make any keyboard inputs after the HD post screen passes, so if it says "press any key to continue" or "strike any key to boot from CD or DVD" or if Windows says "windows didn't shut down correctly, which mode do you want to reboot in, and you make the selection... I'm stuck with whatever is the first choice or whatever is the default when the timer stops. Wish I could get this fixed.

I use Technet for my OS. I got Win 7 Ultimate 64 w/ SP1. It would load, go through the partitioning stuff and then get to the part where it said "expanding files 0%..." and it would never move pass that. I tried everything and no go. SO I moved the drive to a brand new machine I just built and did the install on that. I got it to the part where it asks for the user name and computer name, powered down the new machine and moved the drive back over to the ip35-pro based machine to finish. From there all worked well.

I've only been using this for about a day but I like it already. I don't know how I'm going to setup the files like "mydocs" and stuff. I would think since those are what I access the most it would make sense to have them on the SSD, would it not? On the otherhand, I I'm still leary of drive failure and this is uncharted waters for me. With the old HD's if it failed in Windows I could save the files 99% of the time in Linux (for some reason it just works better!)

So, I think I am going to keep most files on the SSD and make backups to NAS and fileservers.

Let me know what you decide. I also hear that OCZ and Corsair may be having "problems" filling the rebates as some are "misplaced" once they arrive....
 
I've considered running RAID 10 (4 x 1TB) which would give me a 2TB array that is fast and redundant. A drive could go down and I wouldn't miss a beat. I can do this for about the price of an 80GB SSD. OR you could go with (8 x 500GB) Western Digital Green re-certs (which I DO trust) running RAID 10, you would still have 2TB transfer speeds should be about 2x faster than the other array. These drives are the Green drives which save energy as well.

Energy and heat is another factor for all of this. If you need to heat your office then the 8 disk array would be good:D
 
this might be totally wrong, but wouldnt running 8 energy efficient drives be just as bad or worse than running 4x 1tb? i think ur best bet would be to run an SSD if you're not too worried about data security (meaning ive read that a good amount crap out with in the first few months)
 
No doubt either array would draw a lot of energy and produce a good bit of heat. But it all comes down to what you are looking for. I wanted speed and reliability as it is for an office machine so I went with SSD. I looked at the reviews and decided that the Intel was Hands down the best choice as there is yet to be any DOW or dying in the reviews. Intel SSD all-the-way!!!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top