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I want to get a SSD for my laptop. But I don't want to spend the money on the Intel drive. Is their a SSD drive similar to Intel's in terms of performance under $200?
 
zod96 said:
I want to get a SSD for my laptop. But I dn=on't want to spend the money on the Intel drive. Is their a SSD drive similar to Intel's in terms of performance under $200?
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OCZ Vertex/Agility
 
That $200 price cap limits your options. You're looking at low capacity and slightly lower performance. The Kingston is nice, but since it's half an 80gb x25-m, it's half the performance. The 64GB Indilinx drives are also a little slower than their larger bretheren.

60 GB OCZ Agility for $204 after rebate?

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

If you can find a better deal for an Indilinx drive, go for it. OCZ is nice, but I'm willing to wait a little while for my firmware updates if it saves me money.

EDIT: It looks like the deal for the Kingston isn't quite as sweet anymore. They're generally $120+ these days.
 
Vertex, Agility, and Kingston would be the only drives I'd consider. Anything else would be uncivilized.
 
The popular 40gb Intel based Kingston drive is on sale again for around $85 when combined with Bing cashback.

Note: it sold out within an hour the last time it was at that price.
 
The Intel drive really isn't anymore expensive than the OCZ drives in terms of price per GB.
 
maybe not, but there's 20more gb with the intel SSD, and a lot of folks are sick of the disruptive firmware updates, and lack of TRIM / GC on all Intel based drives. intially, Intel said anyone using their controller, but not Intel branded drives = no TRIM. I'll believe Kingston gets TRIM when they announce it.
 
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sabregen said:
maybe not, but there's 20more gb with the intel SSD, and a lot of folks are sick of the disruptive firmware updates, and lack of TRIM / GC on all Intel based drives. intially, Intel said anyone using their controller, but not Intel branded drives = no TRIM. I'll believe Kingston gets TRIM when they announce it.
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Like OCZ didn't have any mishaps with firmware updates. I think Intel is a solid offering and while I got lucky and missed the first troublesome TRIM update, the current one works as advertised with no issues. So G2 drives DO have TRIM, and G1s have strong GC which keeps their performance in like-new state according to reviews.
 
plac said:
its really confusing how many "series" OCZ has.. .i found like 10 different lines on newegg..

i've narrowed down to (3) 120GB OCZ choices.

OCZ Agility Series OCZSSD2-1AGT120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Retail $349 after rebate
OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Retail $409 after rebate
OCZ Vertex Turbo OCZSSD2-1VTXT120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Retail $479 after rebate
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With the Agility getting TRIM, it's now a good option. The Turbo isn't worth the cost difference. You'll get 10MB/sec better on stated specs, over the standard Vertex, that's not worth another $80, IMO...but to each his own. If you don't need to ever run the laptop in a RAID-0 config (and therefor use GC), I'd go with the Agility.
 
sabregen said:
With the Agility getting TRIM, it's now a good option. The Turbo isn't worth the cost difference. You'll get 10MB/sec better on stated specs, over the standard Vertex, that's not worth another $80, IMO...but to each his own. If you don't need to ever run the laptop in a RAID-0 config (and therefor use GC), I'd go with the Agility.
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this would be for my PC, not for a laptop. it will work right?? thanks for the tips on the turbo version.
 
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