SSD Choices - some help please

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callius

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SSD will be used as my boot disk for win7 + everquest game files approx 10Gb, and if space my 2nd EQ game directory arround 7gb. Also my current flavour of the month game most likely.
Cost isnt the main issue, but value for money is important. Thinking arround 60GB ish in size, i dont benchmark so raid 0 etc isnt to important to me, i am a enterprise storage techy so if i want to benchmark i can use a several hundred disk array, hmm perhaps i will l:p

Approx UK costs below,


OCZ 60GB summit £132.25
OCZ 60GB Agility £140.30
OCZ 60GB Vertex £151.80
Corsair 64GB MLC £126.49
Corsair 64GB P62 £139.15
Corsair 64GB X64 £166.75
Intel 80Gb X25-M £200.09

I was leaning towards the OCZ summit, though the vertex isnt much more,
considering a 120gb agility is 224.25 , some of those seem pricey for 60gb

Any thoughts im really stuck on which to buy.
 
go with the vertex, good controller chip and nice custom ocz firmware.
 
I also like the Vertex because of the firmware. Indilinx and OCZ seem to be working really hard to keep improving the Vertex and other Indilinx based drives with new features and better performance and stability.

The Agility seems to be the same as the Vertex, but with slightly slower NAND memory. But the price difference is so small, I don't see the point. If you'll spend $190 for a 60GB Agility, might as well go ahead and spend the extra $30 and get the better Vertex, which seems to get firmware updates first anyway.

I really like Intel's drives, they clearly lead in performance. But I'm hesitant on buying them due to the lack of firmware updates from Intel that users can apply. Doesn't look like any of the first gen Intel SSDs will ever get TRIM support, which would have me a little irked had I spend that much money on one of them back then.

So I'm pretty happy with my Vertex decision. OCZ is currently testing TRIM support now (even available to the public for those brave enough to use their expensive SSD drives for beta testing).
 
Vertex they work awesome.
And now with the most recent Intel Matrix RAID drivers it will forward TRIM to your Intel RAID volumes....COOL
 
Yea if your going to lay out the cash for an SSD go Vertex, might as well get the premium.
 
The premium is the intel. The vertex is the value choice. I wouldn't really consider any of the others at this point.
 
Yeah it's basically X-25M G2 vs Vertex, those are the #1 and #2 of the SSD's out there right now. I wouldn't bother buying a G1 these days, tho I realize G2 market saturation is not back in full swing right now.
 
I think I'm also going to get a OCZ Vertex pretty soon. Probably a 120gig for me though. I was trying to hold out until the OCZ Colossus came out on the market, but I haven't heard anything recently about it, and I'm starting to get impatient.
 
been using 2 30g vertex for a while, runs pretty spiffy, programs feel instant on. Really the best upgrade for the money atm.

oh i have no games on this new reinstall, and i'm using 15g so far(office applications) on win7 so yea you will have room for games and stuff. (and usually when i played eq2, it was 10g but it was really 3g from log files)
 
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