SSD for booting

[d3stiNy]

Im looking for a SSD just for booting... I have 2 blue WD 320 gb hdds with RAID0, but I want something faster for my new build and was thinking that a small capacity SSD would feed my desires

So I am wondering what is the best/cheapest/smallest SSD for windows 7 64 bit?
Also, is it worth it to get a SSD with the 2 hdds I already have?


Thanks in advance

 

[lowteckh]

Vertexes have a good following.

 

[engiNURD]

Whether its worth it or not is entirely up to you. Personally, a single SSD wasn't worth it for me, but two in RAID0 really flew.

Read up on SSDs before you take the plunge. There's some good articles on Anandtech/storage, and there's a ton of threads to read on the OCZ support forums. The Vertex drives are popular because they were the first affordable drives to come out that didn't use the problematic jmicron controller, and they performed on par or better than the Intel SSDs. The OCZ Vertex, Super Talent UltraDrive ME, G.Skill Falcon, and Patriot TorqX all use the indilinx controller, so any of those are good. The 120/128GB or higher tend to perform faster due to higher memory density (and supposedly larger cache).

Here's some benchmarks to check out:
http://www.alphaq.org/enginurd/hdd/ocz_vertex.html