SSD Question

[vroom_skies]

I'm thinking of buying a ssd, but need some help first.
Money is not a huge concern, but I'd still not like to totally waste it.

Now I'm having a hard time find reviews and speed ratings and all that.
What I plan on doing is just getting a 32gig or lower drive and use it as my OS drive, I may also throw some software on there as well.
What I'm having a hard time with is knowing if sata is worth it over ide?

I'll just leave it at that for now.
Thanks for all you help,
Bob

 

[mjz_5]

an and tech has allot of reviews i would check them out first. i would get the serial ATA version, a lot less cable to mess with

 

[vroom_skies]

Thanks, I'll go check them out.

How would you go about throwing the ide version in a desktop anyways. You would need a separate power cable no?
Also, is there a way to mount these in a 3.5 inch bay?

Thanks
Bob

 

[Waldorf]

Several vendors sell 3.5" SSD drives. However most of the drives are in the 2.5" or 1.8" form factor. When you start to talk about SSD drives, the form factor really doesn't matter anymore. With hard drives, the physical size of the drive platters (and hence their rotational velocity) does matter when talking about performance.

You can buy normal laptop hard drive to desktop hard drive conversion kits to mount the SSD drives in a 3.5" bay if you really want to. However, SSD's really don't need to be mounted. They don't get hot like hard drives, there are no moving parts like hard drives, and you don't have to worry about the torque of their motors moving the drives around in the case.

I lust lay my SSD on the bottom of my case.

IDE versions are going to use laptop style hard drive connectors. You'll need to purchase a laptop to IDE converter. They usually run under $10US.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=latop+to+ide&x=0&y=0

The two best places for review are tomshardware.com and anandtech.com. They have given SSDs the most coverage. You might also want to check out nextlevelhardware.com.