SSD - Which One?

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bLiTzJoN

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Ordering one next week, but torn between either 160gb G2 or P256 Corsair. I don't believe I could go wrong with either pick, so help me out folks. Which one? Or, do I consider a different brand altogether?
 
I would prefer the Torqx over the Corsair due to it's warranty but that's just me. I'd personally pick the G2160 as that's basically be noted as the king.
 
The warranty of the Torqx almost seems too good to be true. One of the Newegg reviews stated the warranty was on a lil piece of paper with little details. I've never purchased any Patriot hardware, so I've had no dealings with them. I would agree the G2 is the "safe bet", but is it the right one for me? It's bout $200 cheaper than the Torqx and Corsair - to have the extra 76gig is pretty tempting along with faster write speeds than the G2. The selling point for the G2 is the degration over time seems minuscule followed by the Corsair compared to most other SSDs on the market. I don't know where the Torqx stacks up. MaxPC gave the Torqx a kick ass rating, but in the Dream Machine dropped in a Corsair P256 even over the X-25. Anyone have any experience with any one of these drives?
 
Patriot is a good brand. They have a rep here on the forums as well.

Yes the Torqx and others best the G2 in seq write speeds, but the G2 blows them away at random writes, which is what matters in general day to day computing. Not that you can tell apart 0.09ms from 0.31ms, but you get the idea :p
 
Just finished reading bits and pieces (okay, skimmed then read the conclusion) of one of Anandtech's SSD articles. I'm leaning towards the G2 despite the lack of space. Next year if the prices drop, I can look at upgrading. My laptop has a 160gig drive now and while I use VM images for development purposes I still manage to stay within my space limitation.
 
Just get a VelocityRaptor and call it a day. You wont have to worry about the degration over time.
 
Intel X25-M G2 160Gb is what I went with. $470.07 @ CostCentral. Backordered, but I'm okay with a little wait to save $200 compared to Newegg.

I did chuckle on the Raptor comment, regardless of speed, my laptop runs hot all the time as it is with a Toshiba drive - I can only imagine how my laptop would run if I managed to fit a Raptor out of its tray into it. I've heard they don't fit anyway even if they are 2.5 formfactor - maybe that's a myth.

I opted for Intel simply for compatibility (Win7 & TRIMing << still learning bout this), reputation and lowest in degradation over time. I'd like more space, but at least it's a lateral move to my current 160g drive and not less. Next year, I'll scope the playing field over and go with a larger drive then if needed.
 
From what I've read, all indilinx based drives perform the same, regardless of brand. AFAIK, TRIM isn't yet released for any of the drives mentioned in this thread. All drives have some sort of performance recovery function (eg. garbage collection on indilinx based drives). Personally, if this was for a desktop, I'd pick up at least two smaller indilinx-based drives for RAID0, since a single Vertex was underwhelming, IMO; if it was for a laptop, I'd pickup an Intel G2; a netbook, a single, small indilinx-based drive, 30GB.
 
This is [H]ardForums not fatwallet.
$500 will get you 2 x 80GB G2's in Raid 0 for 500MB/s.

The mechanical harddrives also degrade in performance when you put more data on the disk. Thats why people short stroke them.

VR isn't bad. I have one and 300GB's was more then enough for my OS and games, but its the same price performance problem.

Is the extra performance of a VR worth twice the price of a 640GB/1TB Black for about half the space?
Is the extra performance of a SSD worth twice the price of a VR for about half the space?

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the intel 80gb g2 is really fast
it install vista ALOT faster than my WD Black 640gb AALS ! !!!
 
Few weeks of waiting [for stock] and finally got Win7 installed on my Intel 160gb G2 and VERY pleased with the performance. Photoshop CS4 up'n'run'n in a few seconds, restoring a VM from suspended state in about 10 seconds... all I can say is, I CAN BREATH!! LOL
 
OCZ vertex.

Almost as fast as the G2, but you dont have to worry about OCZ bricking your device every time they want to update it.

I am staying away from Intel until they get their shit together.
 
OCZ vertex or the Intel for TRIM support. I don't know why you'd pick anything else.
 
bLiTzJoN said:
Few weeks of waiting [for stock] and finally got Win7 installed on my Intel 160gb G2 and VERY pleased with the performance. Photoshop CS4 up'n'run'n in a few seconds, restoring a VM from suspended state in about 10 seconds... all I can say is, I CAN BREATH!! LOL
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Where'd you buy it that it was in stock? Been eyeing Amazon and Newegg but they fly off the shelves really quick.
 
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