Yes, another "Which SSD is better for me" thread.

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Calavaro

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I have been way out of HW building for too long, but now ready to get a small SSD for my laptop (which sports a 80 GB, 5400 rpm HDD). The bottleneck is clearly my HDD and I am sick and tired of it. Win7 takes forever to load as well, as does many simple tasks that require HDD access (eg. loading programs, saving large files).

The choices I have, since I do not want to spend too much and selection here is meager.
40 GB. SSD INTEL (SSDSA2MP040G2R)
64 GB. SSD KINGSTON (SNV425)
64 GB. SSD KINGSTON (SNVP325)

The Intel SSD is the cheapest. 3 years warranty.
The Kingston SNV425 is 14% more expensive and has 60% more space. 2 years warranty.
The Kingston SNVP325 is 23% more expensive than the SNV425. Not sure what is different other than price (reviews suggest some read/writes are quicker). 2 years warranty.
I am willing to buy either one of these depending on your recommendations. I am not worried so much about storage space (2 TB array externally) but 64 GB would be nice if you say the Kingston's are "a-ok".
Please do not suggest other SSD's as they are either unavailable or out of my price range.

The reviews I have read to not include these low capacity drives it seems, so an additional question I have is thus, are the lower capacity drives (eg. 64GB Kingston) as fast as their big brothers (eg. 128GB Kingston) which is show in many reviews?

Many thanks.
 
I have a similiar question. I'm also looking for a new OS drive, but in addition to those pointed out by Calavaro, I'm also interested in the OCZ Vertex 2 60Gb SSD. I mainly work in Photoshop, Cinema 4D, some 3DS Max simulation, Flash and do programming.
 
The Kingston SNV425 is slower than the Intel in terms of response time and random read/write speeds.

Low capacity drives tend to be slower than their larger capacity brothers.
 
Danny Bui said:
The Kingston SNV425 is slower than the Intel in terms of response time and random read/write speeds.

Low capacity drives tend to be slower than their larger capacity brothers.
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How much faster is the Intel? I can't seem to find anything online.
 
The low capacity drives are definately slower than the high capacity ones which are always tested, but they are still way faster than a normal laptop drive so I don't think you'll be disappointed in the performance, no matter which one you get.
 
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