OCZ SSD - Solid or Vertex?

[phinix]

I want to buy SSD for my gaming rig, but not sure which one to pick.
Looking at 32GB - Solid is cheaper and pretty fast I think. Vertex, not available yet, but is faster, also more expensive.
Is it worht to wait and buy Vertex? I just want to use it as a silent storage for XP and few games. No programs, just games and internet.
I believe that Solid after partiton alignment and all tweaks would be enough.. what do you guys think?

 

[Zarf]

If you are prepared to do the tweaks, may as well save some cash and go solid.

 

[phinix]

what do you mean prepared?

 

[sja360]

what do you mean prepared?

well theres the option to wait and buy the newer ssd's which wont need tweaks and will perform good, or tweak and maybe not get it perfect and buy the cheaper ssd's at the moment.

 

[phinix]

but those tweaks don't seem to be hard... right?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

what do you mean prepared?

your obviously not prepared or have any knowledge on the current SSD's that are available. first thing you shoudl do is find out what an SSD is and how it will benefit you. if you knew your stuff you would not even have to ask this question and would have bought an SSD already, but seeing as you have to ask the question then clearly you need to take a step back and assess your own knowledge in hard drive tech and stick to regular drive until you learn more about SSD's in general.

i know i may sound harsh and blunt but im in a rush and hopefully my advice will save u lots of time money and headache.

 

[Rroff]

In short the current generation of SSD is really only at its best when handling larger files for continous access... for booting an OS off them or games (where traditionally you can be loading lots of small files - tho some games use big file packages) then your best waiting for the next generation.

 

[phinix]

nice...

 

[Adam123]

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41168

fyi

 

[bloodline76]

your obviously not prepared or have any knowledge on the current SSD's that are available. first thing you shoudl do is find out what an SSD is and how it will benefit you. if you knew your stuff you would not even have to ask this question and would have bought an SSD already, but seeing as you have to ask the question then clearly you need to take a step back and assess your own knowledge in hard drive tech and stick to regular drive until you learn more about SSD's in general.

i know i may sound harsh and blunt but im in a rush and hopefully my advice will save u lots of time money and headache.

 

[Adam123]

Bloodline @ 3.4Ghz on 1.2v WTH lmao.....

 

[jammir]

small files arnt a problem if you have the money to chuck at current SSD's but as someone above said if you have to "ask" then atm the SSD tech is not for you as even with hardware raid your not gonna get fast boot time as you then have to wait for the raid card to boot

Iv used a 2x intel ones in a raid 0 and they run great boot windows in a flash everything loads really fast e.g. photoshop CS4 loads in less then 2sec iv had it load in less then a second most apps will load faster even with the ocz ssd (with a hardware raid)

I dont think the cost atm makes up for the cost as my setup has set me back £500 for just 120gb of space on SSD but im crazy iv just got my adaptec 3805 and orderd 4 more 60gb Apex drivers

 

[phinix]

your obviously not prepared or have any knowledge on the current SSD's that are available. first thing you shoudl do is find out what an SSD is and how it will benefit you. if you knew your stuff you would not even have to ask this question and would have bought an SSD already, but seeing as you have to ask the question then clearly you need to take a step back and assess your own knowledge in hard drive tech and stick to regular drive until you learn more about SSD's in general.

i know i may sound harsh and blunt but im in a rush and hopefully my advice will save u lots of time money and headache.

obviously you sound harsh and obviously you don't know what knowledge I have... I just asked for experience of others with those Solid drives, real life experience...

 

[domyboy]

Im going to be buying SSD'S soon. With all the problems of the early SSD'S I think I will just bite the bullet and go for intel. However if by next week (when im going to purchase them) the new OCZ SSD'S are out then I might just purchase them along with a good raid card instead.

 

[phinix]

I wish these VErtex show up next week, be never know...

 

[Angst]

I might just purchase them along with a good raid card instead.

i thought that most motherboards supported raid now

 

[EverybodyelsE]

I have the 30GB Solid Series SSD as my system drive and it's pretty good initially but after the tweaks on the OCZ website (link on the product page) it is awesome!

I will also be getting the 30GB Vertex for my system drive and using the Solid as my main audio production drive.

Get whichever you want!

 

[phinix]

i thought that most motherboards supported raid now

yes, but hose controllers don't have onboard cache. Separated raid cards have onboard cache - well, those more advanced (read: above 200 quid)...

 

[Charlie49]

Look at samsung SSD drives with SLC, available cheaper than solids and lot faster, go with samsung.

 

[JonJ678]

I've got a 30gb corev2 (almost identical to solid but back a generation) and it's excellent. Partition alignment solves the majority of the issues with windows, and a couple of registry tweaks solve the rest. Not really any knowledge needed, just follow the howto on oczforums.

Vertex should work better out of the box as the cache on it will absorb the stutter some people see. It still benefits from applying the various tweaks, but you're likely to be quite happy with it out of the box.

Under linux it's much easier to move things onto ramdisks, so I've put /tmp. /var/log and /var/tmp into my ram. No frequent tiny writes getting in the way of sequential reads so no stutter, at all, ever. Like it very much.