What are the best SSD's currently on the market?

nogoodreason

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I think an SSD is only worth getting if it's a significant improvement on your current hard drive (in my case, a Western Digital 10,000RPM 150GB Raptor).

Any SSD users on the forums yet? Is there currently a decent and recommended contendor in the SSD market?
 
the crucial m225 series drives or the intel drives are the best options to go for. there's lots of ssd users on here as you can see with all the ssd topics in the harddrive forum section you posted this topic in.
 
nogoodreason said:
How much could I expect to get for 2x 150GB 10,000RPM WD Raptor X's?
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Not allowed to do price checks outside of the Member's Market, which you can't enter yet (See FAQ for details). But I think you would be lucky to get £60-65incl if that tbh :(
 
Yeah... just not worth it, really. Rather hang onto them for an older machine.

I think for now I'm gonna flog my two 500GB drives and buy a 1.5TB with the proceeds. At least then I'll free up a drive slot for my reservoir. I'll look at SSD's again when my Vista RC license runs out in March - hopefully there'll be some better prices by then.
 
I think a 30GB drive is fine for an OS and a few programs, I install games to another drive. So I'm going to see if a 30GB gets released.
 
Best ? Not sure what is classed by that. Fastest all round drive is easily the Vertex Turbo range, it doesnt have any downsides at all. For the size, price and good performance is the M225 and for pure read speeds the Intel G2's.
 
Gills said:
Best ? Not sure what is classed by that. Fastest all round drive is easily the Vertex Turbo range, it doesnt have any downsides at all. For the size, price and good performance is the M225 and for pure read speeds the Intel G2's.
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On the contrary - random writes is where the x25-m shines.
 
I have yet to be convinced whether RAID0 is a good idea or not for these.

Firstly one of the main benefits for SSDs is latency, and RAID0 is not going to improve this.

Secondly RAID operation blocks proper TRIM support (some drives perform this in the background anyway, but I am not sure if this works this works under RAID).

Thirdly the smaller drives have lower performance to start with (for the Crucial M225 the quoted read/write rates are 200/150 for the 64GB drive and 250/190 for the 128GB drive) and hence the gain from RAID0 is reduced.

I have yet to see a proper side-by-side comparison of the two, especially one that takes account of the effects of "aging" and TRIM.
 
Hades said:
Considered two 64Gb in RAID0 for the same price and capacity but significantly higher speed?
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I have

I may wait a week or so, until a benchmark comes out showing the 64 Raid0 first mind :)

Will be a bad ass upgrade from 2x74gb raptors
 
I too was thinking about RAID, but so many people say it is of little benefit, unless you are working with alrge files, which makes sense I suppose.. would you really notice a a few k or even a 1mb file opening up that much quicker.. I doubt it...

I thnk generally raid is only of benefit if your working with larger files, audio, video that run into the 10's, 100's or even 1000's of mb.. unless of course you just like running benchmarks and speed tests...

You would really like to think it would make a big difference, but in reality, normal PC useage would offer very little benefit in a raided setup...

Id also be very suprised if these actually came in stock today!!! eta are always never correct!!!
 
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