Thanks for the info guys but if you had to pick between the Corsair and OCZ which would you go for ? I can get both at really good prices.
What kind of price are you talking about, because the Crucial is £100 for the 64gb, which frankly I can't see even a cheap trade price anywhere beating, unless you're talking second hand or, importing or something. The Crucial is essentially a rebranded OCZ drive for a lot cheaper.
Greebo, Surfing might write many small files, but I fail to see how you'll be needing to write any faster than your connection speed is, otherwise what would it be writing, considering we're talking about 5mb/s on the very fastest connections and no ones using that speed web surfing its a non issue.
WebSERVER is the only area related to web use where the intel excel's, and that kind of usage has nothing in any way to do with general web surfing at all.
Theres still only a few benchmarks the Intel wins, it loses as many as it wins. Small random writes are certainly important but its not the be all and end all. The fact your average home user has a hardrive giving 0.5mb random 4kb writes, a Crucial/Ocz will give you closer to 16mb and a Intel will give between 25-40depending on how used the drive is(until trim works on them).
Out of benchmarks I've still not seen any evidence the Intel is actually faster, I've not seen any general use real world apps be so heavy on random 4kb writes that the Intel becomes way faster. Load times, no, content creation, no, copying files, no, surfing the net, no, opening Firefox, no.
An ssd, with no access times and any ability to do decent random read/write is a HUGE improvement.
A Corsair/OCZ/Crucial will easily give great windows performance in many area's and certainly give you the snappy instant feel.
THe corsair has pretty terrible 4kb random write performance, yet in all those same benchmarks it has same load times as the Intel. Random writes, important, yes, 0.5mb enough? not even close, is 5mb enough, is 15mb, I don't know, I just can't see any evidence of real improvement in real world use between the OCZ/Crucial and the Intel, benchmarks, sure, they're designed to do so.
