Intel or Crucial SSD...?

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Right, i've had enough!
I've been lurking around for a while now pondering over what SSD to buy.
I think the time has come to finally put it in to practise and buy 1.

So im wondering, should i get intel or crucial.
Now i know intel is faster but i believe they dont support TRIM as of yet?

Crucial i believe are in the process of sorting out TRIM and a release is imminent?

Anyway, i MUST order 1 now and im sick of waiting!
I've got 3 HDD's in my system and replacing the WinXP OS drive with one fo these will mean lower noise and hopefully even lower heat. That is one of my main reasons of buying one. I also see it as an investment as i will be installing Win7 at a later date.

So whats the pros and cons of the intel vs crucial?
And which is better suited for a WinXp SP3 system?

Muchos Gracious
 
intel if you can afford

crucial if you are not bothered and you can think of a better use for the difference
 
Crucial, the intel wins in SOME benchmarks, "maybe" some important benchmarks, in reality you wouldn't remotely come close to being able to tell the difference.

Two Crucial 64gb's in raid is far far closer to Intel's 4kb random performance(where the intel is strong) and crucifies the intel in sequential/random mid to large read and writes, and frankly you can't tell the difference between one crucial and two in raid 0. Theres a significant drop off in performance gains in real world use once you get a certain level of performance. To be honest, the crucials pass that even as a single drive, an Intel in real world performance, is no faster, neither is two crucials in raid.

So the very easy answer is anything over the Crucial in price is just a waste of money, trim should be supported eventually on basically all Indilinx drives and Intel's also, its also not a huge performance deal either, again other than benchmarks you'll be hard pressed to feel the difference in a "trimmed" and non trimmed drive.
 
they are pretty much the same £/GB now that the 64GB crucials have gone up to £145, So Intels are the ones to go for (unless you do something specialist that you need sequential write performance for)
 
drunkenmaster said:
Crucial, the intel wins in SOME benchmarks, "maybe" some important benchmarks, in reality you wouldn't remotely come close to being able to tell the difference.

Two Crucial 64gb's in raid is far far closer to Intel's 4kb random performance(where the intel is strong) and crucifies the intel in sequential/random mid to large read and writes, and frankly you can't tell the difference between one crucial and two in raid 0. Theres a significant drop off in performance gains in real world use once you get a certain level of performance. To be honest, the crucials pass that even as a single drive, an Intel in real world performance, is no faster, neither is two crucials in raid.

So the very easy answer is anything over the Crucial in price is just a waste of money, trim should be supported eventually on basically all Indilinx drives and Intel's also, its also not a huge performance deal either, again other than benchmarks you'll be hard pressed to feel the difference in a "trimmed" and non trimmed drive.
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+1

....and the Crucial and the Intel now compliment each other...

If you need 64gb get the Crucial, 80gb Intel, 128gb Crucial.
 
photoshop said:
Do the crucials play fine in WinXP systems?

PS. When we expecting TRIM to be rlsed?
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It sounds like you don't understand TRIM (from this and another post elsewhere).

Read the sticky at the top of the forum and the MSDN Blog that is linked to in there.

Basically TRIM requires;

1. The OS to support it
2. The drive firmware to support it
3. The hard drive controller and drivers to support it

It's not a case of releasing TRIM, it's about having all the components on your machine supporting TRIM, and then it works. And because it's all invisible to the user then we'll be inundated with "how do I know TRIM is working?" question :)

[edit: And I don't think there are any plans for MS to support TRIM in XP]
 
I quite like the look of OCZ Agility atm though after hours of reading and comparing, already has trim with a firmware update available now, has indilinx controller and 3 years warranty. It's £150 for 60gb if you know where to look, not sure why OcUK don't stock them anymore though.....
 
aarste said:
I quite like the look of OCZ Agility atm though after hours of reading and comparing, already has trim with a firmware update available now, has indilinx controller and 3 years warranty. It's £150 for 60gb if you know where to look, not sure why OcUK don't stock them anymore though.....
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Up until recently the Crucial has been far more competitively priced than this drive - it's still cheaper, but not much in it now.
 
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