Why Intel?
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I got the OCZ on offer too.
The read and write are just numbers for marketing, just like low CO2 cars, some 1080p TVs.
The intel will be better overall, the theoreticall max speeds are zero indication of how good it really is.
I checked some reviews and decided that the 60gb OCZ was too good value to miss at £145.
Sequential Write speeds are the only area where the vertex is faster, and in fact the real benchmark numbers for the Vertex 60GB are only around 100MB/s sustained write on large files, so it doesn't have as much of an advantage as it appears.
It's still a good drive though, only problem is that it's usually more expensive per GB than the Intel - for the offer price it's a decent buy. That and the extra 15GB on the Intel makes it a lot less hassle to manage.
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It's worth bearing in mind that the end user is unlikely to notice these speed differences in real-world everyday use. These drives (sorted 2nd gen SSDs with TRIM and no stutter, etc) will all remain screamingly fast compared to a mechanical disc.
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You mean the one thats been closed?
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I upgraded from a Samsung F1 to the OCZ 60gb.
Hell of a difference
. I paid £145 (plus £5 for an internal caddy) for the ocz on the promo, which was a fantastic price.
Hell of a difference
. I paid £145 (plus £5 for an internal caddy) for the ocz on the promo, which was a fantastic price.
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Basically because the Intel drives are better at 4KB read/writes which the OS will be doing a lot of. The Vertex's might be faster for copying large files but unless you have another SSD that you're copying the files to the other drive will be the bottleneck anyway, so for everyday normal use the Intel drives should be faster.
Weather that increase in speed is noticeable and worth the extra money I can't say though.
I had/have both of these drives. The Vertex is just as fast as the x25-m at running a desktop OS.
The vertex was a fair bit faster at things like software installation and photoshop scratch-disks.
Where the x25-m excels is in £/GB and reliability. Both my Vertex's would Vanish off the OS occasionally if I was forcing them to do allot of heavy writes.
Putting them in raid 0 fixed this issue oddly.
People put so much weight on 4k writes due to the J-micron fiasco but 4k reads (And reads in general) far outnumber 4k writes.
Anything > 5mb/s is plenty for 4k writes as far as an OS is concerned, any more will make VERY little difference.
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Another common myth is that people think high sequential speeds are un-important for OS.
The main things that make a difference are Sequential speed and access times. IOPS doesn't really matter as windows will very rarely exceed a cue depth of 8, and if IOPS really were that important people would be screaming about how much faster their x25-m was in the the 'real-world'.
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