Any new SSD's coming soon. £350 to spend now

The Asgard · 24 Mar 2010 at 08:33

Just about to pull the trigger on a 160GB X-25M G2. Anything new on the horizon around £350 that I should be waiting for? Are Intel about to release a replacement?

The drive will be used for software development, 160 is a nice size for this.

Running a X25V 40GB along with a 300GB VRaptor on my games machine and I have been very impressed with the performance.

Cheers

bledd · 24 Mar 2010 at 11:07

I was about to create a similar thread, but was going to say the realSSD 128gb

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-006-CR&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427

Has a far higher write rate than the Intel.

The Asgard · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:11

bledd. said:
I was about to create a similar thread, but was going to say the realSSD 128gb

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-006-CR&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427

Has a far higher write rate than the Intel.

I have looked at that drive and it does look good. Does the additional write performance actually make a difference in the real world?

I like the Intel because of the additional space over the 128.

The Asgard · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:24

Pulled the trigger on the 160. Should be slightly faster than my Intel 40GB which should be fine for my needs.

Zarf · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:27

I don't expect anything new out until 25nm NAND in Q4.

The Asgard · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:30

Zarf said:
I don't expect anything new out until 25nm NAND in Q4.

Thats reasurring. I have to do a full Windows 7 Reinstall so it seemed like a good reason to move over to SSD. Expensive but should help with my productivity.

r3loaded · 24 Mar 2010 at 13:37

Crucial RealSSD destroys pretty much everything out there. Especially when you pair it with a SATA 6Gbps controller.

crinkleshoes · 24 Mar 2010 at 18:44

Not in random read/writes, only sequential.

To the op... out of curiosity, what made you pick the intel when the OCZ LE is noticeably quicker and still within your budget? Just the increase from 100->160GB?

The Asgard · 24 Mar 2010 at 19:19

crinkleshoes said:
Not in random read/writes, only sequential.

To the op... out of curiosity, what made you pick the intel when the OCZ LE is noticeably quicker and still within your budget? Just the increase from 100->160GB?

Pretty much and see below

"If you don't want to crunch through the math, Intel estimates that the 80GB X25-M will last for five years with "much greater than" 100GB of write-erase per day. That's a relatively long time for much more data than most folks are likely to write or erase on a daily basis.

Actual drive lifespans aside, Intel rates the X25-M's Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) at 1.2 million hours. That's competitive with the MTBF rating of other MLC-based flash drives and equivalent to common MTBF ratings for enterprise-class mechanical hard drives. "

I also have the 40GB Value version and have been very impressed with the real world performance over my VRaptor 300GB.

cainer · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:40

i got the 100Gb LE and im very happy with it, getting more than advertised speeds of 286 read 272 write

the size suits me fine as i wanted it just for O/S apps and a few choice games. it only has 93.1Gb of useable space but with everything up n running and crysis+dirt2+enemy territory installed i still have 57.0Gb spare