Which SSD for me?

sidefxv1 · 22 Sep 2010 at 09:43

I'm looking at a final upgrade for the system in my sig. Considering grabbing an SSD and Q9400. This thread is about which SSD.

I'm in NZ so listing prices probably won't mean much to everyone here. I'm looking at those around 128GB and the following are all around the same price and within my budget. Can anybody suggest which they would recommend and why?

Crucial C300 (Marvell 88SS9174-BJP2)
OCZ Vertex 2 E (SandForce SF-1200)
Corsair F120 (SandForce SF-1200)
Corsair X128 (Indilinx IDX110M00-FC)
Corsair Performance Series P128 128GB ()
Corsair Nova Series V128 (Indilinx IDX110M01-LC)
Kingston SSDNow V+ Series (Toshiba T6UG1XBG)

I think I'll probably want to carry this drive over to a new system when I replace my whole current system, so I guess I'd also like to know do any of the above have any advantages in that respect? Am I right in think the ones with SATA3 are more future proof than the SATA2 ones? Only one with SATA3 looks like the C300 though and I'm leaning towards the Vertex 2E... looks like it has some good read and write performance and good reviews. Any thoughts?

reygjabla · 22 Sep 2010 at 10:03

First 2 on your list would be my choice.

fretted · 22 Sep 2010 at 10:32

reygjabla said:
First 2 on your list would be my choice.

+1

Podmonkey · 22 Sep 2010 at 13:11

Has anyone around here actually used one of the kingston ssd's? The price is very tempting (£80 for 64gb etc). Would be quite interesting to see the price/performance ratio of them all.

reygjabla · 23 Sep 2010 at 08:55

Check the Kinston SSD Forum and you will know why its that cheap. Regardless, its still faster compared to an ordinary mechanical hard drive.

Swinbag · 23 Sep 2010 at 09:30

I'd go for the Crucial or the Vertex, personally I've got a 128gb C300 on SATA3 and it's brilliant.

If you are looking to move to a new system then a C300 wouldn't be a bad choice at all given the SATA3 compatibility - It just depends what you'll be using the SSD for primarily, seeing as the write speeds on the C300 are not as good as the vertex.

manishpatel80 · 23 Sep 2010 at 14:29

I have the C300 64gb with sata 3 and the performance on the reads is amazing. The writes are slower, but I used as an OS drive and so need read speeds the most and I get 7.9 in the windows index and atto gives a max read of 387mb/s which is mind blowing when I consider my WD Rapter was doing about 110mb/s read. WOW comes to mind.