Vertex 2E or Crucial C300?

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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I will be using for OS drive + FSX. Running an Intel i5 rig with SATA-2 only.

I have spotted a very good price for the OCZ. I will be running some video editing apps also with bigger drives. Should I be installing my other apps to another hard drive and then capturing/rendering to more separate drives?

Really don't know how to pick between these two. I think I am inclined to go for the OCZ. Any recommendations?
 
A few hours later and I'm seriously wondering am I totally mad? £200 for 120GB. Surely I should wait until these come down in price a bit!
 
depends if you need bigger than 60gb?

if you dont then then 60gb at £111 is quite reasonable.
To make you feel better I paid £150 for the 60gb in July...:rolleyes:
 
You get 7 days to return it. See how it goes, I expect you will be pleased with the difference;)

I have only got the things I load daily on the ssd, all other apps are on a HDD.

reading and writing on the SSD will be significantly faster than the HDD, I would use a large HDD for storage and cap/rend on the vertex.
 
Yeah I will be running some video editing apps too but they will all be installed onto another drive.

SSD: OS + FSX
70GB drive: Other Apps
1TB drive: Video capturing
300GB: Video render + backups

Does that plan seem ok? Any issues with installing apps to other drives? I take it the AppSettings folder under my OS drive user account still stored all the app stuff?
 
Looks a good plan to me.
Yes app settings are still stored in /user just the actual prog files on another drive.
I have not come across any problems with having progs on a mix of drives.
 
Well it dispatched before I could cancel so should have it today/tomorrow.

Any good guides I should read before installing? Does it need to use any particular sata port or anything?
 
Lowest port always best so 0 or 1 if you can.

Great guides on OCZ forum.

Install the latest RST Intel drivers (windows doesn't do this be default) and following the windows optimising guide on OCZ forums for the Sandforce SSD's with reference to prefetch, etc.

Don;t do run after run of ASSSD as it kills the sandforce drives performance and you would need to hdderase and reinstall windows to get it back.

Oh and put ACHI on before installing windows, it's easier that way.

Oh and once your windows boots up in 11 secs and everything opens as soon as you click on it, you won;t ever want to go back to a normal hard drive ;)
 
Thanks for that. If it comes with old firmware how do I do the update? Should I load it as a secondary drive on my current windows install? Maybe it isn't a windows based update?
 
ringo747 said:
Thanks for that. If it comes with old firmware how do I do the update? Should I load it as a secondary drive on my current windows install? Maybe it isn't a windows based update?
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Update can be done from booting up from a windows 7 32 bit disk (64 disk doesn't work) and select repair and then dos prompt. Have the firmware on a usb stick and follow firmware instructions.

Or just run it from windows on your current hard drive and then put the ssd as your first drive and install windows.
 
ringo747 said:
A few hours later and I'm seriously wondering am I totally mad? £200 for 120GB. Surely I should wait until these come down in price a bit!
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The times that I have changed my mind due to the cost/GB compared to a mechanical drive has still been the deciding factor in not buying into SSD's just yet.

It does not bother me too much how long it takes Windows to load as I turn on my PC and then I'm off to make a cup of tea or something whilst it boots anyway.
However I think that I would appreciate the possible differences when using Photoshop and opening and closing large images etc.

For me I am happy enough to hang on and see what happens early next when Intel's G3 drives hit the market.

When I used to run FSX I couldn't remember it making excessive use of my HD..? It did seem to require a faster dual-core CPU and GPU to enhance its playability. But I never spent that much time with it to perhaps appreciate what a faster HD could mean.
 
So the drive will be installed tonight hopefully. One question - do you enable ACHI for just the one port that the SSD is connected to or is it a setting that applies to all SATA ports?

In other words can I have:

Port0: ACHI
Port1: Normal
Port2: Normal

?
 
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