Best 100-200GB SSD

Out of interest what's the difference between

OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot 120GB 3.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

Read Speed: 285MB/Sec, Write Speed: 275MB/Sec, Flash: MLC, Controller: SandForce SF-1200, Buffer: 0MB

and

OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G)

Read Speed: 285MB/Sec, Write Speed: 275MB/Sec, Flash: MLC, Controller: SandForce SF-1200, Buffer: 0MB
Average rating of 5.0

Just the size? or is the perfomance better on the recommended one? The bigfoot is on offer week only atm
 
With the BigFoot you won't need to buy a SSD 3.5" to 2.5" adapter, that means you can install the drive straight away into your case.

With C300, you would need to get that adapter. However I would certainly go for Crucial C300 if you don't use your computer for saving lots and lots of data. I own the C300 64GB for booting, loading progams or playing games and its really quick.
 
coldfused said:
With the BigFoot you won't need to buy a SSD 3.5" to 2.5" adapter, that means you can install the drive straight away into your case.

With C300, you would need to get that adapter. However I would certainly go for Crucial C300 if you don't use your computer for saving lots and lots of data. I own the C300 64GB for booting, loading progams or playing games and its really quick.
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Problem is my board is only Sata 3GB/s. I guess I could buy a sata 6 pci card and use it with that though? wondering whether it's worth it or not.
 
If price was not an option, would recommend the Revodrive. Don't know why people don't seem to buy them. Other than the Ibis there is nothing to touch them in performance, it is a stunning drive. When the v2 hits the streets I will buy that one too. Its the best drive I've ever bought :)
 
rush_syndrome said:
If price was not an option, would recommend the Revodrive. Don't know why people don't seem to buy them. Other than the Ibis there is nothing to touch them in performance, it is a stunning drive. When the v2 hits the streets I will buy that one too. Its the best drive I've ever bought :)
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Trim isn't supported on the revodrive v1?
£314 is too much over my budget for £120gb :(.
 
Revodrives don't support TRIM and judging by the OCZ forums, they're a bit of a nightmare to set up and use because of compatibility issues. On some motherboards they only work if the main SATA controller is disabled, which for most people isn't an option cos they need other HDDs or optical drives.
 
There's one place I have found where you can buy the RevoDrive x2's. But it's ~£330 for the 100GB model, and ~£410 for the 160GB. The latter is definitely better value for money than the other, and the performance of these drives is sensational. But still, it's £410!
 
The OCZ Vertex 2E gets my vote.

Installed like a dream even on an older mobo like mine, with the standard W7 Microsoft AHCI drivers and the benchmarks are up there with the best of them (so I'm not convinced that the latest Intel RST drivers make "that much" difference ... talking ver. 9 here).
 
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Don't know why people don't seem to buy them. Other than the Ibis there is nothing to touch them in performance, it is a stunning drive.
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People don't buy them becasue you can build a two drive RAID0 array using your onboard SATA controller that's cheaper, faster, more flexible and doesn't have any of the revodrive issues setting up.

The X2 and Ibis start making sense because they RAID four drives together and have a bit higher throughput cap than your onboard (~650MB/s on ICH10), but even there for the same price you could buy a better RAID controller than the one used in the Revodrive/Ibis and get better performance. 4x64GB c300's on an decent SATA 6Gb RAID controller will do 1300MB/s sequential.

It's not a bad product, It's just priced way higher than it should be, which puts it in direct competition with much better solutions. Their business model relies on customers being ignorant of the alternatives.
 
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I've heared the Vertex 2e's perform better in RAID (in SATA II) than the C300's (in RocketRaid). Can you or anyone this confirm this?
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It's possible depending on what you're doing. The c300's are better across all file sizes when it comes to reading, but the Sandforce drives are faster at writing, especially when dealing with easily compressed data.
 
Hmmm, I'll be getting one of them, just not sure which. I hope it won't be long before Intel put a SATA III Raid controller on motherboards. If they existed, that would have made my decision a lot easier :)
 
I have the asus u3s6 card that give me 2 usb3 ports and two sata 6gbps ports. With a C300 64gb the speed is amazing. I don't need fast writes cos its an OS drive and once all my programs are installed I do very little writing to this drive because I want it to last longer.

I wanted the fastest read for a cheap price and when I got my C300 64gb it was about £108 inc vat and del. At that time the Vertex2e 64gb was £150. Now the prices are about the same but I would still go for the C300.

I have not got a 2.5inch to 3.5inch converter because the SSD just sits on top of my DVD drive. Why secure it as its memory and not a hard drive.
 
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