2 OCZ's or 1 C300

greymack

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I've changed my mind more times than my wife shopping, I've gone from an OCZ vertex to a crucial with a highpoint card and back again
Adding up the cost of a 128gb crucial C300 and the highpoint card i'm looking at £230-£240 with that the C300 would be my OS drive and also for apps, my steam games would be on an old school drive.

But what about this i buy an 60gb ocz vertex and i also purchase a 120gb model. The 80gb becomes my os drive and the 120gb works as my apps and games drive with maybe keeping the old HD as a downloads and my documents drive? The total cost of that would be around £260-£270 and i would have fast drives for all my needs.

Anyone got any thoughts on my best move?
 
Just checked my C drive and it's 55gb, my c drive is pretty much windows 7 and various apps like windows, live and the like.
So using a 60gb ssd drive doesn't leave much room.
How full can you use an SSD drive, on old style hard drives you always had to leave swap file space is that the same on SSD's or can you se them right upto full?
 
15-20% thanks for the info, i think possibly it's a point not a lot of people are aware of.
20% of 60gb is 12gb which is quite a chunk of an already small size drive.

I think this whole SSD choice is a massive headache because you kind of feel on the cusp of these drives taking off, you buy now and enjoy the benefits but deep down you know just round the corner not only something better is coming but probably cheaper too (eventually).
I know that's the case with most pc technology but seems especially true with the current state of SSD's.

From my own point I had been thinking of buying a couple of OCZ's one for boot and one for games etc but i think i shall now spend the minimum on purely a boot drive and then once the technology matures i'll get a larger drive.

I think i have also answered my own question if i'm buying a boot drive it probably has to be the C300.

One last question, the C300 is supposed to have poor write speeds, but how do these write speeds compare to a standard hard drive such as a samsung spinpoint?
 
greymack said:
One last question, the C300 is supposed to have poor write speeds, but how do these write speeds compare to a standard hard drive such as a samsung spinpoint?
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my samsung 1tb drive reads at 73MB/s +, writes at 77MB/s+ , when it's not full.
 
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gareth170 said:
really?

i didn't know that
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Over provisioning - Where'd my 128GB go?
The SandForce firmware also decides how much of the drive’s capacity is given to ‘over provisioning.’ This is a method of maintaining a drive’s performance by dedicating some of the drive’s NAND for use as empty blocks ready for writing, allowing the SSD to have spare blocks to use even when approaching full capacity. It also allows any dead blocks to be retired without bricking the drive or reducing capacity.

Though they also recommend that you don't fill your remaining space to busting point.
 
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