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I can recommend an SSD for a laptop upgrade. Dropped an Intel in the wife's 4yr old Toshiba and transformed it. Makes lots of new laptops, more powerful ones I might add, seem quite sluggish. You won't regret it...

I'd go for 2 120GB drives but I won't have the money until the end of the month at the earliest :(
 
Just bought a second hand Intel X25-M 160GB and it's actually far too big for me. I think 60GB would be enough. Slightly regretting it now with these offers.

As far as size goes, once I'd installed Windows 7 (64bit Pro), reduced recycle bin size, reduced system restore size, disabled hibernation and turned some windows features off (windows media centre, etc), then it was barely 16GB.
 
SSDs are very, very good things to put into laptops. As mentioned above you really don't need a very fast one, I've got a first generation vertex in a netbook. I'm certain a slower drive would be exactly the same, but removing the bottleneck of disk access makes such a difference.

Good prices here, cheers ocuk.
 
Sorely tempted by the vertex 120gb, my current os drive, (samsung F1 320gb) is the weakest point in my system.
 
Extremely tempted by these. I've resisted the SSD upgrade stuff for ages but... argh :p

FYI, 30GB is more than enough for Windows. I've got a short-stroked F4 @ 40GB and have more 15GB left over even with tons of apps/etc installed.

I'm personally tempted to go for a 30GB for windows + 60GB or 120GB for steam...sorely tempting.
 
Troezar said:
I can recommend an SSD for a laptop upgrade. Dropped an Intel in the wife's 4yr old Toshiba and transformed it. Makes lots of new laptops, more powerful ones I might add, seem quite sluggish. You won't regret it...

I'd go for 2 120GB drives but I won't have the money until the end of the month at the earliest :(
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Indeed. Its quite a shame that lots of people spend loads of money on building great high end gaming rigs, but they run everything off a single hard drive. Even with a HDD as good as a samsung F3 or WD caviar black, windows is always going to get more and more sluggish as the HDD fills up.

With an SSD for a boot drive, PCs never gets sluggish. Boot ups and window browsing stay lightning fast forever without any lag.

I remember ages ago while I was at uni and built my first gaming PC. A friend who tried it out still complained that it was so sluggish and slow, which was true even on the best HDD available back then (sammy T166) and being a top of the range S939 build.

And every PC build I've had since then has been just as sluggish (I.E. normal windows performance on a HDD) as any such old PC.

Another thing I remembered about my current build, even with an I7 920 and 12 Gb ram, while it took it ages to fully load windows after booting up, if I was impatient and started clicking on things nothing would happen, and instead of taking an extra 20-30 seconds to fully load windows after boot up it would take several minutes!

With the SSD, windows bots, loads instantly, start clicking away and everything is working.

£65 for the 60 Gb drive for your OS will greatly boost your PCs daily performance, if you can afford a larger one like the 120 or even 250 Gb, you can get yourself a great gaming drive as well.
 
Ok, I just read this review:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-agility-ssd-120gb-review/11

For you, as a gamer, we did a subjective test as well. Call of Duty 4. Starting up the game, load times feel just so much faster.

On the Raptor it takes 22 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the G.Skill SSD it takes 8-9 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the Patriot Warp SSD it takes 8-9 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the Skill Titan SSD it takes 8-9 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the OCZ Vertex SSD it takes 7-8 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the G.Skill Falcon SSD it takes 7-8 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the OCZ Summit SSD it takes 7-8 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the OCZ Agility SSD it takes 7-8 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the Patriot Torqx SSD it takes 7-8 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level
On the Corsair P128 SSD it takes again 7-8 seconds to start up the Ghilly suit level

I mentioned this before, but it seems that we are hitting some sort of bottleneck as load times do not get much faster anymore. Everything your SSD loads into memory, has to be processed by your PC. So this is our new challenge to address. None the less, remarkable to say the least. Again, this is a subjective 'real-world' test. Numbers might, and likely will differ in different environments / PCs, but one thing is a sure fact, you'll definitely notice a large speed up in level and overall game load times, no doubt there.
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Is it true then that for gaming, you wouldnt notice any difference between the Agility drive and a faster one, but it would be a lot better than a HDD?

I wish I could see raid 0 HDDs included into such tests :(
 
bhavv said:
Ok, I just read this review:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-agility-ssd-120gb-review/11



Is it true then that for gaming, you wouldnt notice any difference between the Agility drive and a faster one, but it would be a lot better than a HDD?

I wish I could see raid 0 HDDs included into such tests :(
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Yes that is pretty much correct.

Basically it goes as follows:-

Changing your boot drive from a fast 7200rpm HDD to an average SSD like say an Agility will give your system one huge boost when used as a boot drive, probably the best upgrade you will ever do.

But say upgrading your boot drive from something like say an OCZ Agility to an OCZ Vertex 3 will not give anywhere near as noticable improvement unless your running benchmarks or loading and saving very large files to it.

This is simply because what really makes SSD perform so well is the sub 0.1ms access times and they all do that, even the real slow ones, its only the really old ones that had stuttering issues based on Jmicron controllers that were slow but thankfully we no longer sell those, they are long gone.
 
So its better to simply get stuff like these Agilities instead of more expensive ones.

I'm going to try some more game loading tests between my Raid 0 drives and C300 to see if it would make any difference.

What would be awesome is they were even cheaper to justify get a pair of 250 Gb ones to replace my Raid 0 F3s.

Although the prices are good, they are still a little too much for me to want them.
 
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Sorry for posting this here... However since you seem to understand quite a bit gibbo I have a question for you...

This is my first SSD so I really am lost about this...

Basically...
The new Intel 320 Series 160GB against the Vertex 2E 120GB...

Space is not really an issue and 120GB will probably suffice, however 160GB won't hurt either.

My needs for it are (importance to me - top to bottom):
- Boot drive for Windows 7 64 Bit
- Extracting RAR Archives of 4gb to 50gb from Samsung F3 to SSD
- Uploading the large 4gb-50gb files from the SSD to the recently purchesed Synology DS1511+ with 5x 3TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 RAID 5 array reaching speeds of 165.91 MB/sec Writing, 197.8 MB/sec Reading with Link Aggregation (100-110 mb write w/o link Aggregation)
- Applications so that they load faster
- Football Manager 2011 :D (The only game I play on the PC as I have a PS3 for games)

My question is which one would you get between these two according to the needs described above?

Because Intel are more reliable but the read/write (especially write) speeds of the Vertex 2E when compared to the Intel 320 Series is better?

Again sorry if I posted in the wrong thread :)
 
im tempted to get one of the 120 jsut for my steam games. doesnt matter if its the fastest but still faster than standard hdd
 
Im considering the 30GB one jsut for Win7 64, I currently have my OS and many programmes (use photoshop etc a lot) on the Intel 80GB x25, but was running out of space and like the thought of a stand alone drive jsut for Win and all its updates.

How would the OCZ Agility compare, and is having all my Creative suite, and such speeding things up, jsut I read a few poeple saying for certain things it wont make much of a difference, its jsut with prices being so low for these at the mo.
 
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