Looking for a new SSD.

[Number_25]

I'm looking for a SSD, I want to run my OS and a few games off it.

Budget of about £80.

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!

 

[stulid]

Well OCUK have got this - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-014-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

Get the OS and about 5 games on it.

 

[sk82jack]

Well OCUK have got this - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-014-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

Get the OS and about 5 games on it.

That is the best you will get for under £80.

If you can expand your budget to £90 then you can afford the next gen of the same make - OCZ Vertex 2E

This only boasts significantly better write speeds, read speeds is similar, so it may not be worth it for you, but it's the only other option you have probably, even if it is an out of budget option lol

 

[stulid]

That is the best you will get for under £80.

If you can expand your budget to £90 then you can afford the next gen of the same make - OCZ Vertex 2E

This only boasts significantly better write speeds, read speeds is similar, so it may not be worth it for you, but it's the only other option you have probably, even if it is an out of budget option lol

Meaningless, write speeds and read speeds quoted by manufacturers don't mean a thing.

120GB Vertex vs a 120GB 2E - http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/08/17/ocz-vertex-2e-review-120gb/3

Its not worth the extra really.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Aye, but that's just the sequential read and write of uncompressable data, if you look here the random read and write of the Vertex 2 is significantly higher than the vertex 1 and imho worth the £16 price premium.

 

[stulid]

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Crucial/M4_RealSSD_C400_128_GB/9.html

Isnt the newer crucial suppose to be faster than the C300?

 

[Meekal]

Well OCUK have got this - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-014-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

Get the OS and about 5 games on it.

That sounds like a bit of over kill to the drive? Would running at almost full capacity not cause the drive problems?

 

[stulid]

That sounds like a bit of over kill to the drive? Would running at almost full capacity not cause the drive problems?

Why? what you heard?

never seen any warnings about,

"oh its 60GB capacity, but don't fill it up"

 

[Meekal]

Well any drive running full would have its performance effected would it not?

 

[stulid]

Well any drive running full would have its performance effected would it not?

No.

Aslong as the SSD has TRIM theres no performance issues anywhere.

 

[VaderDSL]

I thought that was before Trim? Where filling a drive could have consequences i.e. degraded performance, probably imagined that though.

 

[stulid]

SSD without TRIM are like years ago.

even then it wasn't the capacity usage, it was the usage of each individual memory cell over time that degraded as each cell wasnt cleared before a re-write.

 

[VaderDSL]

SSD without TRIM are like years ago.

indeed which is where I'm sure I heard that filling a drive had some issues.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Well any drive running full would have its performance effected would it not?

I believe the answer is overprovisioning, the Vertex 60GB drives do in fact use 64GB NAND, but the OS can only see around 60GB.

 

[Meekal]

No.

Aslong as the SSD has TRIM theres no performance issues anywhere.

fair enough, I had just thought running a disk which is almost full killed its performance, something new i've learned then. Thanks

 

[stulid]

fair enough, I had just thought running a disk which is almost full killed its performance, something new i've learned then. Thanks

TRIM info here - http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/02/04/windows-7-ssd-performance-and-trim/1

 

[Meekal]

Thanks, I'll have a read.