Vertex 2->Vertex 4

MooMoo444 · 23 May 2012 at 10:21

Would I notice much of a difference taking this route?

I would be cloning my OS drive so there would be no real effort involved. Just wondering if I could be able to notice a single performance difference between the two.

I have a Vertex 3 as sig, but I never got round to swapping it with the OS drive so that has just been for games currently.

So in short, V2->V4, worth it?

MooMoo444 · 23 May 2012 at 15:10

The lack of input is leading me to believe the difference wouldnt be anything to shout about

nicktay2605 · 23 May 2012 at 15:21

Well I've just gone from an Agility to a Vertex 4, so a bigger leap than you, and apart from the extra storage space I don't notice massive differences in the day-to-day things. Having said that, game loading times are better, but it certainly won't be an enormous leap like going from a mechanical drive to an SSD would be.

On the other hand, with the new firmware the Vertex 4 is one of the best SSDs out there, so it's a great choice if you do decide to buy a new SSD.

dave_beast · 23 May 2012 at 15:21

You'd get better across the board read/write speeds if your drive is more than half full.

Whether you'd really notice much difference is debatable. If you we're going up in capacity then it'd be worth it. I would hold on as prices seem to be falling atm.

nicktay2605 said:
On the other hand, with the new firmware the Vertex 4 is one of the best SSDs out there, so it's a great choice if you to buy a new SSD.

+1

MooMoo444 · 23 May 2012 at 15:43

nicktay2605 said:
On the other hand, with the new firmware the Vertex 4 is one of the best SSDs out there, so it's a great choice if you do decide to buy a new SSD.

One of the best?

I'm a little out of touch with SSD tech at the moment.

What would you say is the current daddy?

dave_beast · 23 May 2012 at 15:49

MooMoo444 said:
One of the best?

I'm a little out of touch with SSD tech at the moment.

What would you say is the current daddy?

In terms of outright speed it would be the Vertex 4 on 1.4 firmware, but SATAIII is already at it's limit, with 550mb/s + overheads =700mb/s so there's quite a few drives in that area, but I believe that the Vertex 4 is the cheapest that achieves those speeds in read/write, whereas the Crucial M4 has a slower write speed.

MooMoo444 · 23 May 2012 at 16:07

It much of a kerfuffle to update the firmware?

dave_beast · 23 May 2012 at 16:13

MooMoo444 said:
It much of a kerfuffle to update the firmware?

They'll be shipping with the 1.4 final firmware soon.

If not, attach the drive to your computer and it's a .exe file that is self explanatory - then use Windows backup to copy across your current install. All done in under 2 hours from my previous updates.

AllBodies · 24 May 2012 at 16:29

The main difference will be with big files, so big application loads and games.

Since you've already got an SSD you've already got all the advantages over an HDD. So access time and responsiveness is going to be the same, it would just do things ~twice as fast once you've asked it to, but most of the time that's probably going to shave ~1 second off what you experience now.