**OCZ AGILITY 3 240GB @ £139.99 Inc. VAT w/ FREE SHIPPING FOR ALL!!

LordSplodge · 28 May 2012 at 19:27

wnb said:
Not knowing much about SSD's do i need anything else? Does it plug in like a normal hard drive.

It's just a SATA HD. You plug it in. It's faster than traditional spinning platters. That's the (big) key difference.

The Halk · 28 May 2012 at 19:28

TheBigCheese said:
Hmmm....torn!

The price is very good but the reviews are mediocre at best... :/

In all fairness if you're not that sure about SSDs then you're perhaps misreading the reviews. It's not noticably slower than any other SSD. Many reviews show you lots of graphs but end with the caveat that real world performance feels no difference.

The difference with a mechanical drive is staggering.

Overslop · 28 May 2012 at 19:33

Damn, only just purchased a similar 240GB drive for £20 more...might return it under DSR and get one of these!

Antar Bolaeisk · 28 May 2012 at 19:33

The Halk said:
The difference with a mechanical drive is staggering.

Indeed, getting an SSD has probably been the single best upgrade I've made in a long time. Most of the time when you upgrade a part you get (hopefully) a not inconsequential improvement.

The improvement seen with an SSD is orders of magnitude that of a standard upgrade.

I'm just annoyed I managed to buy mine just as they started to drop

(Still worth it though)

scottmuir424 · 28 May 2012 at 19:35

im very tempted to upgrade from agility 3 120gb's in raid to a pair of these

Antar Bolaeisk · 28 May 2012 at 19:39

scottmuir424 said:
im very tempted to upgrade from agility 3 120gb's in raid to a pair of these

Is there really that much of a real world difference putting these into RAID?

Kinda like double infinity still being infinity I would have thought.

Have they fixed TRIM under RAID?

scottmuir424 · 28 May 2012 at 19:51

would say there is a noticeable difference, i went from a revo drive back to just 1 ssd then back up to 2 in raid, TRIM isnt supported as of yet waiting on firmware resolution for this but in the meantime they say that set w7 power options to high performance then in advanced set hdd to never power down that way the ssds will stay powered so garbage collection can work it's magic. Any truth not 100% sure