Which SSD- <£100 and sata 2?

JonJ678

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I've been using a first gen 30gb ocz vertex for ages now, and would like a new drive. My computer doesn't have the new sata standard, so 3gb/s is fine. I'm hoping for a reliable 120gb drive for less than a £100- what should I buy?

Cheers
 
I think that's a 3rd gen sata drive, which is probably backwards compatible with my system. I'm a bit surprised that I can't find cheaper 2nd gen drives for the same capacity, but they seem few and far between.

Cheers for the recommendation- the samsung 830 seems to be the other option, but again it's 3rd gen sata.
 
Why would you want an old sata 2 only ssd? is there even such a thing? I would just go with the m4, mine arrived this morning running on a sata 2 board and its so damn fast.
 
3rd Gen SATA wont be an issue, whilst you wont benefit from the maximum throughput the drives can do you will benefit from the increased random read/writes to make it worth it, and considering there are not many 2nd gen SSDs available cheaper anyway, if you are after a 120/128 SSD its a cracking buy.
 
That makes sense. I was looking for the older drive on the basis that it would be cheaper, but as it isn't, fair enough. I've got a vertex sat on my desk which is certainly sata 2, so they used to exist :)

I don't really buy the idea that sata 2 was a bottleneck, so it's hard to be excited about a faster sata interface. Glad to have backwards compatibility confirmed.

The M4 it is, cheers :)
 
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