INTEL X25-V VALUE 40GB 2.5" SATA-II SOLID STATE HARD DRIVE @ £92.99 inc VAT

The reason the reads and writes are slower on these things is because they only have 5 NAND flash chips so can only utilize 5 out of the 10 channels on the controller.
 
Hasnt this gone up by another few quid, though it was 97 yesterday....

Why is everyone so sure its "intel" who have increased these prices? £ has been stable against the dollar for some time now, however overclockers prices have been steady in their rises....

OCUK cant blame this on intel

I am a very loyal customer but I have to admit to opening an account elsewhere this week and have ordered 2 bundles, both of which were cheaper there.....
 
littlepuppy said:
Hasnt this gone up by another few quid, though it was 97 yesterday....

Why is everyone so sure its "intel" who have increased these prices? £ has been stable against the dollar for some time now, however overclockers prices have been steady in their rises....

OCUK cant blame this on intel

I am a very loyal customer but I have to admit to opening an account elsewhere this week and have ordered 2 bundles, both of which were cheaper there.....
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I too prefer to buy from OCUK because I prefer their customer service, however with CONSTANT moves like this, trying to scrimp a few extra quid it's putting me off. What OCUK tend to forget is they think they are making a few extra quid, but no, because then we see it for a few extra quid cheaper elsewhere and purchase from them instead. So actually you aren't, you are losing money, please sort it out! Yes you are may possibly make more profit per item, but your general sales are down I bet.

It's not just OCUK though, some products continue to rise, though it isn't the manufactures, over in the states the prices seem a lot fairer, it's because we live in rip off Britain and the retailers just copy each other in pricing unfortunately.
 
I think the Intel drive will trump most other things for random read/writes, and it's these figures which make a noticeable difference. Whilst that Corsair drive has higher stated read/write figures you wouldn't notice the difference other than when moving large files around on the disk.

Given the choice between 2x X25-V in RAID-0 and 1x X25-M, I'd go with the latter. :)
 
so the intell is better for the random part of it? how does that work if something else has higher read / write (new to ssd's sorry)
 
atmax1 said:
so the intell is better for the random part of it? how does that work if something else has higher read / write (new to ssd's sorry)
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It's not only related to SSDs, the same applies to mechanical drives.

SEQUENTIAL read/write is when one bit is moved after the other on one file, this would happen if moving a 200MB file at 100MB/s it would move it within 2 seconds.

RANDOM read/write is when very small bits of data are taken from random locations on the drive.

To put it into a 'real world' example, think of a delivery company. A truck can move one large package from Manchester to London. However if it wanted to pick up packages from Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton etc, Random read/writes act as multiple sports cards whizzing from all those locations quickly, but they have a smaller capacity.

I know that is a very rough example but it's the best on the spot thing I could think of. When you OS starts up it reads and writes hundreds of little files, this is where random read/write is used.

When moving a HD movie from one drive to the other, this is when sequential read/write is used.

Hope that made sense.
 
It should just plug-and-play. Without windows 7, you won't have access to TRIM functionality - this may or may not be a big deal for you.
 
Thanks VortX, I may grab one then.

Would i notice a huge diffrence if i did raid 0 with 2 of these?
 
2 of these drives in RAID-0 is extremely fast, I came from a pair of Raptors in RAID-0 to a pair of these drives (well I have the kingston version of these), and there really is no comparison, these things blow the Raptors out of the water in everything..

The only downfall is the fact that TRIM support isn't available when you're using RAID, so performance will decrease over time, however, if you create an image of your OS and save that to a mechanical HDD, then once performance starts to become sluggish, you just set it back to IDE mode, and then run HDDErase from DOS, and perform a secure erase on both drives, then rebuild your RAID array and put the image of your OS back onto the SSD's again.

This process takes about an hour to do, so if you were to do this say every 6 months or so, it will keep your SSD's in tip top condition.

Also, I would think that TRIM support will be supported under RAID fairly soon, it's just a case of enabling it through drivers, as the firmware already supports TRIM out of the box..
 
That would work, however, Acronis True Image would be better.

Also, you need to remember to use the "full" backup option, otherwise it re-images the OS with the incorrect alignment, this happened to me when I installed the SSD's the other week, and the performance was really poor, so I ended up just doing a clean install, and that sorted everything out...

I was using the cloning option though when this happened, you shouldn't run into this problem if you use the backup and restore method, as I said though, you need to remember to check the full backup, and sector by sector option..
 
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Thanks, I'm going to order 1 and another one another time, I wont need to do the image thing with just 1 willl i?
 
DavyBoy said:
put the image of your OS back onto the SSD's again.
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This may sound like a stupid question but i got to ask it ( i have acronis but havnt used it yet), if you perform the unraid and wipe the drive, how do you put the image back on? I ask coz i cant work out how you get back into your system (coz the os has been wiped off the ssd) to access the image on the other drive to perform the re-image back onto the ssd?

Hope my question makes sense!

Cheers.
 
I think you have to reinstall windows then installed the backup software then inport the files back.
 
139sroberts said:
This may sound like a stupid question but i got to ask it ( i have acronis but havnt used it yet), if you perform the unraid and wipe the drive, how do you put the image back on? I ask coz i cant work out how you get back into your system (coz the os has been wiped off the ssd) to access the image on the other drive to perform the re-image back onto the ssd?
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Imaging software like TrueImage, Ghost or HDClone doesn't need Windows to restore a disk image. You boot the program directly from a CD, tell it what image file to use and what drive to restore to and bingo, job done.
 
DrBombcrater said:
Imaging software like TrueImage, Ghost or HDClone doesn't need Windows to restore a disk image. You boot the program directly from a CD, tell it what image file to use and what drive to restore to and bingo, job done.
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ahh so i store the image on my hdd then, before i go about my unraiding, i should put this image onto cd.

Do my unraiding, ssd erasing etc etc.

put the ssd raid back.

set boot from cd in the bios.

Then, put the cd image in and boot from that.

That right?
 
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