My Hard drive revamp.

[MikeHiow]

So I've recently gone from a Kingston 128GB V-Series to a Crucial C300 128GB for my OS drive, and from an old Maxtor 250GB to a WD 500GB (WD500AAKS).

I went for the WD because I could pick it up for the right money locally, and in the hope that it might be fairly reliable over say a Samsung F1/F3 1TB, which would have been the alternative.

I think I'm rather happy with the improvements, and hopefully my findings may help some others looking to do something similar;

 

[zebedeee]

think i'd have gone for the drive that has faster write speeds an maybe suffer a slightly lower read speed if it was a matter of funds, however if u have the funds then you could get the Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1)

that has better write speeds without suffering any loss on the read speeds, it's also double the capacity

 

[martynpd]

nice setup, try to avoid the 006 firmware on the c300 drive if you can, there are a few reports of the drive freezing in games and windows applications.

but apparently turning off write buffer fixes it for now.

im using the c300 64gb with 2 sammy spinpoints 500gbs good setup so far.

 

[MikeHiow]

I didn't realise there were firmware updates for the C300. Thanks for the heads up though, I guess I'll wait for the next version before giving it a go. Do you know if a new version is expected any time soon?

think i'd have gone for the drive that has faster write speeds an maybe suffer a slightly lower read speed if it was a matter of funds, however if u have the funds then you could get the Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1)

that has better write speeds without suffering any loss on the read speeds, it's also double the capacity

I spent a long time considering the Vertex 2 vs. C300. I have very little need for super fast write speeds, certainly not to the extent where an extra 100MB/s over what I already achieve is going to make any discernible difference. Where as the higher read speeds are likely to be much more useful.

The 256GB was more than I was willing to spend.

 

[zebedeee]

yh that higher capacity was looking rather pricey tbh