New SSD advice needed - Samsung PB22-J 64GB vs OCZ Vertex 30GB/60GB

[UberTiger]

Hey all,
I'm considering picking up one of these drives this week, depending on cost.
It's going to be installed in a netbook (1.6Ghz Atom with ION) and I'm wondering if there's going to be any discernable difference between the two of them for daily web browsing, iTunes use, web development and some programming?
I may be playing the odd game on them too, but nothing demanding as I'll probably just stick to the desktop for gaming.

30GB will probably be enough for me, although it would be nice to have 64GB for a bit of breating room. I can get the OCZ Vertex 30GB for £110 shipped new (although possibly trying to find one less 2nd hand) and I can get the Samsung 64GB for £140 shipped new. For the £30 extra I'm considering going for this for double the space, but will it impact on performance?

Any advice?

I'll be using Win 7 Pro too if that matters. So looking at TRIM functionality etc. too.

 

[UberTiger]

Thanks for the input, I just found this thread from before xmas saying the samsung doesn't have TRIM, but does have Garbage Collection (GC), what's the difference and does it really matter?

I saw on the OCZ forums that most people try to use TRIM if possible, but I didn't find any good explanations between the two or how performance is impacted.

 

[UberTiger]

Samsungs get messed up by full formats though

Got any more info on that?

Isn't your SSD going to be worth more than your netbook?

I wouldn't bother tbh. I don't think you're going to see a huge improvement in speed to the things you are doing.

lol, well it could be if I bought a big one, but I'm certainly not gonna spend more than £140 on the SSD if I get one. This is the spec To be fair it's worth about £300, I've upgraded the RAM to 2GB of DDR3 (will upgrade to 3GB later but it's not worth it with the costs at the moment), I've unlocked the ION LE to a full ION and I usually run it for day to day use at 1.9Ghz stable. So it's become the perfect little portable workstation and media centre for myself. I wouldn't want anything bigger than the 11.6" screen both for size and battery life reasons.

So the only other upgrade I've got tossing around at the moment is the hard drive, I could whack a 500GB one in there, but TBH most of my big files are stored on my desktop and the only reason I'd really need that is if I wanted to carry around my entire music collection which I'm not fussed about.

Therefore I though it may make sense to get an SSD drive, but I'm really not sure how much impact it would have on day to day use and performance. Obviously the snappier the better, and I realise it's a bit extravagant, but could it be worth it?

 

[UberTiger]

I've just been checking out the X25-V too, but the 35mb/s write speed is putting me off - especially when you compare it to the likes of the 130+ of other drives. You reckon this would be a big difference?