perhaps so but again it comes down to price, those ocz drives cost more than the intel cheapest i found was £80 a drive. Intel x25 v is £60
New to ssd? not sure what to get?
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perhaps so but again it comes down to price, those ocz drives cost more than the intel cheapest i found was £80 a drive. Intel x25 v is £60
Eh? The Elmcrest drives have a reasonable read speed but moderate write speeds. The new Vertex drives are still faster.
He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's thinking of buying Intel Value drives but compares Intel Extreme drives (that cost upwards of £500) to other 2nd generation SSDs.
Not worth arguing with tbh. Not even sure if troll, asking for advice when you clearly made a decision (however stupid it would appear to be)...
i was just pointing out that intel is usually on top for performance in all the current ranges of ssd drives. as for me I have a £150 budget and want a fast ssd with about 80gb space. So getting 2 intel 40g value drives and running them in raid 0 is a good choice
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im happy with my choice. it gives me good enough performance for what i need windows 7 and to run biowares swtor when it launches. the raid0 benchmarks are good and i consider it the best performance for value. You could pay the extra for a slightly better ssd choice but id rather put that towards a new gpu
You could pay less for a better SSD but since you're a stubborn...
Don't make pointless threads where you ask for advice and throw everyone's advice away since you made your decision from day 1.
Good day, Sir.
Oh rly?
This is not asking for advice?
Read through the thread properly and you might find that people already posted advice a number of times.
No i didnt ask for advice, that was me giving advice and those ssds were not cheaper alternatives, some did have better benchmarks but pound for pound I still think my choice gives the best performance for value
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If you actually pay attention to his opening post, he isn't asking for advice. It's constructed in a way that's offering advice to SSD newbies. Whether it's advice most of the rest of the board would give is a different matter.
True that, got lost in the discussion. Shame on me.
My point stands though, Intel X25-V are very poor value.
Soldato
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Best performing (benchmarks) would be crucial/sandforce (ocz-corsair)
The Best all round I would say the Intels. I've had most of them except the crucial. They all need a little TLC compared to mechanical drives but You will have less/no issues with Intel...not tried the value model but I'm sure It would not disappoint
The Best all round I would say the Intels. I've had most of them except the crucial. They all need a little TLC compared to mechanical drives but You will have less/no issues with Intel...not tried the value model but I'm sure It would not disappoint
Reliability, That's a 100% given, compatibility..well 80% of all the motherboard controllers are intel
Don't take my word on it, go do some reading..
Start here http://www.anandtech.com/show/4202/the-intel-ssd-510-review/3
Intel Extreme? Do you know how much they cost?
Have a look at the comparison between the Value ones you wanted and Extreme:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/148?vs=128
£500+ for the 64GB version.
Beat me to it
Heres a Real comparision. The Intel 40GB Value drive vs the Crucial C300 SSD 64GB which is only £20 ish more and has 33% more size.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/148?vs=198
The Crucial beats the Intel Value in everytest as far as i can see.