quick SSD question

Vertex is fastest hence the extra ££ it costs. The Gskill falcon is the same as the vertex though, but much cheaper, go for 1 of those instead.
 
miniyazz said:
Single drive. Take advantage of lesser £/GB with larger drives, don't bother with RAID 0.
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is that due to maxing the controller out so % wise the benefit of the second drive isnt much, but could be negated with a decent raid card on say, PCI-E 4x?
 
raid is Pointless on SSDs as there response times are so low you not notices the increased data rate (unless you ran an benchmarks or copyed files from 4 RAID ssds that have 2xRAID 0 SSD setups, but thats not real world use HD tune and tach are just for Epeen now when SSDs are used you need to be looking at the Random Write access time tests with SSDs to see good from bad SSDs), you also Lose TRIM support if you use that raid card even if its Not in RAID mode, so the drives performance would likely drop

i bet that i be Hard pressed if i upgraded my SSD thats the Corsair S128 (90MB read 70MB write) to the P128 (200MB/s read/write) as the Access times will be the same for Any SSDs
 
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surely youd also notice the extra read/write while loading data from the drive/transferring it to another one, but then again, its not that often.

I just want to eliminate load times as much as possible. Its fun playing bf2 now and remembering when it used to take a few minutes to load and verify on my old p4 2gb 6600gt compared to this machine lol

edit: would only be putting on one or two games (the beefy ones/most played). Also i cant justify raiding them anyway, was just curious.
 
if your getting any 128gb £250 SSDs you will be cpu limited with BF2 as you have got 200MB/s read speeds to start off from, you get that by RAIDing 2 HDDs but not the response time of less then 1ms<

BF2 is more CPU limited on the first time it loads or when ever the in game video settings are changed on that old system you most likely find it was your cpu that was holding you back but BF2 does have a lot of disk activity when loading

you cant compare SSD to HDDs in the same way Raw Data rate does not mean faster with SSDs as with SSDs the response times with SSD are far far faster and they start at around 150MB/s data rate any way
 
explicit4u said:
+1

falcons are a better option then the vertex drives.
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I understand that these are the same as Vertex's but I swear on US sites where I frequent based on customer reviews alone it would seem that G skills have a higher defect rate. A lot more RMA's than what's seen on the reviews of the Vertex. Just an observation though. I'm not stating it to be a fact.
 
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ok, so SSD's are basically RAM on the end of a SATA cable, how long before we see overclocking utils for SSD's :)

I have a HP QL64 laptop I'm testing at the moment with 3Gb Ram, to load BF2 single player level on the SATA drive (with shader adjustments) took about 5 mins to load, on the Falcon SSD took 3 mins to do the same.
 
Ninja Please! said:
I understand that these are the same as Vertex's but I swear on US sites where I frequent based on customer reviews alone it would seem that G skills have a higher defect rate. A lot more RMA's than what's seen on the reviews of the Vertex. Just an observation though. I'm not stating it to be a fact.
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I bought a Falcon and it is perfect, best drive i've ever had. Even a lot better than a raid setup I used to have.

Get the Falcon
 
OCZ have by far the best support, dont get a falcon. I had to make the same desidion. But ocz provide a TRIM app, and they have a new firmware ready to come out which keeps data save during the update! Plus they have promised native TRIM support with the release of windows 7
 
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