*****Round 1 of Deals - OCZ SSD Drives*****

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Hi there

Got a couple of great deals here for you on SSD Solid State Drives, again these are only whilst stock last:-




OCZ Vertex 96GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX96G) @ £140.99 inc VAT

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The OCZ Vertex Series is the industry-leading flash-based storage solution, delivering the performance and reliability of SSDs at a lower price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market. The OCZ Vertex Series is the result of all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including the first model on the market to use the Indilinx Barefoot controller, blazing read/write speeds, and 64MB of onboard cache.

- Capacity: 96GB
- Controller: Indilinx Barefoot
- Maximum Read: 240MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 170MB/sec
- Sustained Write: 100MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 17000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-II
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- Warranty: 3 Years

Was [£169.99] Inc. VAT

Only £140.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

















OCZ Vertex Limited Edition 100GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTXLE100G) @ £234.99 inc VAT

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OCZ Technology’s latest ground-breaking solid state drive is taking shape in a limited edition solution designed for consumers looking for the highest level of SSD performance. Pushing the envelope like never before, the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition surpasses the competition where it counts most: maximum read/write speeds, unparalleled 4k random write rates, and minimal performance degradation. With performance that takes centre stage, the Vertex LE series doesn’t lose sight of what makes an SSD the ideal storage alternative to hard drives and delivers the quality, reliability, and durability demanded by consumers that will not settle for anything but the best. Complete with TRIM support, Vertex LE is the ultimate Windows 7 notebook or desktop upgrade.

- Capacity: 100GB
- Controller: SandForce SF-1500
- Maximum Read: 270MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 250MB/sec
- Sustained Write: 235MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 50000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-II
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- Warranty: 3 Years

Was [£259.99] Inc. VAT

Only £234.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Just out of intrest (I'm poor at the mo :() how do the OCZ Vertex drives with the Bearfoot controllers stack up in the SSD world? There's too many and they come out too fast for me to keep up!

Prices are coming into "affordable" range though :)
 
These indilinx's are one of the best controllers at the mo. AFAIK the Marvell's in the Crucial are the only faster one for jo public at the mo (unless you want to go enterprise level/pci etc)
 
Stickman said:
These indilinx's are one of the best controllers at the mo. AFAIK the Marvell's in the Crucial are the only faster one for jo public at the mo (unless you want to go enterprise level/pci etc)
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One is an indilinx and the other is a Sandforce. So two extremely fast and very good drives for the money. :)
 
Welllll,

Im looking at either that Vertex 96GB, or the Vertex 2E 60GB as they are very similarly priced..

Advice? ;) (and dont say the more expensive one :P)
 
im a bit concerned about the vertex LE, they had good reviews and a lot of reviews said only 5,000 would be made and some of those would be kept back for RMA's...
so how come theres still some about and theyve dropped from £310 to £235?
 
Nickson said:
Difference between Vertex and Vertex 2E??
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VErtex = indilinx, vertex 2/2e = sandforce, faster, mostly in writes.

Having had indilinx's, and a Crucial with marvell controller on a sata 3 controller, theres not a whole lot of difference between them all in anything but benchmarks, all 3 are very fast, with marvell fastest, followed by the Sandforce, followed by the Indilinx.
 
Nickson said:
Welllll,

Im looking at either that Vertex 96GB, or the Vertex 2E 60GB as they are very similarly priced..

Advice? ;) (and dont say the more expensive one :P)
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Id say the faster 60GB 2E m8 as I always want fastest HDD in my system.
 
cainer said:
im a bit concerned about the vertex LE, they had good reviews and a lot of reviews said only 5,000 would be made and some of those would be kept back for RMA's...
so how come theres still some about and theyve dropped from £310 to £235?
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Prices are coming down and the Vertex LE did not sell as well as OCZ forecasted.
 
Arggh that is a good price and I want an SSD. Not sure about the Indilinx drive over the Crucial C300 64GB or Vertex 2E though. The extra space would be handy...
 
the1gooner said:
Would one of them OCZ 96GB ssd's be okay for my Samsung N510 netbook?
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Yes it would be fine, I've got a 30GB Vertex in my Atom netbook at the moment.

I bought one of the 96GB ones just over two weeks ago for £25 more! :(
Needless to say I'm extremely happy with it though, it was a toss up between the Vertex 2 and C300 60GB models, but I really can't operate my boot drive with such a small space and I didn't want to fork out over £200 to raid them.

Currently running Win 7 Pro 64bit on an i7 920 @ 3.6Ghz
MS Office 2007 (every program)
Adobe CS5 Master Collection (every program)
Steam with just MW2 installed
Plus probably a few gigs of other small programs.
A few hundred megs of personal documents

I've got 43.2GB used of the 89.4GB formatted capacity. So just under half full with everything updated (NOTE: This is with page file removed and windows restore disabled in accordance with the OCZ SSD tweak guide, if you leave these in place expect to have up to 10GB more space used by Windows). There's still a few games and other programs I want to put on it which will probably bring me up to 70GB pretty quick.

A few days after a clean Win 7 install and all the above programs I had a BootRacer time to logon of 11 seconds and time to desktop of 19 seconds. A week or so later it's about 23 seconds to desktop with a few extra startup programs running.

All in all I'd definitely recommend it if the extra space is important to you. Access times are still ludicrously fast, no program takes more than about 3 seconds to open (I'm looking at you Adobe programs) with most being as close to instantaneous as I need! Often the first person in the game on MW2, only limited by my net connection after that really.

At £141 I'd definitely go for it!

Oh...just to add on aswell, it took less than 15 mins to install Win 7 on this from a USB stick and by using ninite.com and then installing my essentials from backup I was back up and running with 90% of the stuff and windows tweaks I had installed on my previous bootdrive within 1 hour!

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