Should I but a SSD yet

Petrolhead · 26 Oct 2009 at 12:42

Want to replace the drive and speed things up a tad

I am also about to ditch Vista 32bit and replace with Win 7 64 bit

Saw this drive which looks a reasonable price - Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

Is this a worthy move?

I also saw this - The only downside is it does not like random writes, I had to move some large files from this to my existing HDD's.
I will using an additional drive for my data

If no good, any other suggestions

explicit4u · 26 Oct 2009 at 12:49

even though there a bit more expensive, the Crucial M225 drives are better.

EDIT: Just realised that these are the Jmicron drives. i would avoid them at all costs, they stutter and at times could even be worse then a mechanical HDD.

Petrolhead · 26 Oct 2009 at 12:56

explicit4u said:
EDIT: Just realised that these are the Jmicron drives. i would avoid them at all costs, they stutter and at times could even be worse then a mechanical HDD.

I assume you mean the Kinston ones are the Jmicron drives?

explicit4u · 26 Oct 2009 at 12:57

cms239 said:
I assume you mean the Kinston ones are the Jmicron drives?

Yep.

Indilinx and intel are the drives to look out for, you cant really go wrong with either of them, the crucials use Indilinx controllers.

Petrolhead · 26 Oct 2009 at 13:32

Many thanks

Toastor · 26 Oct 2009 at 13:58

explicit4u said:
EDIT: Just realised that these are the Jmicron drives. i would avoid them at all costs, they stutter and at times could even be worse then a mechanical HDD.

These drives use an updated Jmicron controller and do not have any stuttering issues. Several users have posted on these forums that they are very happy with the performance of these drives.