Solid state, Price performance sweet spot..?

Albaba

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Ok, im looking into a rebuild with an i7 and x58 and want an ssd for the os/apps and a few games.
My head is boggled with all the choices, basically i want the fastest ssd at a reasonable price, so does anyone know what the price vs performance sweet spot is? As far as i can see the price diff varies widely due to the speed...

Im kinda looking at something between 60 and 120gig

Any advice much appreciated.

Ali
 
If your not worried about budget too much, take a look at the OCZ Vertex range. They're very quick and have ironed out all the previous bugs from the OCZ Core SSD's.

I'm currently running on the OCZ Core drives and am quite happy, the stuttering on it is a bit of an issue though, but that was fixed with the current range of drives.

If money really isn't an option you could go for one of the OCZ Z-Drives, but at £1,090 for the "entry level" model... it's just silly money really.
 
From reading about it would seem that 3 x 30gb OCZ Vertex drives in Raid0 give the best performance vs price. Obviously thats just for an OS boot drive and you would need a larger data drive for storage and every day stuff so that does add to the cost too.
 
u seen the price of the new samsung's? they beat the ocz in read speed and have 64gb compared to ocz 30gb.
 
32nm flash has been taped out now, which should come close to halving SSD prices around September/October time.
 
Is that a guess Zarf (with the price) or is there any evidence?

The 32nm stuff looks promising. It's supposed to be at least 30% faster from what I've read.
 
LeJimster said:
Is that a guess Zarf (with the price) or is there any evidence?

The 32nm stuff looks promising. It's supposed to be at least 30% faster from what I've read.
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An educated guess. 32nm is 2/3rds the size of the current 45nm stuff, and I believe they are also moving from 2 bits per cell to 3 bits per cell, so they are getting over twice the data density from a wafer. This should allow drive costs to more or less halve as the NAND is about 90% of the manufacturing costs for an SSD.

The timeframe is another estimate, drive manufacturers will be able to start purchasing the new NAND in september, but it'll take some more time before their products hit the shelves over here.
 
I've got a Samsung which was only £99 although a bit of a one off I think. Very quick.
 
Me too. I'm going for two Samsungs in raid giving me 128 gb for a dual boot system (xp and vista) and I feel its not bad for £275.

Although not as fast as 3 x 30gb Vertex drives it's much cheaper than £360 plus an extra 38Gb of space.

Reading these forums and others I don't think the extra speed of having 3 drives in raid is noticable and most people seemed to have done it to increase space since they find 60gb a bit too limiting.
 
HAz said:
u seen the price of the new samsung's? they beat the ocz in read speed and have 64gb compared to ocz 30gb.
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I just bought a 64GB Sammy SSD. If I can find out how to tweak it for better performance, I'll do some benchmarks on it. Out of the box it does about 180-200MB/s reads. I'm not expecting it to be as fast as a Vertex, I bought it because I didn't have the money for 60GB of Vertexes, yet I still needed more than 30GB.
 
Wow I mean £500 for a 160GB SSD. that's like 10x 500GB HDD you could Raid? 5TB's of space then raid it into insanity, would be fast and you could have a lot of space?? Your all insane! I wish I had that much cash to burn on something that holds my music collection and nothing else.:confused:
 
Zarf said:
An educated guess. 32nm is 2/3rds the size of the current 45nm stuff, and I believe they are also moving from 2 bits per cell to 3 bits per cell, so they are getting over twice the data density from a wafer. This should allow drive costs to more or less halve as the NAND is about 90% of the manufacturing costs for an SSD.

The timeframe is another estimate, drive manufacturers will be able to start purchasing the new NAND in september, but it'll take some more time before their products hit the shelves over here.
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I know what i'm getting for christmas then :D
 
Duke said:
I've got a Samsung which was only £99 although a bit of a one off I think. Very quick.
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Indeed, got the Samsung 64 SLC. A very quick drive that doesn't dissapoint purely for OS usage.

64GB may not be enough for some people but I keep most of my non important games installed on my Samsung F1 and things I play daily like my Source games are all on the SSD for quick multiplayer load times.

The load times do show, I'm normally in L4D about 5 seconds faster than everyone else :D
 
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