SSD and General drive info

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I have had my WD 150GB Velocraptor drive for a few years now and its still working great and fast (IMO)

I see the price of SSDs has come way down in the past couple of years

OCZ Vertex 3 are apparently the fastest, why are they so much cheaper than the Intel ones?

I am currently using just over 80gb on my primary drive so a 120gb would be ideal. Would this improve speed of startup, opening programs etc by 10 fold or would I be wasting my money?

I backup (clone Acronis true image) my primary drive to a 150gb old Maxtor drive every month or so and run Raxco perfect disk running all the time on all drives. Would either of these be a problem for SSD drives?

Rest of rig - Q6600 @ 3.6ghz, 4gb ram, ATI 5770
 
This is one hot potato im not going to touch :D SSD will make your machine run like a bat out of hell. Im not getting into the Intel v OCZ agrument however.
 
So the bottom line is that SSD will make my machine a lot quicker, Intel are for the people with more money than sense? (unless they offer a 5 or 10 year warranty or something compared to OCZs 3 years)
 
Well Intel are supposed to be more reliable but you can't beat the speed of the OCZ Vertex drives. Have a 90GB Vertex 2E myself and love it. It has never missed a beat and was great value all things considered.
 
The OCZ agility 3 120gb seems quite good for £164. No doubt it will dump in price over the next coming months...but then there will only be something else faster out for £164

Why is the Vertex £30 more than the Agility, is it just the 30mb faster read or something else?
 
It is mainly OS and read access from the SSD that could benefit.

A common misconception is total gaming etc would reap huge performance benefits which isn't necessary true. They recommend that SSD should optimally minimise write activity compared to a performance HD. Otherwise it could lessen the life of your SSD through wear over the long run.

Taken this from various different threads and articles, Personally i am going to hold off but of course that only imo :)
 
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the intel drives are more expensive for one reason, the little blue logo.
i am an intel cpu user and an amd graphics card user. so dont call me an amd fanboy :P the amd cpu's are shockingly poor in comparison to intel... (damnit i touched the hot potato)
 
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