SSD Drive Query

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I'm looking to purchase a SSD to hold the O/S and maybe a few apps. So I don't need a vast amount of memory. The few i have looked at....

Patriot PS100 32GB £64.99
Read - 210 MB/s
Write - 150 MB/s

Intel X25 40GB £95.99
Read - 170 MB/s
Write - 35 MB/s

OCZ Vertex 30GB £99.99
Read - 230 MB/s
Write - 135 MB/s

Patriot PS100 64GB £134.98
Read - 210 MB/s
Write - 150 MB/s

Anyway looking at these drives the 32GB patriot looks better value than the others. For a start Read/Write speeds are a lot greater than Intel's X25. Similar specs to the OCZ vertex but for £35 less. And the 64GB is just over twice as much as the 32GB so it's probably worth buying two 32GB drives.

What does everyone else think?
 
The PS-100 has crippling issues last time i looked. These were meant to be getting fixed by a firmware update.

30GB is a possibly a bit too constraining if you do anything more than office work and web browsing. Either get a 40GB Intel, or the 64GB M225. If you're positive that 30GB is enough, The vertex is pretty good.
 
Semple said:
How much does Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) take up, Microsoft website recommends 20 GB's.
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It needs only about 15GB for the actual install, but ignoring Page and hibernation files, only takes up about 8-9GB after the actual install is finished.

For a system drive aren't the sequential write speeds not that important anyway? In which case the Intel one should still be plenty fast enough.
 
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Intels 4k random write performance pretty much makes up for the lower than average sequential write speeds in the majority of applications.
 
I have 3 patriots in RAID 0 and they fly, did have an issue with it locking sector 0 but a FW patch seems to have cured that

I get over 600mb/s reads at peak
 
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