SSD for £100

GhostlyPea · 24 Mar 2011 at 19:58

Roughly 100 notes - whats the best buy at the moment circa 60GB? Mostly gaming etc.? This one looks OK on offer:

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Opinions?

Cheers

- Pea0n

Philtor · 24 Mar 2011 at 20:56

I would go for the OCZ Vertex myself. Unless your board has SATA III in which case get the Crucial one.

teknokid · 24 Mar 2011 at 22:16

yeah those crucial ssd's are ridiculously fast.

For £100, get your OS and a few games on there and you'll never look back.

I've been running one of the original vertex drives for over a year now and I absolutely love it. Best money I spent on my system.

GhostlyPea · 25 Mar 2011 at 06:52

Cheers guys. i take it the one I posted @ 64GB is pre-format size and the OCZ one is post format, or are they just different? £20 more for 4GB less so I assume theres a good reason?

Cheers

- Pea0n

teknokid · 25 Mar 2011 at 08:41

Pea0n said:
Cheers guys. i take it the one I posted @ 64GB is pre-format size and the OCZ one is post format, or are they just different? £20 more for 4GB less so I assume theres a good reason?

Cheers

- Pea0n

Im not really sure on that one, but your hypothesis sounds about right.

Tbh, I'd go for the crucial if you have Sata III, the custompc review showed them to be insanely fast..

Mr Krugga · 25 Mar 2011 at 11:27

Scrap that.

bittech said:
The contentious SandForce over-provisioning of the Vertex 2 (and all 100GB SandForce drives) has been cut from 35GB to 15GB for the Vertex 2E, resulting in a formatted capacity of 111.69GB (remember that SSD NAND capacity is expressed in binary, with 128GB of NAND packing 137,438,953,472 bytes of data). Sadly it appears as though those that bought the early 100GB Vertex 2 models are stuck with the smaller capacity though, with no sign of any update tool to adjust the drive’s level of over-provisioning.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/08/17/ocz-vertex-2e-review-120gb/1

GhostlyPea · 25 Mar 2011 at 22:14

So looking like the Crucial anyway? Don't have SATA 3 but I guess it doesn't matter too much

- Pea0n

justintime2001 · 26 Mar 2011 at 11:38

Pea0n said:
So looking like the Crucial anyway? Don't have SATA 3 but I guess it doesn't matter too much

- Pea0n

I went with the Crucial and have no regrets

Alasdairhurst · 27 Mar 2011 at 17:29

I have an OCZ vertex 2e and its a great drive - no problems so far and boots really fast!
if you have sata 3 and just using it for booting from, then the crucial one would be quite a bit better/faster due to the 100mb/s faster transfger rate, but would install windows a little slower.