SSD - Intel Vs OCZ - No RAID required
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I would wait a week or so to see some reviews on the OCZ Vertex drives before answering that.
IMO Intel drives are seriously over-priced and I predict by the summer of this year there will be a bunch of other manufacturers with faster drives that cost less.
IMO Intel drives are seriously over-priced and I predict by the summer of this year there will be a bunch of other manufacturers with faster drives that cost less.
It does depend what you use them for. I think most SSDs (OCZ Core v1 through to OCZ Vertex/Apex will have similar performance in web server applications, where they are mostly doing small random reads - the universally short seek times make a huge difference, and will own even a server-class 15,000 rpm hdd. But once you start doing random writes (such as a pagefile), the older generation of SSDs have some issues around the JMicron controller. Generally the older (Core/Solid) SSDs will be faster than a HDD, but in theory there will be a big difference between those and the newer Vertex/Apex SSDs, as the latter have new controllers and/or cache added, so the occasional system lag should no longer happen.
It's probably worth going for a Vertex/Apex SSD over a Solid, but they're obviously more expensive, and we're still waiting on reviews as to real-world performance.
You can be sure that the OCZ Vertex drives will perform exactly the same as the GSkill drive here:
http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=804&p=0
Notice the read and write speeds are the same as the OCZ Vertex.
http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=804&p=0
Notice the read and write speeds are the same as the OCZ Vertex.