SSD PCI-E advice

Blue407 · 18 Oct 2011 at 10:57

Hi Guys

I am looking for a high speed SSD for my Office PC. PC is going to be a Dell T1600 with 2 x dual graphics cards and 16gb Ram running Windows 7 x64.

I'm considering a PCI-E SSD drive, rather than SATA as there will be a PCI-E x4 slot free.

From the information I have read they will be faster than SATA 3 drives.

Primary use will be system management, need PC to be responsive and able to run multiple applications with ease and min 100Gb capacity.

Any advice/recommendations?

Wucked · 18 Oct 2011 at 12:20

Probably one of OCZ's PCI-E RevoDrives, by all accounts very very fast.

Just be aware that its a bit of a gamble on reliability with their products at the moment. You're covered by a 3 year warranty of course, but for a pro level machine personally I rate reliability over performance.

Stonedofmoo · 18 Oct 2011 at 12:23

Very fast yes, but you have to really give them a lot to do before you can notice the difference over standard SATA600 drives. As in long queue depths!

You're not going to see that with your listed requirements so it's just wasted money.

Blue407 · 18 Oct 2011 at 14:22

Stonedofmoo said:
Very fast yes, but you have to really give them a lot to do before you can notice the difference over standard SATA600 drives. As in long queue depths!

You're not going to see that with your listed requirements so it's just wasted money.

So would you just go for a fast SATA SSD? or how about one of the hybrid ones???

Lithium · 19 Oct 2011 at 09:48

By the sounds of it a SATA3 SSD will be more than enough I/O for you.

PCI-E storage in my opinion is really only for the very very very high end of I/O performance. e.g. the sort of stuff I've installed into servers that need super fast DB I/O. Not office work, even hard core office work.

I just ordered a RealSSD M4 - has some good reviews, especially around reliability.