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I am interested in getting one I was thinking of having the OS on it and 1 or 2 games then everything else on my SATA

Is there a particular one that is better than others? looking at the prices I was thinking of going for about 60ish gb do you think this is enough for the OS and a couple of games?

Any nightmare storys about SSD's?

I dont want to spend loads then in 6 months the price drops by a stupid amount.
 
Don't worry about prices - they'll probably be more expensive in 6 months time.

60GB will be fine for an OS and a couple of games.

Intel Extreme are generally regarded as the best - but they are very expensive. Depending on your budget then there will be 3 or 4 brands to choose from - probably OCZ, Crucial, Corsair, or the non-Extreme Intel.
 
The Samsung and Kingston are both "first generation", the Crucial and Intel G2 are second generation, with far better price/performance.

Having said that, they are all reasonably close, so if you can find any at a good price, go for it! :)
 
fross said:
The Samsung and Kingston are both "first generation", the Crucial and Intel G2 are second generation, with far better price/performance.

Having said that, they are all reasonably close, so if you can find any at a good price, go for it! :)
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That's incorrect. The Samsung PB22J is at least their second generation drive. It performs well and is comparable to the Indilinx drives (OCZ Vertex & Agility and Crucial M225s) and slightly behind the Intel drives. To all intents and purposes you won't notice a difference.

The downside of the Samsung is it's cost in relation to comparable drives and the lack of user upgradable firmware to allow GC (most models have it) and perhaps in the future TRIM support. Samsung are not very forthcoming with information on this.
 
ChileanLlama said:
To all intents and purposes you won't notice a difference.
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Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. I'll buy whatever I find at a decent price then.

lack of user upgradable firmware to allow GC (most models have it) and perhaps in the future TRIM support.
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Bearing in mind recent firmware update and TRIM stories I'm not in any rush to try out TRIM!
 
eager said:
excuse the non googled question but what is trim?
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SSDs have a habit of losing performance over time. This is because a lot of the time when something is "deleted" it isn't actually scrubbed from the drive, you just tell Windows to pretend it's not there anymore. With a normal HDD if it has to use the physical space that data was in later on it can just write over it, whereas with an SSD it has to clear it first, and then write the new data to it. This is what leads to the performance drop: the longer you've used the drive the more full it is of "deleted" files, so the more time your drive has to spend clearing out old junk before it has the space for new data.

The TRIM feature is something that does this on the fly more or less, so you shouldn't get to the point where you've got loads of SSD space full of old stuff that needs to be cleared before that area of the drive can be used again, which should restore performance to the level it was when the drive was new and keep it there.

I *think* that's the gist of it, I'm sure someone will point out if I'm wrong. Check the OcUK SSDs Explained sticky for more info.
 
Art said:
SSDs have a habit of losing performance over time. This is because a lot of the time when something is "deleted" it isn't actually scrubbed from the drive, you just tell Windows to pretend it's not there anymore. With a normal HDD if it has to use the physical space that data was in later on it can just write over it, whereas with an SSD it has to clear it first, and then write the new data to it. This is what leads to the performance drop: the longer you've used the drive the more full it is of "deleted" files, so the more time your drive has to spend clearing out old junk before it has the space for new data.

The TRIM feature is something that does this on the fly more or less, so you shouldn't get to the point where you've got loads of SSD space full of old stuff that needs to be cleared before that area of the drive can be used again, which should restore performance to the level it was when the drive was new and keep it there.

I *think* that's the gist of it, I'm sure someone will point out if I'm wrong. Check the OcUK SSDs Explained sticky for more info.
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Wow great reply. thank you... so I will be making sure I get one with TRIM then
 
All intel (Kingston soon to have it) G2 drives have TRIM as well as all indilix drives (OCZ, G.Skill, Supertalent...etc). Stay away from samsung for now.
 
The Kingston V+ has "self healing" which gets rid of this deleted data automatically and independant of the OS.
I think it uses the Samsung chipset which the Samsung and Corsair Performance series.
 
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