Upgrading SSD, any benefit?

nukemben

nukemben

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Heya,

I currently have a 128GB Crucial CT128-M225. I was looking at ordering the OCZ Vertex 3 60GB later tonight as it appears to more than double the read/write speed of my current drive?

Current Read and Write: 250MB/s and 190MBP/s

New Vertex advertised speed: 535MB/s and 480MB/s.

So you can see why I am very tempted to upgrade, though reading posts, people are saying Windows is booting up in about 12 seconds with a new Vertex, I am already currently booting up in that time? So is there actually any point in me getting a new SSD? It is not going to reduce my boot up time to 6 seconds is it ;)?

System Specs:
I5 2500k,
AS-Rock Extreme 4 Gen 3,
8GB (2*4GB) Corsair Vengeance PC12800 Memory,
GTX 470,
128GB CT128-M225 SSD ,
2*1TB HDD's,
Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality,
Corsiar HX 750W Modular PSU.

Thanks :)
 
Don't waste your money would be my opinion (and that's all it is... my opinion).

Even if it does reduce your boot time to 6 seconds. No disrespect ... but I would say "so what". For the life of me, I can't see why folks are so fixated by their "boot time". I don't know how anyone else manages their PC, but I turn it on at most once a day.

If primarily using your SSD as a boot drive, then I doubt you will feel / see any real difference moving from what is a generation 2 drive, to a generation 3 drive. Your current drive has pretty much the same lightening quick seek time / access time that the new drives have (IE. sub 0.1ms).

Only reason that I would "upgrade" is if I had money burning a hole in my pocket, or just fancied a change.

I would also (again only my personal opinion) consider moving from a 128GB drive to a 60GB drive as a big "downgrade". I'd rather have the bigger drive, than the faster sparkly shiny new drive.

Up to you, your money :):):)
 
One of the main reasons I was thinking to get it was for battlefield 3 to decrease loading times between maps and general performance increase!

Possibly having both drives, one for OS and one for running games.

Though I suppose the money is probably better spent upgrading my current GPU which is a GTX470...will wait for the next gen of graphics cards before doing that though :)
 
nukemben said:
One of the main reasons I was thinking to get it was for battlefield 3 to decrease loading times between maps and general performance increase!

Possibly having both drives, one for OS and one for running games.

Though I suppose the money is probably better spent upgrading my current GPU which is a GTX470...will wait for the next gen of graphics cards before doing that though :)
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Fair comment.

Have thought about having my games on an SSD myself for the same reason.

Though while accepting that a lot of folks have 60GB boot drives and are happy with them. I still think it's too small myself. I so hate having to watch / manage space. Up to individuals of course.

I would also want something bigger than 128GB for my games drive as well. Otherwise once again you have to start thinking about managing your storage, what with a single game weighing in at anything up to 10GB these days!

Rather than continuing increasing the speed of SSD's (lets be honest, there is a lot of the "mines faster than yours" going on these days). We basically need bigger capacity and cheaper SSD's.

Bit of a difficult one re your GPU. Only real upgrade would be SLI, or a single 580 GTX. Not convinced we will see new Nvidia cards much before the end of 1st quarter next year (just my gut feeling here).

Good luck whatever you decide :)
 
As above,
Only for the fact my pc came with 2x ocz 60g vert's I wouldnt touch them after having the issues with them.
Mine fails once a day and then takes 2-4 restarts for it to not show up as "FAILED" in the bootup/startup and I cant return them as the scumbag seller I got the pc off never forwarded me the reciepts for them.
Now, I was gonna try the firmware update using ocz toolbox but stupidly it doesnt work if the drive you are updating is been used as you windows boot disc, which seems crazy as thats what nearly all people use them for??????????
 
silverback said:
As above,
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Now, I was gonna try the firmware update using ocz toolbox but stupidly it doesnt work if the drive you are updating is been used as you windows boot disc, which seems crazy as thats what nearly all people use them for??????????
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I sympathise with your SSD problem. A right pain up the backside!

Re updating firmware... yes I agree there should be an easy / simple way. Only couple of times that I've done it to mine, the earlier version of the Toolbox would let you update the firmware on your boot drive. Worked fine for me. Though I do appreciate why they removed this function from their toolbox (IE. loads of folks had issues doing it this way).

There are other methods (using using Linux):

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...tex-2-3-Agility2-3-Solid3-Revo-and-Ibis-SSD-s

I'd give it a go. Doesn't sound like you have much to loose. Easy for me to say!
 
Will Have a look buddy, thanks.

Just need to find a thread that can explain how i go about creating a image of the ssd so can relaod onto ssd if it all goes wrong ....
 
silverback said:
Will Have a look buddy, thanks.

Just need to find a thread that can explain how i go about creating a image of the ssd so can relaod onto ssd if it all goes wrong ....
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Some sort of ghosting software from a live CD? (I've only ever used Norton as only used at work but should work!)
 
RetroX said:
Some sort of ghosting software from a live CD? (I've only ever used Norton as only used at work but should work!)
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Windows 7 has free backup software to do this.

I don't know if there's any issue using this with SSD's, perhaps someone in the know can confirm if it's suitable or not?
 
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