what ssd drive to get?

[WasteTimeChangingCars]

I'm looking at buying a new ssd drive but can't decide on witch one out of the three

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-014-OC
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-002-CR
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-CS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

all three have similar read and write speeds. so what I'm asking is what one out of the three is the best, I quite like the Corsair one because I know they make very good PSUs.

 

[faugusztin]

OCZ Vertex = Corsair X64 = Patriot Torqx (not M28) = Supertalent ME (i think)

I'm satisfied with my Torqx, but if i would go for budget i would probably choose Kigston V+ :
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-KS

It is a Samsung drive, random writes suck but otherwise it is a nice and cheap SSD (and not JMicron).

 

[johnerz]

Crucial only for the price not a lot between them tbo

 

[ChileanLlama]

No confirmed user upgradeable firmware for Samsung based drives = no TRIM in Windows 7 and I know of no manual tools to clean up these drives.

I've a Samsung PJ22 and it more noticeably suffers from degradation over time than my Crucial's.

Not sure about the Corsair, but the OCZ Vertex and Crucial M225 both use the Indilinx controller and to all intents and purposes offer very similar performance - personally I wouldn't spend the extra on the OCZ, in fact I'd expect their prices to drop at some point soon to be closer to the Crucial's...after all they did annouce price cuts when the Intel G2 was released, but said it would take time to filter through until retailers got rid of old stock.

 

[breeza]

Check out all the SSD guides on Anandtech.

 

[ChileanLlama]

Check out all the SSD guides on Anandtech.

Definitely Just remember that the guides don't include all the current drives as they probably weren't all available. Hopefully there'll be some updates in future months.