What SSD to get ?

The vertex gives you 120gb and reserves 8gb for SSD management. The gskill gives you the full 128gb but it will more likely wear down faster. Thought if I was pushed to buy one now, it would still be the falcon.

Both drives use the indilinx controller, and the patriot xtorq does too. This is the latest MLC controller that supports TRIM and has a lot better random small writes than the everything except SLC and the Intels. You may have been better off waiting for the new Intel annoucement later on this week or early next. They are bringing out new drives bigger capacity which will push prices down further. Much like the recession the prices will keep going down for a good while yet.
 
miniyazz said:
No, they have the same formatted capacity.
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http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ews/18195-ocz-vertex-120gb-ssd-review-16.html

"All Vertex 120GB drives have sixteen 8GB chips for a grand total of 128GB space …just like the Falcon. However, OCZ has firmware limited the amount available to you the customer by 8GB. This on the surface sounds like a bad thing but the key thing to remember is to ensure the longest lifespan possible you have to leave enough room for the wear leveling algorithms to do their jobs."
 
tdream said:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ews/18195-ocz-vertex-120gb-ssd-review-16.html

"All Vertex 120GB drives have sixteen 8GB chips for a grand total of 128GB space …just like the Falcon. However, OCZ has firmware limited the amount available to you the customer by 8GB. This on the surface sounds like a bad thing but the key thing to remember is to ensure the longest lifespan possible you have to leave enough room for the wear leveling algorithms to do their jobs."
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Yet another review article talking out of its bum and not bothering to actually check the specifications, and their theory based on the apparent specifications, before writing it.

http://forums.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&msg_id=2025548&threadid=2025548&forum=103&product_id=38191&msgcount=15&overclockid=0

On the Vertex Series the naming convention reflects this and the 30 is equivalent to 32GB, the 60 is equivalent to the 64GB and so on.

Vertex is 64GB, they advertize it as 60GB because of the known discrepancy. G.Skill just named their SSD's like every other hard drive manufacturer does.
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They are the same capacity.

System_ofa_Down said:
I have reserved the cash aside for a vertex. If nothing will supercede them in the next month or so, one of them is mine :D
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..well there's the Vertex Turbo, which should currently be available to retailers so they should start popping up soon, never mind any others that turn up.
 
miniyazz said:
Yet another review article talking out of its bum and not bothering to actually check the specifications, and their theory based on the apparent specifications, before writing it.

http://forums.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&msg_id=2025548&threadid=2025548&forum=103&product_id=38191&msgcount=15&overclockid=0



They are the same capacity.



..well there's the Vertex Turbo, which should currently be available to retailers so they should start popping up soon, never mind any others that turn up.
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Hardwarecanucks is a respected site that doesn't bow down to marketing pressures and whatnot. They tell it like it is. And if you bother to read yes they are the same capacity, but OCZ's firmware reserves space for SSD management to increase to life of the disk. Reading specifications and testing out what things actually are isn't the same. Call it due diligence. Yes we all know about the 10 base 2 etc since the dawn of silicon.
 
Hopefully we'll get a good range of responses here to verify or refute any capacity difference :)

Edit: I rest my case.
 
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just received my G-Skill 128gb ssd today ...install windows 7 onto it .....starts up in around 24 seconds ....well happy with it .....lot more responsive too :)
 
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