Which 64GB drive?

Energize · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:37

After looking through my computer and seeing that I'm using < 80GB of disk space minus my user directory I have decided to get a small SSD drive. Now there are three drives around £100, the OCZ Vertex 2E, Crucial RealSSD C300 and the Corsair Force. Which of these drives would you recommend in terms of performance and reliability?

shine · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:41

The Crucial and Vertex are both good, also consider Intel.

Operation · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:41

The C300. Although the intel X25-m is a better performer, but it's 80gb and £40 more than either of the ones you mentioned.

Energize · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:52

Based on the prices I've found I'm ruling the F60 due to it's higher cost. So I just have to decide between OCZ and Crucial, is there any performance difference between the two?

EDIT - Ok having looked the overall read and write performances for both drives I'm going for the C300. Thanks guys.

Operation · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:44

Good choice. Don't be disappointed when te write speeds don't match your 7200rpm hdd. The read speeds will more than make up for it.

Energize · 31 Mar 2011 at 22:02

I won't be writing anything to it anyway asides from software installs, all the archive extractions and video editing will be written to the 1TB drive.

Energize · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:13

Ok I've got windows running on the drive now, but the maximum speed it gets to in atto is ~130MB/s. The motherboard only has SATA II ports so it is clearly connected to the right port.