Looking at buying a SSD and keen on either the ocz vertex2 64gb or the corsair force 60gb. Both are stated as having the same read and write speeds, i was just wondering if anyone is using either of them and what are thier experiences. It will be used as an os drive plus a few other programs, i can get the corsair £10 cheaper than the ocz but just need to know which is best as im new to this ssd stuff. Cheers in advance.
Which SSD.
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how about a Crucial C300 64gb? really fast read speeds which is ideal for running your OS from and favorite games/apps.
I have one and am actually being held back by my motherboards SATA 2 connections as it maxes out, and compared to other peoples test results with motherboards that have a faster SATA3.0 connection am losing quite a bit of performance.
I have one and am actually being held back by my motherboards SATA 2 connections as it maxes out, and compared to other peoples test results with motherboards that have a faster SATA3.0 connection am losing quite a bit of performance.
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The OCZ and Corsair seem to be as good as each other - however I would swing towards the OCZ as they have been pretty good with firmware updates in the past, but corsair certainly aren't bad.
The Crucial looks good - the read speeds are fantastic, but the write speeds are a bit low compared to the competition (here is a review). I suppose it depends on your usage whether this will be an issue - if you are doing stuff that is almost always reading (but hardly writing) then it is a winner.
The Crucial looks good - the read speeds are fantastic, but the write speeds are a bit low compared to the competition (here is a review). I suppose it depends on your usage whether this will be an issue - if you are doing stuff that is almost always reading (but hardly writing) then it is a winner.
I can link to some reviews if it helps,
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/07/21/crucial-realssd-c300-64gb-ssd-review/1
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/07/21/crucial-realssd-c300-64gb-ssd-review/1
Cheers for the advice guys, looks like the crucial is the one as only going to be used for os and maybe a couple of my favourite games so mainly reading. Is it just like installing a hard drive, plug in load win7 dvd and of you go or is there anything i should do before, cheers.
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with a slimmed down OS, Office and a few choice Apps i got my install size down to 10.1GB so is that perfectly ok for a 32GB SSD?
I have another HDD to put the Documents folders and files on
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with a slimmed down OS, Office and a few choice Apps i got my install size down to 10.1GB so is that perfectly ok for a 32GB SSD?
I have another HDD to put the Documents folders and files on
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Rizo - that sounds like it will work fine. I assume you are eyeing up a kingston?
I recently had to answer this question, and I ended up going for the Corsair Force 60GB drives. 2 of them 
They just made more sense to me for price difference - where I bought mine from I was saving £10 over the OCZ drive and £20 over the Crucial drive.
That's £40 saved and much better write speeds over the Crucial
And maybe, just maybe, they'll crack TRIM over RAID at some point, in which case I'll sooooooooooo be raiding these together! (And justify me buying 2x 60GB instead of 1x120GB).
They just made more sense to me for price difference - where I bought mine from I was saving £10 over the OCZ drive and £20 over the Crucial drive.
That's £40 saved and much better write speeds over the Crucial
And maybe, just maybe, they'll crack TRIM over RAID at some point, in which case I'll sooooooooooo be raiding these together! (And justify me buying 2x 60GB instead of 1x120GB).