[Storage] Gaming SSD?

[slumbarr]

I need to replace my HDD with SSD for playing some games. Not sure what the difference is, but I read on OCZ that Radeon R7 is for gaming and Vector 150 is for enthusiasts. Anyone can help? And does this mean its better for the AMD platform?

 

[yankees27sg]

I need to replace my HDD with SSD for playing some games. Not sure what the difference is, but I read on OCZ that Radeon R7 is for gaming and Vector 150 is for enthusiasts. Anyone can help? And does this mean its better for the AMD platform?

imo, there is no proven SSD that built for gaming advantage. having said that any SSD will perform much better compared to HDD...may consider Samsung 840/850 EVO series...if budget allowed go for 850 PRO

 

[Trans-Am]

The only different when using SSD is that the game will load quite fast. If you consider that as a gaming advantage, so ya.

 

[Alternative X]

Not necessarily true. The performance of the Vector 150 is actually suited more for people doing video/photo editing as it is the fastest out of OCZ's SSDs. Only the Samsung 850 Pro is faster.

Granted that AMD's R7 SSDs are targeted at gamers, however, the AMD's R7 SSD only differs from the Vector 150 by having a lower clocked memory controller (ie. slower read/write) and having a lower guaranteed write endurance rating than the Vector 150. The OCZ Vertex 460 has even lower performance than the AMD R7 SSD for the same reasons as well.

This chart illustrates the differences between OCZ's SSDs.

Normally, as gaming rigs tend to be doing more read rather than write operations to the SSD, as long as an SSD has decent read performance, the SSD would be suitable for gaming and you do not need a top end SSD for gaming. Even though the R7 SSD is AMD branded, it will also work fine in an Intel machine since they are just storage drives anyway. Intel branded SSDs will also work just fine in an AMD rig as well, storage drives can't exactly discriminate against chipsets of differing brands since storage techonologies are standardised anyway.

Thus, if you want OCZ SSDs, would be better to just go for the Vertex 460 256GB ($165, PC Themes) or even the budget Arc 100 256GB ($159) as the AMD R7 SSD is not avaliable locally and is priced at a premium at Amazon. Granted that the Vertex 460 has only a 20GB/day guaranteed write endurance rating, but then again, you are not going to be writing 20GB of data into the SSD everyday, are you?

 

[muddle]

Well unless he do heavy torrenting.

 

[leedreamer189]

Not necessarily true. The performance of the Vector 150 is actually suited more for people doing video/photo editing as it is the fastest out of OCZ's SSDs. Only the Samsung 850 Pro is faster.

Granted that AMD's R7 SSDs are targeted at gamers, however, the AMD's R7 SSD only differs from the Vector 150 by having a lower clocked memory controller (ie. slower read/write) and having a lower guaranteed write endurance rating than the Vector 150. The OCZ Vertex 460 has even lower performance than the AMD R7 SSD for the same reasons as well.

This chart illustrates the differences between OCZ's SSDs.

Normally, as gaming rigs tend to be doing more read rather than write operations to the SSD, as long as an SSD has decent read performance, the SSD would be suitable for gaming and you do not need a top end SSD for gaming. Even though the R7 SSD is AMD branded, it will also work fine in an Intel machine since they are just storage drives anyway. Intel branded SSDs will also work just fine in an AMD rig as well, storage drives can't exactly discriminate against chipsets of differing brands since storage techonologies are standardised anyway.

Thus, if you want OCZ SSDs, would be better to just go for the Vertex 460 256GB ($165, PC Themes) or even the budget Arc 100 256GB ($159) as the AMD R7 SSD is not avaliable locally and is priced at a premium at Amazon. Granted that the Vertex 460 has only a 20GB/day guaranteed write endurance rating, but then again, you are not going to be writing 20GB of data into the SSD everyday, are you?

The AMD branding really confuses people, but if you say it works on Intel platform, then as long as the price justifies, why not.

 

[lukart]

Not necessarily true. The performance of the Vector 150 is actually suited more for people doing video/photo editing as it is the fastest out of OCZ's SSDs. Only the Samsung 850 Pro is faster.

Granted that AMD's R7 SSDs are targeted at gamers, however, the AMD's R7 SSD only differs from the Vector 150 by having a lower clocked memory controller (ie. slower read/write) and having a lower guaranteed write endurance rating than the Vector 150. The OCZ Vertex 460 has even lower performance than the AMD R7 SSD for the same reasons as well.

This chart illustrates the differences between OCZ's SSDs.

Normally, as gaming rigs tend to be doing more read rather than write operations to the SSD, as long as an SSD has decent read performance, the SSD would be suitable for gaming and you do not need a top end SSD for gaming. Even though the R7 SSD is AMD branded, it will also work fine in an Intel machine since they are just storage drives anyway. Intel branded SSDs will also work just fine in an AMD rig as well, storage drives can't exactly discriminate against chipsets of differing brands since storage techonologies are standardised anyway.

Thus, if you want OCZ SSDs, would be better to just go for the Vertex 460 256GB ($165, PC Themes) or even the budget Arc 100 256GB ($159) as the AMD R7 SSD is not avaliable locally and is priced at a premium at Amazon. Granted that the Vertex 460 has only a 20GB/day guaranteed write endurance rating, but then again, you are not going to be writing 20GB of data into the SSD everyday, are you?

Good detailed stuff!
Yea, obviously if you have SSD your games and any software (even virtual memory) will make any load times much faster than your old HD.
Now MX and ARC wont have the same load times and write times as lets say R7 or Vector! If you can afford to have the R7, why not Extra performance is always welcomed

 

[dricas_007]

I have just upgrade to Samsung Evo 850 pro from intel 530 ssd...quite a big difference....but still depend on what u deal with...Cheers

 

[Gattberserk]

Just go with the Samsung 850 EVO or PRO, u wont go wrong.


the latter if u fancy the 10 years warranty.

 

[weap0nx]

Why not go with an M.2 PCIe card like Plextor M6e? now got black edition
Plextor M6e Black Edition SSD Review (256GB) - Back in Black! | The SSD Review

 

[xLegendary]

I know that OCZ SSDs don't have the best reputation after their issues with the SandForce based drives like the Vertex and Agility, but with their latest drives like this Vector 150, they've really hit a home run. This drive competes with and trades benchmark scores with many "Pro" SSDs on the market currently like the SanDisk Extreme II, Samsung 840 Pro, and the Seagate 600. It is also rated for 5 years of constant use at 50Gb/day of writes and carries a 5 year warranty as a result which is amazing. Toshiba now owns the OCZ brand so rest assured that there will be someone backing the warranty and support in the future.

 

[lukart]

Just go with the Samsung 850 EVO or PRO, u wont go wrong.


the latter if u fancy the 10 years warranty.

Well, you might think again: Samsung 840 EVO read speed drops on old-written data in the drive - Page 151

Apparently Samsung drives are losing lots of performance over time!

 

[micheloving]

The only different when using SSD is that the game will load quite fast. If you consider that as a gaming advantage, so ya.

It runs everything faster , not only gaming . Boot up time is very significant .
Now is the best time to buy cause its finally affordable .