(Storage) SSD Discussion Thread

[kotori]

thanks for all the valuable feedback

Perhaps you might want to consider using the SSD as the boot drive, one 640GB for non-essential programs and data, and the last 640GB as a backup drive for both your SSD and the first 640GB.

would you recommend to partition the 640Gb so that the non-essential programs are kept on a different partition, away from all my other data?

right now my pc is acting up, window tasks are failing to load or windows not loading at all. i fear my HDD or my RAMS are up in smoke. every other restart brings up the chkdisk, no bad sectors and hdtune says the drives are fine.. more delays before i start trying the ssd

 

[adrianlee]

Perhaps you might want to consider using the SSD as the boot drive, one 640GB for non-essential programs and data, and the last 640GB as a backup drive for both your SSD and the first 640GB.

Backup drive I will get Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB (same price as Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB)

 

[Dr_ARCHer]

would you recommend to partition the 640Gb so that the non-essential programs are kept on a different partition, away from all my other data?

Do you mean for your main disk or for your back-up disk? My own preference for back-up is to keep the non-essential program in a separate partition.

 

[Dr_ARCHer]

Backup drive I will get Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB (same price as Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB)

Good point. The F3 is great value for money, if you ask me.

In my case, I would also put the back-up drive in a external box.

Actually, in my case, I would have used a NAS

 

[FLiNcHY]

Which SSDs are the best nowadays?

There's corsair force 1200, owc mercury extreme, ocz vertex 2... all 285 mb/s, 275mb/s read and write, using sandforce controllers.

do they all perform roughly the same then?

Is it worth waiting for the next generation of intel x-25 G3 SSDs?

Cuz i'm thinking of getting the OWC mercury extreme.

$320 USD + 7 dollars shipping. quite cheap

http://eshop.macsales.com/search/120GB+ssd+extreme

 

[Tesumi]

Which SSDs are the best nowadays?

There's corsair force 1200, owc mercury extreme, ocz vertex 2... all 285 mb/s, 275mb/s read and write, using sandforce controllers.

do they all perform roughly the same then?

Is it worth waiting for the next generation of intel x-25 G3 SSDs?

Cuz i'm thinking of getting the OWC mercury extreme.

$320 USD + 7 dollars shipping. quite cheap

http://eshop.macsales.com/search/120GB+ssd+extreme

Seems quite worth for a drive that uses the sandforce controller.

 

[yourstruly]

G.Skill Phoenix Pro. 120gb Was 269USD a few days ago on newegg. Think it's 280 now. SF-1200 as well.

 

[zenkinz]

hi all,

was doing some googling on ssd, and come across this thread

I'm looking at the samsung ssd MMDOE56G5MXP-0VB 256gb, but found out that there's a promo going on for the crucial m225. The price difference is huge, although I think I could get around the same price for samsung if I get it from ebay.

Any one knows the performance difference between the two? Should I go for Samsung or Crucial?

I am using it for laptop, so I prefer to get at least 256gb instead of 120gb..

 

[RazerDA]

guys...if were to get locally...is the kingston v series good compared to intel gen 2 and crucial ssd? are the difference singificant? as i am looking at the 60gb version..was wondering if the kingston ssd will boost performance significantly...cheers

 

[Downloader]

I've an Infill G4 Car PC using a Samsung HM080HI presumely a SATA 2.5" HDD, mainboard chipset is VIA CX700. It crashed and I'm thinking to replace with a SSD. However, I'm not sure if it will work as the BIOS has no reference of any SATA wording at all. I've ever opened it once before and it was a PITA. I can't remember what the connector looks like though it does not seems to look like a normal SATA connection as it was not that small.

Nevertheless, I will open it up soon but anyone knows where and what is the SSD to get that will have no compatibility issue. I don't need high capacity so anything like 30/40GB will do. It does not need to be super fast as the idea of replacing with SSD is that it can take shock and vibration better than HDD.

 

[athenaesword]

guys...if were to get locally...is the kingston v series good compared to intel gen 2 and crucial ssd? are the difference singificant? as i am looking at the 60gb version..was wondering if thi' ale kingston ssd will boost performance significantly...cheers

i'm also thinking of getting the kingston v+ cus of the slightly higher capacity and GB/$. i haven't heard realy bad thngs about the drive either so it looks like kind of a safe bet.

 

[SpellSinger]

hi all,

was doing some googling on ssd, and come across this thread

I'm looking at the samsung ssd MMDOE56G5MXP-0VB 256gb, but found out that there's a promo going on for the crucial m225. The price difference is huge, although I think I could get around the same price for samsung if I get it from ebay.

Any one knows the performance difference between the two? Should I go for Samsung or Crucial?

I am using it for laptop, so I prefer to get at least 256gb instead of 120gb..

not many favourable reviews for the m225 256gb on newegg, not too sure about the samsung though. although i own a 64gb samsung thin ssd, could be a previous gen but it s reads slightly slower than the crucial with updated fw.

 

[starbugs]

News on the Intel X25 G3 leaked a few days ago. ETA Q4 at 160GB, 300GB and 600GB.

http://www.storagereview.com/intel039s_ssd_roadmap_leaked_x25m_g3_confirmed_2010

 

[adrianlee]

OWC offering 40GB SandForce-powered SSD for US$100

Other World Computing aka OWC has now introduced what it calls "the most affordable high performance SandForce Processor based Solid State Drive on the market," a 40GB 2.5-inch drive that makes use of the SF-1200 chip and costs (at least this month) $99.99.

The wannabe cheapo SSD has a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, a MTTF (mean time to failure) of 2 million hours, TRIM support, and delivers maximum read and write speeds of 285 MB/s and 275 MB/s, respectively.....

http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/hardware/29916/owc-offering-40gb-sandforce-powered-ssd-100
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/SSDMX040/

 

[kotori]

ran CystalDiskMark today after setting up my com.. xi-fi card dead >.<

i have the desktop pointed to a regular HDD so that i can store as much clunk i want on it.. lol.. all my internet browsers cache too

 

[RazerDA]

anyone has any advices for the kingston v-series non + series retailing at $220++ for 60gb?

 

[zenkinz]

not many favourable reviews for the m225 256gb on newegg, not too sure about the samsung though. although i own a 64gb samsung thin ssd, could be a previous gen but it s reads slightly slower than the crucial with updated fw.

just ordered the m225 256gb over the weekend, I hope the data corruption problem in the m225 is fixed by the latest fw (saw the changelog). crossing my finger.

 

[adrianlee]

OWC offering 40GB SandForce-powered SSD for US$100

Is this the best SSD at US$100?
Any body hooted this?

 

[weap0nx]

hey those who bought c300 care to share some benchmarks?

 

[Dr_ARCHer]

hey those who bought c300 care to share some benchmarks?