SSD boot drives

[skier]

so when do we think this will be more standard, i want one, but there is only a single drive available at newegg, a 2TB Barracuda for $300 so sadly i cant exactly upgrade HDD's soon it seems

i wantz a 500GB at most, gawd

[FZ1]

Unless you are going to RAID or move to the newest SSD's, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade to SATA III as you won't be filling the bandwidth of even SATA II.

[skier]

i really just want one drive from each interface(have a SATA I Raptor/SATA II Barracuda) but maybe i'll just go for a boot SSD :shrugs:

so, what would be suggested for a boot drive(30-40GB) in the $129.99 price range? i have a firm $129.99 limit cuz thats what the Intel X25-V is ^ others in the range are OCZ Solid2, Vertex and Agility but i havnt seen much about the boot drive range

[FZ1]

Out of those I'd get the Agility. Similar performance as the vertex, cheaper and supports TRIM etc.

[skier]

what about the rated read/writes, are they trustable? these are all between $120-130 and SATA II MLC

OCZ Agility Series OCZSSD2-1AGT30G 2.5" 30GB
Sequential Access - Read Up to 185 MB/s
Sequential Access - Write Up to 100 MB/s

OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX 2.5" 30GB
Sequential Access - Read Up to 230 MB/s
Sequential Access - Write Up to 135MB/s
-Sustained Write: Up to 80MB/s

Imation M-Class 27509 2.5" 32GB
Sequential Access - Read up to 230MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to 170MB/s

A-DATA 500 Series AS592S-32GM-C 2.5" 32GB
Sequential Access - Read up to 230MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to 150MB/s

Intel X25-V SSDSA2MP040G2R5 2.5" 40GB
Sequential Access - Read up to 170MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to 35MB/s

[Darkstar]

I would go with the Intel, they were giving those away last week with the 160 GB SSD purchase ....

[FZ1]

The Vertex drive is a little better than the agility but does cost a little more. I'm not that familiar with the ADATA and Imation drives...not sure if they support TRIM. Is that the 1st gen intel drive? If not, no TRIM.

[skier]

The Vertex drive is a little better than the agility but does cost a little more. I'm not that familiar with the ADATA and Imation drives...not sure if they support TRIM. Is that the 1st gen intel drive? If not, no TRIM.

its a drive for the new 'Value' series, 34nm