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SSD boot drives
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:49 pm
by 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
Re: the SATA III phenomenon
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:57 pm
by 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.
Re: the SATA III phenomenon
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:49 pm
by 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
Re: the SATA III phenomenon
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:04 pm
by FZ1
Out of those I'd get the Agility. Similar performance as the vertex, cheaper and supports TRIM etc.
Re: the SATA III phenomenon
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:18 pm
by 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
Re: SSD boot drives
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:49 pm
by Darkstar
I would go with the Intel, they were giving those away last week with the 160 GB SSD purchase ....
Re: SSD boot drives
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:01 pm
by 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.
Re: SSD boot drives
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:08 pm
by skier
FZ1 wrote: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