SCAN slashes price of HyperX 120GB Drive by 45%!

[aidanjt]

Sandforce is plagued with errors and bugs so i'll stick with Plextor, Samsung and Crucial

My Vertex 2E is SF, I can't say I've been particularly plagued by much of anything other than stupidly good performance. TRIM could be a bit faster, but it's still stupid fast.

[spoon_]

Just waiting on an Samsung 830 512GB to become £300~. Then I can finally migrate to the solid side. I presume the next gen will hit the limits of SATA 3?

Yeah it will hit limits... of ICHRX controller...

[go0rath]

Not long until we hit 50p per gigabyte!

[Sacred]

Very nice! Going to be upgrading next month so hopefully in the next three weeks we might seen even more reductions. Heres hoping for under the 50ppgb

[marshalex]

bargain price, but as mentioned i'd rather pay a bit more for the reliability aspect (and am really happy with my £140 samsung 830 256gb)

this is tempting mind for my test esxi box though.....

[mbkuk1]

This is an amazing deal but ive read on other forums that they have quite a thew bugs maybe a bit of research is in order

[rover214]

I have the Intel 330 120gb, not seen any issues yet

[Terbinator]

i have the intel 330 120gb, not seen any issues yet

nvm.

[Greecean]

i have these drives - really fantastic

[IronWarrior]

Brought one as soon as I saw the sale be listed on the Facebook page, my first SSD, can't believe the price of it.

Do they really improve loading times as in map load times?

[OilSheikh]

bargain price, but as mentioned i'd rather pay a bit more for the reliability aspect (and am really happy with my £140 samsung 830 256gb)

this is tempting mind for my test esxi box though.....

Well, I doubt most of us will use it as a single drive in their rigs anyway. Most likely , their Windows and programs and games will be on the SSD and all the files like movies, music, etc. will be on a Hard drive.

bargain price, but as mentioned i'd rather pay a bit more for the reliability aspect (and am really happy with my £140 samsung 830 256gb)

this is tempting mind for my test esxi box though.....

Brought one as soon as I saw the sale be listed on the Facebook page, my first SSD, can't believe the price of it.

Do they really improve loading times as in map load times?

Once you have used SSDs , your life will never be the same again. Things you will notice are :
- Super fast Windows boot up and shutdown times
- Super fast opening of programs
- Super fast saving while in a game
- Super fast AL+TAB out of a game
- Fast searches
- Quiet > no HDD seek noise, no issue of sacrificing speed if you want your HDD to run quiet
- Slim

Here's a very good review of SSD vs HDD by Nilus of NCIX
http://youtu.be/-lR0XoHFU6Y

[crossy]

Brought one as soon as I saw the sale be listed on the Facebook page, my first SSD, can't believe the price of it. Do they really improve loading times as in map load times?

When I built my new rig two Christmases ago, I spec'd a 64GB Vertex 2E as an OS drive. I've never regretted it and it's proven to be (touches wood) very reliable. Although I could really do a bit more space, so maybe one of these larger Crucial or Samsungs that everyone here seems to be able to get for mere pennies would be a good purchase?

I've still got programs and user data on "normal" disk and the difference in access time between the progs that have forced themselves onto the SSD and those on the HDD is noticable. Soon as 512MB SSD's come down to a price where I don't need an investment banker's bonus to be able to afford them, then I'll be moving to SSD for all main storage (keeping a 2TB HDD for holding backups).

Well, I doubt most of us will use it as a single drive in their rigs anyway. Most likely , their Windows and programs and games will be on the SSD and all the files like movies, music, etc. will be on a Hard drive.

Once you have used SSDs , your life will never be the same again. Things you will notice are :
- Super fast Windows boot up and shutdown times
- Super fast opening of programs

+1 on this, although I'm not fully "SSD enabled" yet - as said above, I'm still on HDD for most programs and user data.

Hmm, just looking at my Ubuntu box - that's currently got a 256MB HDD in it, but there's less than 25% used - so I'm thinking that "downgrading" to one of these 120GB Kingston SSD's might be a good idea. Or do folks think that the Crucial M4 is a better bet? One complication I've got is that because the Ubuntu system in question is an old Dell laptop, it's not going to be able to make use of SATA600.

[pollaxe]

You never really notice how fast your SSD systems are but you do notice how slow your mechanical drives are!
(At least that's been my experience.)

I'm a big fan of SSDs, my first was a G.Skill Falcon 128 some years ago and I've been a convert ever since. I've been on a bit of an M4 buying spree recently (thanks to HUKD) and have just snaffled up a 512 gb version otherwise I'd be dipping my toe here - great price.

[Platinum]

Tempted but with prices dropping all the time I am still waiting for a 480 / 512gb model, there was one cheap over at Ebuyer yesterday but I missed it (to close to payday).

[Noxvayl]

I'm confused by people waiting for 500+Gb SSD. My 256Gb M4 holds all my games, programs and the OS with space to spare... I wouldn't put anything else on an SSD. Pictures, videos and other media are wasted space on an SSD.

I just bought a 256Gb Crucial M4 so I'm not looking for an SSD at the moment. I'll need the price to be below £30 for 64Gb SSD's before I suggest upgrades to my family.

[Platinum]

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