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Read more.£190 for a quality 120GB solid-state drive powered by the SandForce controller. What's the catch?
Great review Tarinder, its a shame it didnt appear like a week ago when i was looking at bits but oh well
Are prices likely to be hiked? I deliberately dropped these out of my last order because the prices dropped from 220 to 190 in the space of a few days so i figured in a couple of months they may have dropped a further £20-30
FYI, the Vertex 2E BigFoot is a fair chunk cheaper, same board, just in a 3.5" frame.
Originally Posted by Agent
r_j_k_p (29-09-2010)
Didn't realise that they started doing this. will definately have to take a look at these when it comes to upgrading the drive in my desktop. Shame can only find one retailer selling them currently.
edit, ignore that last bit. stupid google products
I got one of these a few weeks ago, for £215... Damn good drive although I must point out that SMART compatibility is a bit of an issue with Gigabyte BIOS. Most their boards have beta BIOS to fix the issue but there are a few without.
Mine had the required BIOS update so everything is perfect, although there is no difference in performance just a few seconds extra on your AHCI check on start up.
You guys need to check out the new OCZ IBIS review on Anandtech. It's very fast indeed
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
This has been my favourite drive for a while now to imagine buying, not only is it fast but OCZ has a strong relationship with Sandforce so you're going to get regular firmware updates for sure, which is extremely important, still waiting for the "next-gen" Sandforce controller with SATA 6gb/s support though, they've hinted at read and write speeds in excess of 500mb/s, which is crazy.
Also I don't get why you bother to test SSDs in RAID at the minute, it's an extremely interesting and desirable concept, but since there's currently no TRIM support on any level for RAID the entire thing is pointless. :|
Not completely pointless.
Anandtech confirmed my thoughts on the TRIM front by RAIDing two drives but creating a smaller than full capacity 'disk' - this left plenty of spare area over and they seen very little drop off.
It might be in the Intel 40GB article they discuss it.
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
criteriaOCZ Vertex 2E ticks many of the
criterions for a premium SSD.
I just put a 60gb vertex 2 in a 3 year old notebook that doesnt even support ahci and the response is still amazing. I think the amd 2ghz x2 is the bottleneck in the more io intensive tasks, i.e. virus scans and installations
Criterion is a valid word.
But since when was the plural of criterion, criterions? The plural of criterion is "criteria".Criterion is a valid word.
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Both forms of the word - criterions and criteria - are in regular use. From Merriam-Webster - plural -ria \-ē-ə\ also cri·te·ri·ons
People are now using criteria to mean for the singular, so I made sure there was no ambiguity with criterions.
But let's close this and get back on the review topic, please
Last edited by Tarinder; 29-09-2010 at 08:16 PM.
I got one about 6 weeks back and its a little stonker of a drive, not to bother that I paided £260 as well due to its performance.
Think I'm going to pick one of these up this weekend but is there anything I need to know about having an SSD boot drive first - I've come across folk recommending a format every 6 or so months?
I have a HP DM3, can I stick one of these in it?
I believe that laptop uses a regular 2.5in SATA hard-drive as main storage. This being the case, ther is no reason why you can't use this SSD instead.
Simply grab a program like Acronis Backup and copy over the contents of the HP drive, assuming they're less than 120GB.
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