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    Best SSD @ ~£100?

    If I decided to spend roughly £100 on an SSD what is my best bet? There is the Intel x-25V 40GB at about £90, the 60GB Corsair R60 at £95, a 64GB kingston SSDNow at £100 and also the WD silicon Blue edge at £104 which is also 64GB. Where does the smart money go?
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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    On non tbh, rather buy a decent HD for that much or save up and get a intel 80gb gen 2.

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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    But why bother spending upward of £150 for a boot drive? You're missing the point slightly, I just want some storage, I hardly ever use much HDD space anyway, i currently only have 100gb worth of files in total and that includes the OS. If I got an SSD I would be storing my other files on my old HDD which is a maxtor 200GB drive. Is is perhaps an idea to get one of those seagate hybrid drives and kill two birds with one stone?
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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    Not sure how well those seagate drives actually run, they do decrease boot time but not to the extent of a SSD as the drive has to shunt the data to the memory first. Again they perform very well with tasks that are run multiple times as the drive learns what to use but otherwise just perform like a standard HD, that said around the £100 will get you a 500gig one with 4gig of memory.

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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post
    But why bother spending upward of £150 for a boot drive? You're missing the point slightly, I just want some storage, I hardly ever use much HDD space anyway, i currently only have 100gb worth of files in total and that includes the OS. If I got an SSD I would be storing my other files on my old HDD which is a maxtor 200GB drive. Is is perhaps an idea to get one of those seagate hybrid drives and kill two birds with one stone?
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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    out of all of them the intel x25v 40gb is the fastest and most responsive, kingston is probably the worst out of them and crossair reactor has some major problem with not bieng seen by bioses half the time

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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post
    You're missing the point slightly
    You might be missing the point slightly too. What you'll miss out on smaller drive isn't just the capacity, but performance too. You may find the hit acceptable for the money saved, or perhaps that deviate far too much from your original budget, but one could certainly argue that it's better value long(er) term.

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/3756/2...ake-on-intel/7

    BTW, if you need so little capacity, then it doesn't make much sense to go hybrid. The latest hybrids are certainly competitive with high end mechanical drives (i.e. Velociraptor), but they still get murdered by SSD when it comes to random 4k performance. So if you don't need the capacity, stick with SSD.

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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    Quote Originally Posted by TooNice View Post
    You might be missing the point slightly too. What you'll miss out on smaller drive isn't just the capacity, but performance too. You may find the hit acceptable for the money saved, or perhaps that deviate far too much from your original budget, but one could certainly argue that it's better value long(er) term.

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/3756/2...ake-on-intel/7

    BTW, if you need so little capacity, then it doesn't make much sense to go hybrid. The latest hybrids are certainly competitive with high end mechanical drives (i.e. Velociraptor), but they still get murdered by SSD when it comes to random 4k performance. So if you don't need the capacity, stick with SSD.
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    The point is for me to have a boot drive. That's it. Therefore 40-64GB is sufficient and I am so used to a slow and terrible hard drive that any SSD will be fast enough. Therefore I reckon that More capacity can only be a good thing, especially if it's from such a good brand. I think I'll take terbinator's advice anyway, if I take the plunge.
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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    I think the Intel 40GB is the best bet for this purpose for sure, or the (I believe now discontinued) Kingston rebrand of the same drive.


    Kingston SSD naming structure is almost Nvidiaesque in its nonsensical nature but it was a V series 40GB I think, may still be available some places, I'm not too sure about firmware support vs the identical Intel.

    http://www.trustedreviews.com/storag...Upgrade-Kit/p1

    I'm not an SSD expert but I think for a boot drive what you really want is random/read write, which the Intel controller is really strong at. If you were using for editing or something you would need more sequential read/write which Indilinx controllers are more suited for (I may be spouting complete nonsense)

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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    OCZ Vertex 30GB, no doubt, sub £100 also!

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    Re: Best SSD @ ~£100?

    I think I saw somewhere a comparison between the 64 GB C300 and the intel 40 giga and the
    C300 came a bit better even in the 4k's.

    £118 at crucial and you can get 7% cashback at quidco.

    http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/part...DDAC064MAG-1G1

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