£100ish SSD

Is the OCZ Vertex 2e (60GB) still the best (fastest read/write) SSD for around the £100 mark at the moment?

I know the F60 is pretty much identicle, with the same sandforce controlller, but i have read they have a high failure rate.

Also, does anyone know if i would be better to wait a few months for anything even faster to be released?

Thanks

OCZ has a high failure rate too from what I've heard. What do you need it for? If it's just a boot drive I would get a crucial C300. If it's for file copying etc then chance your arm with an OCZ and rely on customer service maybe.

Yeh it will be a boot drive for windows 7.

Crucial C300 = Read 355MB/s, Write 70MB/s

Vertex 2E = Read 285MB/s, Write 275MB/s

The question is does the 70MB/s increase in read speed of the C300 really overshadow the loss of 205MB/s of the write speed!!?

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Originally Posted by r_j_k_p

Yeh it will be a boot drive for windows 7.

Crucial C300 = Read 355MB/s, Write 70MB/s

Vertex 2E = Read 285MB/s, Write 275MB/s

The question is does the 70MB/s increase in read speed of the C300 really overshadow the loss of 205MB/s of the write speed!!?

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Well when the Sandforce SSD conks out, it doesn't matter how fast it was.

My Corsair F60 failed after 24hours, and I didn't fancy taking the risk on another Sandforce SSD. The F60 was a cracking SSD while it worked though.

For a boot drive just get the Crucial. Will be quicker if anything for booting.

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Crucial C300 = Read 355MB/s, Write 70MB/s

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That's assuming you have a decent SATA3 controller too. I've found running it on my Intel SATA2 controller faster than running it on my Marvell SATA3 controller.

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6628/sata.jpg

There are some good board out now which utilise Crucial C300 bandwidth.

AFAIK its only the Corsairs with the crappy firmware that die out, I imagine OCZ's are about inline with Crucials and Intels in terms of reliability.

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That's assuming you have a decent SATA3 controller too. I've found running it on my Intel SATA2 controller faster than running it on my Marvell SATA3 controller.

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I have a p35 board with SATA boards at 3GBPS.

how does that limit the potential 355MB/s

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Originally Posted by r_j_k_p

I have a p35 board with SATA boards at 3GBPS.

how does that limit the potential 355MB/s

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the throughput of sata2 (which is what you have) is ~300MB/s, so you will lose ~55MB/s

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Originally Posted by ehhhhhhh

the throughput of sata2 (which is what you have) is ~300MB/s, so you will lose ~55MB/s

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In that case the only thing a c300 has over a vertex 2e is an extra 15MB/s read speed and it fails miserably when looking at write speeds, therefore in my eyes there can only be one winner.

OCZ Vertex 2E

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Originally Posted by r_j_k_p

In that case the only thing a c300 has over a vertex 2e is an extra 15MB/s read speed and it fails miserably when looking at write speeds, therefore in my eyes there can only be one winner.

OCZ Vertex 2E

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I'm planning to buy one of these too, though I would be happy with the same speed for the same price but with around 100-120GB capacity :undecided: I'll wait a couple of months and we'll see

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they're both identical in performance etc so i would just go for the cheapest (currently the vertex 2e). both have similar failure rates (corsair perhaps slightly higher on reading around) so i would just go on price (i've got a corsair in my lappy and in my desktop at work and its fantastic, power to windows in under 20 seconds)

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That's where my info is coming from.