SATAII will top out at ~380MB/s
Not many drives go over that and the ones that do, do not go over it by much.
Look at the transfer speeds for the drives you are considering and weigh up the pros and cons.
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SATAII will top out at ~380MB/s
Not many drives go over that and the ones that do, do not go over it by much.
Look at the transfer speeds for the drives you are considering and weigh up the pros and cons.
Sounds like I'm best off saving a bit of cash. So looking at that 120 GB drive you linked, is there anything I need to look at or is it a steal and I should just order it today? Will it still be available next week?
http://www.dabs.com/products/corsair...m_content=TB00Quote:
Originally Posted by dulcificum
spend the extra bit, seriously.
It's a trade-off.
(As far as 120GB drives go) The best drives on the market are £140-160.
The £100 OCZ is a special (probably being sold off, so while stocks last)....but it is a lot slower then the M4 and the sammy.....but still TONS faster then a normal HDD.
Then you have the "middle" ground....like the force series 3 here
Personally, if I were buying now....I could choose drives from each of the 3 price brackets depending on what I was planning on using it for and the budget I could justify for the job.
I have a first generation OCZ Vertex which is more or less the same drive as the OCZ Vertex Plus. Boot is much faster than a Samsung F3 and applications launch much quicker.
However,one word of warning,the SMART data reporting with the first generation Vertex drives is a tad glitchy. Most of the time I am not sure I can trust it.
Well I was only planning on buying a 60/64GB drive but it seems they are all at least £70. So I thought why not spend £30 more and get 120GB so I don't need to worry so much about software.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadduckUK
What 60/64GB drive would you recommend?
Given I'm going to be installing my OS on it (and don't want to lose that), is it worth going for this 120GB OCZ? Frankly, I'm very very very tempted in light of the 3.55 patch.
SMART is buggy in what way exactly?Quote:
Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH
Reports that the drives are wearing out at a quicker rate than what is actually happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by dulcificum
One way is ignorant, the other incompetent. Besides, they were ignoring the problem for some time, deleting forum posts and blaming chipsets IIRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
The max transfer is 3Gbit/s, or 375MB/s, but with encoding that means a max possible data transfer rate of 300MB/s. Many SSD drives can and do significantly exceed that, even in random access transfers. Whether it will make much of a difference is another matter, depending on the drive. Also remember that some drives which don't exceed 300MB/s still perform better on a Sata 6G port.Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
So am I being an idiot going for this £100 offer or not?
Not at all, I doubt you'll be disappointed. :)
As long as post-patch I won't end up with data loss or having to reinstall my OS I'll be very happy. Although £100 is A LOT! Def not worth trying a 64GB instead?
That £100 Vertex Plus doesn't use the troublesome Sandforce controller the vertex 3 uses so you should be fine. Of course, no drive is guaranteed to keep your data intact so you should make regular backups regardless.
All valuable data will be on a RAID-6 or in the cloud - it's just a pain in the arse having to reinstall OS. Think I'll take the plunge unless there are similar offers for ~60GB drives...
Not that I know of, you won't save much by going to a lower capacity but it's up to you if you'd rather save a bit knowing you won't use the extra capacity or go a bit over budget getting one that will give you more headroom. Also, the larger capacities tend to be faster because of the greater number of physical flash chips.
You ideally would want around 30% of the SSD free too.
SSD prices look more resonable now in comparision to the over priced normal drives! I might need to a get a few SSD drives in :D