Which SSD?

[F022Y]

Hello,

I asked awhile back about which SSD but a work colleague has thrown a spanner in the works which has made me rethink.

I was thinking about either a corsair f120, mushkin chronos or the crucial m4 but my colleague has bought a OCZ revodrive 3 x2 240GB and swears by it.

My question is, I play games and I have a NAS that i use as storage for video, pictures etc so the SSD will just be used for OS, office and the games I play (BF3, starcraft II, diablo 3 next month and generals 2 next year) I know the OCZ doesn't use TRIM which most people say is important but I'll hold my hands up and say that I'm new to SSD so I don't know.

What would you recommend?

[Phage]

Right now the Crucial M4 is the SSD of choice, but there are rumours of the OCZ Vertex 4 landing soon which will be the new standard.

I have a Vertex and it certainly does support TRIM. Don't know where you heard that.

[F022Y]

Sorry the OCZ revodrive is a PCI-e based SSD not Sata and as such uses NAND in a native raid 0 config.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-rev...press-ssd.html

[Colossous]

Yup - Crucial M4 here for over a year with no issues.

[Phage]

Sorry the OCZ revodrive is a PCI-e based SSD not Sata and as such uses NAND in a native raid 0 config.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-rev...press-ssd.html

Ah yes, the PCIE drives will be noticeably faster but will suffer from the lack of TRIM. Unless you have a real need such pure speed, I'd get the M4 now, or if you can wait the Vertex 4 which shouldn't be more than a few weeks away.

[F022Y]

Thanks for the responses so far, I'm very much one for future proofing and currently the HDD is the bottleneck currently in my system so I've saved for either an SSD and GPU, an uber GPU or an uber SSD.

Below are the current specs.

Asus Crosshair V
AMD PII 965 @ 4.1GHz (will go to PD depending on if it is an improvement over BD)
16GB DDR3 1600 (8 8 8 24 timings)
500GB WD sata
Asus HD5870

[Phage]

IMHO a revo drive would be overkill in your system. I'd be looking closely at the two I mentioned depending on your budget.

[Biscuit]

IMHO a revo drive would be overkill in your system. I'd be looking closely at the two I mentioned depending on your budget.

+1

If you are coming froma hard drive, a standard SSD will be enough of a boost for you to notice, a PCI-E one would be mostly wasted power.

[F022Y]

Current budget is at £500 but month on month goes up £100 lol

No rush btw just testing the water on what people think about the PCI-e SSD or if anyone had any experiance.

[bigdaz84]

I can't see past my Crucial M4 but it has been really reliable. Your SSD and GPU option as opposed to one being uber is quite open if you've got £500-600 to spend. You can easily get both

[F022Y]

Well I think the best course of action is to wait now, been looking at the M4 and the mushkin cronos as both options come in the 240GB area that I would want. GPU is a tricky one as I would be looking at either the 680 or 7970.

[Phage]

Well I think the best course of action is to wait now, been looking at the M4 and the mushkin cronos as both options come in the 240GB area that I would want. GPU is a tricky one as I would be looking at either the 680 or 7970.

Depends on your resolution, but most likely the 680.
The vertex 4 is now out, and comes with a five year warranty. But it would appear that the Crucial is still your best bet.
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/storag...d-256gb-512gb/

EDIT - Another contender.
http://hexus.net/tech/news/storage/3...tion-revealed/

[F022Y]

I currently run 1920 by 1200

[Phage]

A 680 then.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Wait two months more until you buy a new GPU. The GTX670 and GTX670TI will be out.

[ghost_florian]

I would advise you to buy a decent 512 GB SATA 3 SSD with your budget. The revodrive is indeed very fast, but its performance will degrade over time (especially with games, which involve many reads and writes per second). Both Crucial (m4) and OCZ (Vertex 4) have some very good 512GB drives that will fit your budget.

With 512GB, you'll have plenty of space for tons of games and applications. The only problem is that the Crosshair 5 does not have a very good SATA 3 controller, not as good as the Intel boards anyway.

If you only need a 240 GB Drive, buy Intel, Crucial, Kingston or SanDisk. Any one of them will perform great. If you really NEED it, I don't think it's worth waiting, as not too many new things will come in the near future (only price reductions).