$130 30GB Vertex, $100 after MIR

[BababooeyHTJ]

I just bit on this at Newegg, sounds like a good deal to me. :biggrin:

 

[Orubasarot]

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[BababooeyHTJ]

I couldn't find a direct review but here is a 30GB Vertex vs a ram drive at Madshrimps. It''s an interesting read.
Link

 

[jjmIII]

Are these significantly slower than the 60s? Because if not then 2 of these sounds like a party.

@ 30gb, you'd need two..

Just too small unless you raid two IMO.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

@ 30gb, you'd need two..

Just too small unless you raid two IMO.

How so? My Windows 7 partition takes up 18.5GB right now. I'm sure that it could be trimmed down if need be.

 

[jjmIII]

I don't want to have to count gb's so closely I guess. As stated, just my opinion.

 

[garritynet]

In for one. I just want a boot drive. My 640gig WD drives are fast enough at loading my games.

 

[ESQ]

I noticed that Kingston has a 60 gig ssd drive for $80 at Frys (rebate today only--$109 after today).

http://www.frys.com/product/5943264?...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Noticed the speeds are less but are they that significant?

 

[drewstylz]

The OCZ drive has TRIM. The Kingston doesn't and probably won't, if ever, for a long time. Check out Anandtech's latest SSD article and see if it matters to you.

ZZF also has the 60gb OCZ Agility drive (slightly slower than Vertex, but has TRIM support) for $180AR http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10010538

 

[Alphafox78]

the Kingstone drive is for in store pickup only... WTF?!

 

[bryanW1995]

I looked at that 60 gb kingston at newegg before eventually getting an x25 g2 80gb from newegg for $215 FS the other day. I did some research on the memory/storage forum, come to find out the slower kingston uses samsung tech instead of intel. It is still faster than a raptor, but not enough of a speed bump in most people's minds (even current ssd owners) to justify the price jump. Also, with such a tiny drive and no trim you will see pretty significant performance degradation over time.

Intel drives are monsters on reads and so-so on writes. I'm not going to do much writing at all, I mostly game. I get bottlenecked specifically right now in nwn2, it takes quite a while to switch from area to the next and I'm hopeful that I'll see a big jump going to this drive. Also, 80 gb and with trim will enable me to put my current 3 or 4 games onto the ssd, with the option to put just about anything that I use a lot onto it.

If you are buying a hd right now, indilinx and intel are the top dogs. they both have trim (need g2 for intel however) as a bonus if you're a win 7 user. you will know they're indilinx if it's ocz/patriot/corsair with ~ 250MB/s read. on intel just make sure you get g2 drives b/c g1 is not trim-compatible. for the drives listed at newegg, just read the model #, you'll see g1 in it for the older ones and g2 for the newer ones.

Just checked newgg, they have the 80gb g1 drive available for 259 right now, but the g2 drive is cheaper (only 215 still) but sold out with no eta on replacements. All the 30 gb ocz drives look like indilinx units. Beware of the kingston units. some as mentioned are intel-based and some are samsung. The samsung drives are crap but priced about the same. The intel-based units don't have trim right now but will probably get it within a few months. The 40gb kingston that is currently sold out is the one anand talked about in his review, that's a quality drive if they ever get more of them.

 

[bryanW1995]

nm...

 

[ahodge]

You know, $139 for a Runcore SSD is regular price and puts these Vertex drives to shame...Just saying. The Runcores are harder to get (direct or from mydigitaldiscount.com) and they don't update firmware as often or have as good of support as the OCZ drives, but just thought I'd put that out there. A lot of people don't know Runcore but, they're really one of the all around fastest SSDs out there. Beat Intel 1st gen drives overall. Dunno about the second gen, but at least they don't have all the firmware problems Intel drives have had. I've got one in my eeepc and I love it. Gonna put one in my desktop as soon as they come back in stock at mydigitaldiscount (bit cheaper than direct).
-Alex

Reading material:
http://runcore.com/
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/2...c_series_2_5_inch_solid_state_disk/index.html