Current SSD's?

[Craig234]

I last looked at SSD's a couple years ago; the Intel M25 80GB was 'the one to get' (about $250 on sale).

I've been using one for Windows 7 and World of Warcraft, and it seems to work well, though not have much space left (hard time installing the latest WoW patch).

Anyway, a burglar stole my extra SSD I had sitting around waiting to use for something, maybe a second system. They probably got 4 or 5 meth doses for it.

So, I'm not in urgent need of replacing it, but wondering, what is the one to get now, if I do shop for one? I heard there are improvements out.

Faster? Cheaper? Larger? Easier to use? Thanks.

 

[drizek]

Doesn't matter. Every SSD out right now is better than the old Intel drives. Basically just buy whatever is on sale when you need it. I really like my Crucial C300, but I could easily trade it for a sandfroce, samsung, intel, etc.

Also, Glenn Greenwald, not Gleen.

 

[Psyside]

Crucial C300, still the best, no matter of the new marketing mumbo jumbo, this drive is still the fastest regarding 4K random read speed, and thats what matters most!

On top of that is chepaer then the new inferior offerings, not always newer is better

 

[exdeath]

Whats the one on a PCIe card that is like 1000 MB/s R/W?

 

[drizek]

There are a bunch, but the Revo drive i think is consumer focused.

 

[Craig234]

Thanks for the replies. I see one post 'Crucial C300 is best', but another suggesting, it sounds like, there are many he'd upgrade to from that... I'll fix Glenn.

 

[Broheim]

Crucial C300, still the best, no matter of the new marketing mumbo jumbo, this drive is still the fastest regarding 4K random read speed, and thats what matters most!

On top of that is chepaer then the new inferior offerings, not always newer is better

wrong, both sequential and random matters.

the 128gb c300 costs the same as the 120gb corsair force 3(which is the one I would get), but the force 3 will dance circles around the c300.

 

[drizek]

Thanks for the replies. I see one post 'Crucial C300 is best', but another suggesting, it sounds like, there are many he'd upgrade to from that... I'll fix Glenn.

I didn't say that I would upgrade to anytoher other than the C300, just that the only reason I bought the C300 was that, at the time, it was the cheapest one. Really, they are all very fast, overkill even. In both random and sequential operations, current SSDs are faster than they have to be given their capacities. 500MB/s is pretty useless on a 64GB drive. Sure, it's cool to be able to mirror a drive in 2 minutes flat, but the 280MB/s speeds on the C300 aren't exactly slow either.

 

[Psyside]

wrong, both sequential and random matters.

the 128gb c300 costs the same as the 120gb corsair force 3(which is the one I would get), but the force 3 will dance circles around the c300.

As you like, its your money, and its not like the C300 have bad sequential speeds no?

300mb/s + read..point is, the random read performance are by far more important then sequnential, in every possible way, excpet if you maybe you use SSD for data transfer,or want 1/2 seconds faster load times in games, which i doubt.

 

[exdeath]

Scratch that on the PCIe Revo drives... Just made myself current on new stuff. The Vertex 3 / Force 3 drives with SATA III there is no point in wasting a PCIe slot for a non standard solution.

Two 120 GB Vertex 3 / Force 3 drives in RAID 0 on SATA III will best it while costing the same for the same capacity and taking up less space; the latter being important in SFF systems like the Shuttles where you have no PCIe open with a dual slot graphics card.