I'm not 100% set on Newegg, but that's where I normally buy PC stuff from. I'll buy elsewhere if they have a better deal/

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=636&name=SSD

I'm pretty sure I want a 64GB, but will consider other options. Plz to help.

11/29/2010 10:52:30 AM

i bought this one last month

Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 2.5" 128GB SATA III
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148348

great newegg feedback rating

i wish i had gotten a bigger drive though. i've already only got like 15 GB left

11/29/2010 11:26:49 AM

fred



did you see any significant performance increases? much faster load times? faster OS boot times?


I assume you are using it as the OS drive, and not secondary storage.

11/29/2010 11:31:48 AM

oh yeah man, i'm so happy with it. laptop shuts down in < 15 seconds, boots to login screen in < 20 seconds. all my apps open really quick

11/29/2010 11:37:40 AM

/jealous


i should really research this shit. Last time i looked at SSD, the performance gains were shit.

11/29/2010 11:41:08 AM

Do you want it for a desktop or a laptop, synapse?

11/29/2010 11:55:43 AM

for me it's all about the seek times. i don't do a lot of sustained sequential reads/write on the machine this is going in.

^^ does gaming do a lot of writing to the hard drive or something? i'm trying to figure out why the gains would be shit...

^ it'll be going in a 4-5 year old dell laptop currently booting XP

thanks for the recommendation qntm, but i think that particular drive costs more than the laptop is worth . i'll check out their smaller ones though...

11/29/2010 11:58:22 AM

I saw some good deals on the OCZ Vertex2 and Kingston V-series that were in the $90-$115 range for 60GB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?&Item=N82E16820227550

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139134

[Edited on November 29, 2010 at 12:35 PM. Reason : .]

11/29/2010 12:34:00 PM

are you sure your 5 year old laptop even has SATA? I had to get a KING drive or whatever it's called. Only vendor that has IDE SSD. I needed it for a rugged type operation, not just the speed.

For what it's worth my laptop was significantly faster coming from a 7200RPM.

11/29/2010 12:37:55 PM

^It's SATA...must have been one of the first.

^^ thx for the links

11/29/2010 1:32:30 PM

I too am shopping for an SSD



I've been thinking about the hybrid SSD/7200 rpm drive that WD makes (the 500GB with the 4GB SSD), but I've read some real horror stories about it online. There's a good percentage of people who love it, but there's about 1 in 4 who tell some of the scariest data/loss hardware failure stories ever.



I wish I could justify the cost of a 256GB SSD.... but I really can't.

11/29/2010 1:42:06 PM

^ i've been using a hybrid for ~4 months now. no problems, but it doesn't feel any faster on booty/app loads than the 7200 i had before it.

11/29/2010 1:57:25 PM

damn, that's good to know. I do not like to waste the $$$ if I can help it.

11/29/2010 2:05:49 PM

I finally took the plunge, my 120 gig G.Skill SandForce based drive will be here tomorrow, I can't wait.

11/29/2010 2:09:10 PM

^^ As I'm sure you're aware, it's supposed to load the stuff you access the most into flash, but I can't tell any difference between it and the 7200. I'm assuming it's marginally faster in some respects, but it's not noticeable to me.

If I needed a new hard drive anyway, I'd pay a little more to get it, but imo it's not worth 'upgrading' to unless you have a use in mind for the drive it's replacing, and even then it seems like it's silly to do that unless you need tons of space and/or can't justify the price/GB of an ssd

11/29/2010 2:09:15 PM

I got a vertex 2, was about 3 times faster than the 7200 rpm drive it replaced..

Then i encrypted it (which if figured would effect performance). Now its about the same speed as a 7200 rpm drive.

11/29/2010 2:09:33 PM

Quote :

"Now its about the same speed as a 7200 rpm drive"

...in sequential read/writes right? i'm assuming you're still seeing benefits from the greatly reduced random seek times...

11/29/2010 2:11:26 PM

In random access type scenarios

it cut it from about 10x performance of a 7200 to about 4x performance of a 7200.

11/29/2010 3:34:26 PM

Quote :

"I got a vertex 2,"

Yeah I picked up a 60gig one a couple months ago. LOVE IT. Thinking about getting a second one and doing RAID 0 for my boot drive.

11/29/2010 4:04:43 PM

any other recommendations?

11/30/2010 8:40:53 AM

if you're using a desktop, you'll get more benefit/$ from a velociraptor. 300gb 10k rpm 32mb cache from WD. should be ~150$

11/30/2010 1:27:39 PM

naw it's just a laptop used mostly for internet browsing. i just got the vertex 2

11/30/2010 2:09:56 PM

^^That doesn't make any sense. If you're buying an SSD you're obviously paying the premium for faster read/write times. The Velociraptor won't give you near the performance of an SSD. I've got two of them in Raid 0 and they're still not close to the performance of an SSD. I guess it all depends on what you're using them for. 60 gigs is plenty for a boot drive for the OS. I'm adding another one soon for RAID0 and that will cover my OS plus programs/games.

Would not recommend getting a velociraptor. Pay the extra and get an SSD, especially if it's for a desktop because you have the option for cheap HDD's for storage and thus don't need a massive boot drive.

^sweet good choice.

[Edited on November 30, 2010 at 2:15 PM. Reason : s]

11/30/2010 2:15:30 PM

My 36GB first gen Raptor is throwing out SMART codes. I've cloned to another drive but it's still chugging away. I'm considering an SSD as well, but I can't really afford to drop too much coin -- especially since I'd rather replace this MSI backup 775 motherboard.

11/30/2010 2:31:12 PM

for what I do, the raptor is about on par in some things and dominates in others. I do a lot of sequential reads and writes (loading zones for an mmo lets say or transcoding video). My random access is limited but you can enable superfetch and readyboost to boost that to near premium ssd levels for ~$20 (decent usb drive).

11/30/2010 8:14:20 PM

i went and got a SSD on my laptop and it functions beautifully, cold to fully functional in a little over 10 seconds flat.

12/2/2010 1:28:49 AM

Quote :

"My random access is limited"

That's what you think


What does the raptor dominate a modern SSD in anyway (like a Vertex 2)...*some* sequential writes? Whats a good site to compare benchmarks for two random drives?

12/2/2010 9:11:16 AM

Yeah I'd like to race your raptor. I've been using a 256GB SSD for a while now and it's absolutely awesome.

12/2/2010 10:29:02 AM

Quote :

"My random access is limited but you can enable superfetch and readyboost to boost that to near premium ssd levels for ~$20 (decent usb drive)."

Not only no, but hell no. Unless youve got some magical usb 3.0 drive. USB 2.0 tops out at ~ 45mb/sec. A decent SSD will do 180-220mb/sec all day long for reads.

An SSD is at least 2x the performance of your raptor in any consumer environment. Unless you're doing some crazy ass highly randomized continuous read/writes 24/7, theres no comparison.

12/2/2010 8:03:00 PM

Ended up getting the Vertex 2 and am currently running XP on it, soon to move to Windows 7...couldn't be happier as this thing flies. It's much faster than that silly hybrid drive (4GB flash onboard + 7200RPM) I had too.

Quote :

"Unless you're doing some crazy ass highly randomized continuous read/writes 24/7, theres no comparison."

What kind of situations are those? From the little bit of reading I've done it looks like many current SSDs, (especially the Sandforce based ones) put down 260 MB/s+ for both sequential reads and sequential writes...so how could any hard disk compete? Isn't the Velociraptor's read and write speeds like half of that?

1/12/2011 11:50:35 AM

Super heavy production database servers. And ... Well that's pretty much it.

1/12/2011 4:05:28 PM

wasn't that why the developed the Velociraptor? They went to 2.5" and targeted the database servers at enterprise level with a 10,000rpm small footprint hard drive. I don't think it was ever designed for consumer use, although it's sold retail. I mean it has a 1.4 million hour MTBF for crying out loud.

1/12/2011 4:20:58 PM

Yep.

1/12/2011 4:41:11 PM

I got a OCZ vertex 120GB on my work pc, it is great. Ubuntu boots up in a matter of seconds.

For me, 120GB is plenty for OS, apps, and files I'm working with frequently. Bulk storage goes on network file server.

1/12/2011 7:56:09 PM

I'm waiting for the new intel ssd's to come out. suppose to bring the prices down significantly. Ideally, a 300gb size would be great, but probably more like the 120-160 range would be in my price range.

1/12/2011 8:10:18 PM

^it will being the price of INTEL ssd's down, but not below the sandforce prices. It's going to be a while before SSD's drop below $1/gig

1/12/2011 8:47:47 PM

i mentioned in the second post i bought a 120 GB SSD ~9 months ago.

i want to upgrade to like a 240 or 256 GB SSD now. any recommendations?

6/18/2011 10:24:29 AM

OCZ Vertex3, if you're going to spend the money just make sure it's SATA III

[Edited on June 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM. Reason : .]

6/18/2011 11:41:19 AM

I have one on my laptop, definitely a good choice both for durability concerns and for speed.

6/18/2011 11:53:55 AM

Yeah Vertex 2 both in my desktop and laptop. Just make sure you get the older 34nm drives. They're much faster. Or if you're lucky and have Sata3 pick up a Vertex 3.

6/18/2011 11:57:38 AM

bought a 256GB Samsung on ebay today for $225 *crosses fingers*

1/11/2012 10:40:18 AM

I'm running two Kingston SSD NOW V+ 256gb drives (sata II) on my work VM Server. http://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/vplus

Not nearly the top-end performance of the consumer drives, but they have been completely reliable. And cost <$1/gb.

For a regular desktop, get a SATAIII drive and just backup your data regularly. The performance gains are work the data risk.

1/11/2012 12:18:27 PM

Quote :

"And cost <$1/gb"

where do you get that? on newegg they are $1.5/gb

1/11/2012 12:59:21 PM

i know the SSD NOWs approach $1/GB at the 64GB level...looks like they occasionally get there at higher capacities too: http://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php#firstonly=1&forumchoice%5B%5D=9&pp=100&q=SSDNOW

1/11/2012 1:56:24 PM

I'm also looking for an SSD, probably 128GB, for my gaming PC. Why do all SSD deals involve rebates?

1/11/2012 6:12:57 PM

i got dat crucial m4

feels good man

1/12/2012 10:18:58 AM

http://www.provantage.com/ocz-technology-str-msata-30g~7OCZD02X.htm

I'm hoping this will work fine for a Zotac ZBox I'm building to mount behind a 46"?

[Edited on January 12, 2012 at 10:33 AM. Reason : link]

1/12/2012 10:33:26 AM

Quote :

"where do you get that? on newegg they are $1.5/gb"

Discounts and rebates. These drives were routinely at or under $1/gb most of the fall of 2011 from different etailers.

1/12/2012 2:32:52 PM

i've been keeping my eye out for a 256 GB drive for months. i never saw any deals that good *shrug*

1/12/2012 2:41:09 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=u8941t4032944f9fp70408dd0c0s701&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16820227727

Deal today, OCZ Agility III 240gb SATA III 6gb/s drive, WITH Mass Effect 3 PC for $230 AR

3/6/2012 6:56:43 PM