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ou_phidelt
03-14-10, 03:55 PM
I am looking to try out SSD's again. I tried one of the earlier OCZ drives and it was a stuttering nightmare. This is just a boot drive so it doesn't need to be huge, anything around 50GB's would be plenty. I assume I want TRIM support, so anything out there? I can live with used if need be.
ratbuddy
03-14-10, 04:10 PM
I am looking to try out SSD's again. I tried one of the earlier OCZ drives and it was a stuttering nightmare. This is just a boot drive so it doesn't need to be huge, anything around 50GB's would be plenty. I assume I want TRIM support, so anything out there? I can live with used if need be.

At that price range look at the 60GB OCZ Agility or Vertex.
Vengance_01
03-14-10, 04:24 PM
The new Kingston drives are not bad at that price. 60GB with Trim for around 150$
baris_
03-14-10, 04:38 PM
If you'll only use it for boot just get a 30GB Vertex Turbo. That'll be plently.

Edit: Don't know about TRIM.
tuskenraider
03-14-10, 07:47 PM
At that price range look at the 60GB OCZ Agility or Vertex.+1 They have the best drive support so I'd stick with them. Good deal for either here. (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1500706&highlight=ocz+vertex)
jarlmaster47
03-14-10, 08:04 PM
the agility is EPIC!!!! get that for sure. the new kingston drives are great as well
tachi1247
03-16-10, 09:26 PM
The kingston drives aren't as good as the vertex or agility so I would stick with ocz unless there is a big price difference pushing you in that direction.

edit: back-up evidence here (http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3747&p=9)
c627627
03-17-10, 12:43 AM
I bough this for $129 after rebate but now they're $169 AR http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227461


Unless you can get a good deal on Vertex, the price difference is too much to justify going with Vertex for most people.

There are only a handful of SSDs worth considering, most are crap. Some cheap ones are not better than a good mechanical HD.
gear.h34d.2012
03-17-10, 12:52 AM
Intel X25-V 40GB SSD. $129. Amazing drive.
Vengance_01
03-17-10, 01:03 AM
not at 130$. The drive it self is good as a boot drive, but low write speeds do suck. Maybe if it was around 75-80$, then I would say good deal.
gear.h34d.2012
03-17-10, 01:05 AM
Well that's all I use it for :D Get me into windows and I'll let mt Raptor do the rest.
ou_phidelt
03-17-10, 06:57 AM
Is the stuttering and other issues that plagues early SSD's gone now? How about degradation issues?
c627627
03-17-10, 11:11 AM
Well there never used to be any SSDs to speak of really. When Anandtech did SSD reviews, he used to use the word 'crap' to describe every SSD other than high end Intel SSD.


Now we have a few that are half way decent, but only a few.
ou_phidelt
03-21-10, 09:26 PM
I think I am leaning towards the Intel drive. I don't count rebates so that limits things signifcantly. From what I have read it's main drawback is sequential writes but since it is an OS drive what I need is fast random writes, which it has. Is my logic correct?
c627627
03-21-10, 10:04 PM
There used to be no choices other than certain Intel models so people who bought them experienced "nightmares" as you did.

Today you have OCZ Agility as a good price to performance competitor to high end expensive Intel. Agility 60 GB is (almost) 60 GB of space you can write on whereas Intel's is not, you lose like 5GBs with Intel because of the old "what's a GB on box vs. OS" hard drive question, I'm surprised OCZ didn't market this as their advantage.

Compare specs of high end vs. Intel's value models, they are not the same, value models are slower. Consider Agility and remember there are only a handful of SSD models today worth considering. When you bought your old one there used be zero models worth considering if you didn't count the at that time hugely expensive Intel.
Neuromancer
03-21-10, 10:05 PM
Not sure if it is my mobo or the SSD my 60GB corsair unit keeps dissappearing from BIOS :(

Might want to stay away from them
c627627
03-21-10, 10:46 PM
The SSD Anthology article by Anand Lal Shimpi of Anandtech was clear: Intel X25-M was awesome, everything else in the market at that time was crap. His own words were "everything else in the market was crap." So I don't know why people were surprised.


When he updated the famous SSD Anthology article, Anand said that Intel finally had one competitor, the Indilinx based OCZ Vertex.

OCZ Agility is not that much worse than the OCZ Vertex and it is also Indilinx.
ou_phidelt
03-22-10, 04:35 PM
Ended up with a 60GB Vertex. Found one for $157 and couldn't resist.
c627627
03-22-10, 05:09 PM
Where? After rebates etc.?
ou_phidelt
03-22-10, 05:32 PM
Where? After rebates etc.?

NIB off a guy over at anandtech.
c627627
03-22-10, 06:23 PM
Vertex 60GB SSD is $136 after rebates and cash back etc. so the guy would make $21 if he can collect everything.
Headstand
03-22-10, 06:30 PM
OCZ Agility will be the shocker tomorrow. Hopefully it is the 60GB for $129 after MIR again.
ou_phidelt
03-22-10, 08:12 PM
Vertex 60GB SSD is $136 after rebates and cash back etc. so the guy would make $21 if he can collect everything.

Then we will both be happy. I can't stand rebates. I have never messed with them. To me it's like giving an interest free loan, that's assuming you get it back at all. Looking around I don't see any rebates on them right now anyways. I haven't tried BCB yet, heck I have made a big purchase in quite a while but am shopping for a new notebook and the 10% at Dell looks interesting.
c627627
03-22-10, 08:29 PM
In about 5 1/2 hours we'll find out the 12 hour sale price on the Agility on newegg ;).
ou_phidelt
03-23-10, 06:04 AM
In about 5 1/2 hours we'll find out the 12 hour sale price on the Agility on newegg ;).

$124AR, very nice deal.
JustChill
03-23-10, 05:58 PM
Not sure if it is my mobo or the SSD my 60GB corsair unit keeps dissappearing from BIOS :(

Might want to stay away from them

Mine does the same exact thing. You have to disconnect the power to it and reconnect the power again, then boot up.

There is a thread over at Corsair forum about this...you should post something!

thread over at corsair (http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=85732)
ou_phidelt
03-27-10, 05:38 PM
I got it today and I couldn't be happier. Good grief the speed is unreal. Everything is pretty much instant. By far the best money I have every put into a computer.
Neuromancer
03-27-10, 06:05 PM
Mine does the same exact thing. You have to disconnect the power to it and reconnect the power again, then boot up.

There is a thread over at Corsair forum about this...you should post something!

thread over at corsair (http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=85732)

I have posted over there in another reactor series thread and started my own (with no reposnse) but I believe I may have solved it myself.

When they "recommend AHCI" mode for the other two drives... I think it is not a recommendation at all but a necessity.

Going to give it 24 hours or so and see if it makes any difference. So far though it it appears in the AHCI boot menu every time. What is weird is that my DVDRW still appears under the normal POST menu but my storage drive does not. (Don't get me wrong it shouldn't... dont think I have ever had a board smart enough to not list my DVDRW as AHCI though lol)