[DungeonLord]

well i've ordered a force 1761 laptop from xoticpc

specs
- Display: 17.3" FHD 16:9 "Matte Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright LED Matte Screen (1920x1080) (SKU - X1R553)
- Monitor Calibration: NO Professional Monitor Color Calibration
- Dead Pixel Warranty: Contact us about our Significant Savings on our 30-Day No Dead Pixel Warranty. Heavily Discounted!
- Processor: 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM, 2.2-3.1GHz, (32nm, 6MB L3 cache) - Limited Availability (SKU - X2N167)
- Thermal Compound: Stock OEM Thermal Compound ( IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU Provided FREE with Processor Upgrade!)
- Graphics Video Card: nVidia GeForce GTX 570M 1,536MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11 (SKU - X3R454)
- External Display Video Adapters: No Video Adapter
- Ram: 8GB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory (2x4GB SODIMMS) - Default (SKU - X4N340)
- Exterior Finish: Standard Finish
- Primary Hard Drive: 750GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Buffer (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s) (SKU - X5R304)
- Second Hard Drive: No Second Hard Drive (Primary Hard Drive Required When Adding a Secondary Hard Drive) (SKU - X6R953)
- Raid: HDD Raid Settings - OFF
- Optical Drive Bay: Combo Dual Layer SuperMulti DVDRW/CDRW Drive w/ Software (SKU - X7R451)
- Optical Drive Bay Hard Drive Caddy: No Extra Optical Bay Hard Drive Caddy
- External Hard Drive (Back Up): No Back Up Hard Drive
- External USB Optical Drive: NO External USB Optical Drive
- Floppy Drive: No Floppy Drive
- Memory Card Reader: Internal 7-in-1 Card Reader (MS/MS Pro/MS Duo/MS Pro Duo/SD/Mini-SD/MMC/RS)
- Back Up Software: No Back Up Software
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth Included (See “Wireless Network” Section Below)
- Wireless Network: Bigfoot Networks Killer™ Wireless-N 1103 (3x3) (ETA: 2/28/2012) (SKU - X8R052)
- Wireless Network Accessories: No Network Accessory
- Camera: Integrated Digital Video Camera
- TV Tuner: No TV Tuner
- Sound Card: Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio - Included
- Case: No Carrying Case
- Battery: Smart Li-ion Battery (9-Cell)
- Car Adapter: No Car Adapter
- Spare AC Adapter: No Spare AC Adapter
- Port Replicator / Dock / Adapters: No Dock/Hub/Adapter
- Fingerprint Reader: No Fingerprint Reader
- Headsets: No Headset
- Mouse / Keyboard Accessories: No External Keyboard or Mouse
- Notebook Cooler: No Notebook Cooler
- XOTIC PC Redline Boost™ Extreme Performance: No Thanks, Please do not Overclock my system
- OS Redline Boost: No Operating System Redline Boost
- Operating System: No Operating System Standard - Drivers & Utility Software Only
- Microsoft Office Software: No Office Software


i am going to be moving the 750gb drive to a secondary, i just dont know which ssd to get for the os/main programs. i have been looking and i am leaning towards the 120gb corsair force gt, but if there is better for cheaper or same price i am all ears. thanks for any info you can provide

p.s. i will be putting win7 or win8 on it as well as dual boot with ubuntu or possibly triple boot with ubuntu and fedora(need it for school)

[drka0tic]

The Crucial M4 is insanely popular right now and it's been on sale for quite a while:
http://slickdeals.net/f/4076190-Cruc...AwAAAAAFOz4yng

I personally know 5 people that own it and they cannot be happier. It is very reliable as opposed to OCZ. Check out the reviews on Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148442

[drka0tic]

Per Tom's Hardware, the Corsair is one tier lower than the M4 in performance:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...sd,3070-6.html

Reviews for the Corsair are good as well. Real word performance will be very similar amongst all the 120GB SSD drives. However, I feel the Crucial is more reliable. I used to own their previous generation (SATA II) drive, the C300, and I never had issues with it.

[Twiggz]

+1 for the M4

[freeagent]

If you have the cash, pcie ssd's are pretty quick.

[DungeonLord]

Originally Posted by freeagent

If you have the cash, pcie ssd's are pretty quick.

well considering the FIRST SENTENCE reads "well i've ordered a force 1761 laptop from xoticpc" i dont think the pcie ssd would work in my case...

[Neuromancer]

LOL M4 is a great drive, I have not experienced any issues with OCZ drives, and with newer firmware I doubt you will either.

Agility 3 still gets my biggest thumbs up for priceerformance ratio, was very very impressed with it. The M4 is damn close and garbage collection on the M4 is so fast I could not get a reliable "dirty performance" test run on it. It costs a bit more but I do like the MArvell controller it uses.

The Agility 3 is $130 for a 120GB right now.

[Sentential]

I beat my computer to hell on a regular basis. Had an Agility 2 from OCZ, died the first night I had it; been using a pair of Intel 320s in raid 0 for about 4 months now; rock solid. My buy list in order is:

Intel
Samsung
Crucial (Micron)

... all others can go to hell. The only 3 good SSD mfgrs are the ones making the NAND itself (see above)

ITT +1 for the M4

[Randyman...]

Another Intel SSD fanatic over here! Own 7 of them now (3 for more than 3 years now), and haven't had a single issue with them.

I recently strayed with an Agility 3 60GB / Sandforce 6G (was less than $1/GB after rebates) for experimentation with the Z68's SSD Caching - so far so good - but I'll likely stick with Intel for future purchases...

[freeagent]

Originally Posted by DungeonLord

well considering the FIRST SENTENCE reads "well i've ordered a force 1761 laptop from xoticpc" i dont think the pcie ssd would work in my case...

Sorry, I am 9 feet away from my tv wich is too small to read the small text you chose

[notJUSTguitar]

I have an OCZ Vertex 2, and have 2 friends with Vertex 3s.....Had them for over 6 months and no problems.
So...I always recommend OCZ to people.

[DungeonLord]

well i still dont have my ssd, yet, as i was waiting on sales or for my laptop to be built (hate not doing it myself). but after reading what you guy said i looked into why the m4 was overall the most recommended and i have determined that it was due to the marvell controler instead of the sandforce. this has lead me to a new problem..... crucial m4 or corsair performance pro? on paper the corsair is faster in nearly every test ran and i love corsair cs. i have plenty of m4 reviews to read but not that many performance pro reviews, have any of you guys used the performance pro drive or know people that have?

[ChinStrap]

Not personally, but I know it's pretty fast.

Plextor M3P has pretty good numbers too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820249020

If I was in the market for a new drive right now, in 128g size, I would get the Plextor. you can't really go wrong with any of the Marvell based drives. I said this in a different thread, but my 520 is filling up a little faster then planned, i'm loooking at 256g models & it will be Marvell based.

[SeeThruHead]

I'm waiting for the intel 330 series myself.

[DungeonLord]

well i got a 48 hour sale e-mail from newegg that had crucial m4 128gb drives for i think 130 each well by the time i checked my e-mail they were already sold out so i went ahead and bought a corsair performance pro series 128gb.

my reason for posting this is how do i test the drive? i dont have any computers that have sata3 ports other than my laptop and if i install win7 on it i can do read tests but not write tests to measure its performance so what are some benchmarks i can do to the ssd once i get windows7 installed?

[Cigarsmoker]

ATTO is the benchmark used by most manufacturer. For SATA II connection you should be hitting speed around the 280ish. On SATA III, it'll hit the 530ish range.