Thanks for the feedback. I just finished reading this absolutely fantastic article on SSDs over at Anandtech:
http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631 Must read for anyone either wanting to understand just how different SSDs are from spinning hard drives or looking to buy one. His conclusions are that while the Gen 2 Intel SSDs have the best performance (largely due to the properly implementation of TRIM) they are expensive. He has been using a cheaper Vertex in his personal machine for months and loves it. And everything else (especially the SSDs with Jmicron controllers or Samsung NAND chips) is crap. --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Greg Sevart <ad...@xfury.net> wrote: > The Vertex is a nice drive. We have 45 of them deployed at work, and > they're > very fast. I've become somewhat concerned with their reliability > though...I've had several of them either die or become quirky. I typically > am not one to judge drives based on such a tiny sample size, but SSDs are > supposed to be much more reliable than magnetic drives...and I haven't > experienced that. > > For what it's worth, I only buy Intel G2 SSDs now--including for my > personal > systems. They have faster sequential read performance, and much faster > random write performance, but lower sequential write performance (which > frankly doesn't much matter). Most real world tests put them ahead of the > Vertex. > > Greg > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:33 PM > > To: hwg > > Subject: [H] SSD recommendations? > > > > I'm about to pull the trigger on an SSD for my laptop and wanted to > > know > > what people thought so far. It's going in a Lenovo x200t that I really > > love. > > > > I'm thinking of going with the OCZ Vertex 120GB: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227395 > > > > But I am considering the 60GB version of the same drive. My only > > hesitation > > is that AFAIK I only have one internal drive bay so I would need to > > keep my > > entire Win 7 install to below 60 GB. That's fine as long as I give up > > carrying my music collection with me. > > > > --------------------------- > > Brian Weeden > > Technical Advisor > > Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> > > +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada > > +1 (202) 683-8534 US > > >
