SSDs get bigger!
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/kingston-ssd-now-trim-windows,9510.html
On 1/27/2010 7:56 AM, Brian Weeden wrote:
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.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation<http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
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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.
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Secure World Foundation<http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
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