SSD Drives (120GB) Which One. Why? Newegg?

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Hi,

Can't help myself really. Built a new rig last month and now those SSD's are screaming blue murder at me.

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I want a 120gb SSD (pref Sata III) that i can use as OS and mostly used programs drive. I don't really know how to setup RAID, so dont worry about this, I also want TRIM to work.

Couple of questions below:

1. Looked long at hard at the Mushkin Callisto Deluxe..looks great, around R2600 - R2800 locally. It's SATA II, so not really ideal, but looks a great drive...thoughts?
2. The Crucial RealSSD C300 looks intensely awesome. Sata III, and the price on newegg is brilliant ($269. R4100 at Zaps. I smell ripoff? R3600 at Landmark. This still seems a HELLUVA lot more expensive than Newegg.
3. Ebay has this item for around $230 - $260. What kind of tax / lev / Vat will I have to pay to get it to me?
4. Am I missing any other epic SATA III SSD drives (128gb)
5. Obviously want the best R/W i can find, the OCZ stuff looks a lot slower than most, and the Kingston is good value, but pretty slow and no SATA III.

Recommendations pls Geniuses...

EDIT: Meh, Newegg doesnt deliver outside the US. Ignore the Newegg question unfortunately.
 
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There are very few SSDs that will actually use the full bandwidth from a SATA3 interface. Dont get too hung up on it. And obviously if you compare prices to the states our stuff will look stupidly expensive, its a fact of life :( look at the G.Skill drives (I know wootware sells them), many good things have been said about them and they are priced decently as well.
 
Archer said:
There are very few SSDs that will actually use the full bandwidth from a SATA3 interface. Dont get too hung up on it. And obviously if you compare prices to the states our stuff will look stupidly expensive, its a fact of life :( look at the G.Skill drives (I know wootware sells them), many good things have been said about them and they are priced decently as well.
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As Archer mentioned, don't break your head about SATA III, most of the nice drives are all still SATAII. The Corsair range is also value for money, have a look at the Force 120gb. :)
 
Thanks, I understand SATA III is no biggie, but to be fair, i did spend extra to get a Mobo with SATA 3, seems silly not to use it.

Pada - that G.skill is hectically cheap. wow.

Does anyone know waht the customs fee's are for ordering off Ebay? Found a decent seller who ships internationally, but what is the most one can be in for at customs ?

Kayvee - holy shizzleballs. Has anyone tried MyUS? That's an attractive idea.
 
Pada said:
The cheapest & high speed 120GB SSD that I know of is the G.Skill Phoenix Pro 120GB SSD for R 2,353.00
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Yeah this. And if you want to spend a bit more you can go for the Muskin deluxe, I have one in my Notebook and it's supposed to be faster than the G.Skill. Truth be told, I have no idea if it's really faster and I wouldn't worry about it too much. All current gen. SSD's are fast, you won't be sorry.


P.S. I got this off a forum elsewhere, it's pretty much all you need to know:

Originally Posted by AMv8(1day)
The Vertex 2 runs "special" exclusive Firmware developed by Sandforce specifically for OCZ. Other than the Firmware, there is almost no difference between the following drives.
OCZ Vertex 2
OCZ Agility 2
Mushkin Enhanced Callisto
Mushkin Enhanced Callisto Deluxe
Gskill Phoenix series
Gskill Phoenix Pro series
Corsair Force series

I believe Super Talent and one or two other companies are also developing their own versions but the above all currently have 60 GB and up models in production all with fairly similar performance. I currently have a pair of Vertex 2 60GB models sitting on my coffee table waiting to go into something.
From the list above, the following drives have one major difference: an IOPS spec of up to, or greater than 50,000:
OCZ Vertex 2
Mushkin Callisto Deluxe
G.SKILL Phoenix Pro
Corsair Force

The others just have the 10,000 to 30,000 spec. I know it's not a majorly huge difference, but it is said that the 50,000 IOPS spec is quite beneficial for enterprise installations. Plus, Mushkin is providing a service where they're taking their customers' original Callistos and converting them into Callisto Deluxe SSDs. Some of these people are posting about this on Mushkin's SSD message board and are enthusiastic about the improvement in the performance!

So this tells me that the spec of 50,000 IOPS makes enough of a difference that it's worth putting effort into making sure that the SandForce drive you purchase meets this specification.
 
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luxe said:
Thanks, I understand SATA III is no biggie, but to be fair, i did spend extra to get a Mobo with SATA 3, seems silly not to use it.

Pada - that G.skill is hectically cheap. wow.

Does anyone know waht the customs fee's are for ordering off Ebay? Found a decent seller who ships internationally, but what is the most one can be in for at customs ?

Kayvee - holy shizzleballs. Has anyone tried MyUS? That's an attractive idea.
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Save yourself the hassle. Wootwares price is very competitive. At most you'll be saving R500 by importing it, more likely closer to R250.
 
I haven't tried it myself so can't comment firsthand, but have heard of many doing it this way. If you have family or friends over there you could enlist their help too.
 
Archer said:
Save yourself the hassle. Wootwares price is very competitive. At most you'll be saving R500 by importing it, more likely closer to R250.
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Archer - pretty sure you know i trust you by now , with all the hardware advice on here :)

That being said something is nagging me that I am not going to buy a SATA III device when i have 2 ports open on the mobo. That also being said, the price difference is close to R2k, and i might as well buy 2 drives then....

Damnit...
 
What about the Intel SSD 128 Gb drives. Are they not as fast or not affordable?
 
Dude that w00tware pricing is crazy.

Buy that thing ASAP, if you are really keen on performance buy to of them and run raid 0 :eek:

You can use MYUS.com to buy from newegg and then send it here but bare in mind it will cost an extra 10% plus about 400 bucks postage. So when you look at w00tware's pricing and you look at that pricing with postage, myus comm and then customs of about 14% it may work out more expensive.

Intel is expensive and the R/W is slower. Intel are out the game in terms of ssd, the only people still buying intel ssd's are the chops who think they are still the best :D
 
luxe said:
Archer - pretty sure you know i trust you by now , with all the hardware advice on here :)

That being said something is nagging me that I am not going to buy a SATA III device when i have 2 ports open on the mobo. That also being said, the price difference is close to R2k, and i might as well buy 2 drives then....

Damnit...
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Well what do you use your machine for 90% of the time? From there we can easily tell you if you really need SATA3 or if you are only after bragging rights :p
 
Archer said:
Well what do you use your machine for 90% of the time? From there we can easily tell you if you really need SATA3 or if you are only after bragging rights :p
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heh. Gaming and Music Production (DAW)
 
Hmmmm... save yourself some cash and go the SATA2 route then. You really wont see a difference while running those programs.
 
kayvee said:
I can vouch for Wootware's service, it's great!
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Yep, been in contact with Rory already about the SSD at wootware, great response time and willing to assist.

I think they'll get my money.
 
+1 on the SATA 3 comments... dont really think it warrants the extra money.

I know your mobo has SATA 3, and honestly if it was a normal hdd, I would understand.... but with SSD the speed is so insanely fast already...

imho of course

:D
 
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