SSD for laptop

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kolaval said:
Yep not following you?
Does Seagate even have/sell SSD's in SA?
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I'm suspecting he just answered to increase his postcount.
The ADATA ssd's seem pretty solid and their rated speed will be perfectly fine for development. Personally I'd go for a Corsair jobbie but they're a good R350 more.
 
odd that the SATA 3 drives are cheaper than the SATA 2 drives, on rebeltech at least...
 
kolaval said:
odd that the SATA 3 drives are cheaper than the SATA 2 drives, on rebeltech at least...
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Not really odd. It's just newer current technology.

Ever tried to source old DDR RAM for a laptop, or an IDE HDD? You're gonna pay more than the current newer technology.
 
Corsair Sandforce 2 SSD's had some firmware issues. ADATA tends to stick to the stock Sandforce firmware, thus they are a bit more reliable.

We have 12 ADADA S511 120GB installed in our latest batch of laptops. They are awsome.

THE S511 uses higher speed type of memory to the S510 that provides better random write performance. The average user might not notice, but the price difference is low enough to just go for the better minimum performance provided by the synchronised memory

FYI. Seagate and WD dont know what they are doing when then they make SSDs. They dont even make SSD's, they buy Marvel, Sandforce and Idillix controllers like everyone else. The only people who manufacture their own SSD's are Samsung and Intel.
 
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I own an ADATA S511 120GB as well, really really happy with it. It is dam quick.

There was one firmware version that gave me a BSOD like once a day but within 2 weeks they had released a new one and it was smooth sailing. They are on the ball.
 
kolaval said:
FYI
I went for a 120GB OCZ Agility 3, simply because they are on special it seems @ sybaritic
http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/product_info.php?cPath=61_428&products_id=60582

From the reviews and comparisons with the OCZ Vertex 3(which is faster but you are unlikely to notice it in real life), it seems decent enough
http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-agility-3-review/15
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Praeses said:
Wow that's cheap for a brilliant drive!
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Damn good price. I paid R2.5k for this drive about 6 months ago!!!!

EDIT: Mine was the Vertex 3 not the Agility, apologies
 
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If you don't mind importing,

Samsung 830
Crucial M4

and then local

OCZ Vertex 3

In that order :)! Crucial provides international warranty btw even if they don't have local distributors. Order from their website! I do have one lying around, you can PM me!
 
kolaval said:
From the reviews and comparisons with the OCZ Vertex 3(which is faster but you are unlikely to notice it in real life)
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This is a good price, but drives at that size with asynchronous NAND are significantly slower in certain real world scenarios, e.g. 20% slower in Anandtech's Heavy Workload benchmark (i.e. heavy read/write workloads) , which is probably the least synthetic benchmark. Unfortunately it is very difficult to find useful real world testing for SSDs, since you'll see many just like the one you linked that only run synthetic benchmarks, along with Vantage, but then not list crucial things, such as drive fill percentage, which greatly affects its results.
 
Rudimental said:
This is a good price, but drives at that size with asynchronous NAND are significantly slower in certain real world scenarios, e.g. 20% slower in Anandtech's Heavy Workload benchmark (i.e. heavy read/write workloads) , which is probably the least synthetic benchmark. Unfortunately it is very difficult to find useful real world testing for SSDs, since you'll see many just like the one you linked that only run synthetic benchmarks, along with Vantage, but then not list crucial things, such as drive fill percentage, which greatly affects its results.
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How much slower do you recon?
Also to consider that I am putting a SATA 3 drive on a motherboard that only does SATA 2 (being a 2 year old laptop and all), so it will not run at 6GB/s in any case
 
I ran my S511 SATA3 drive on SATA2, still a MASSIVE improvement. Upgraded to SATA3 now and it's even nippier :)
 
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