Which SSD to get

PeterCH said:
I think you're a g.skill fanboi then. I'll recommend Intel, you recommend your Chinese makers.
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Point being... ?
 
LOL and the g.skill is made in Taiwan not china, So you keep your china make peter :D. What is wrong with china's goods though? Majority of all computer equipment is made there. Even macs are made in china :D.

thank you kilo dude haha, classic peterism :D.
 
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killadoob said:
LOL and the g.skill is made in Taiwan not china, So you keep your chine make peter :D. What is wrong with china's good though. Majority of all computer equipment is made there.
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Taiwan is not China?

Taiwan ROC is the full name of the country.
 
This is what I want.
I just want Windows to load faster and to open my games/programs ( Mails, Firefox etc ) Faster.
I have 8 tb of Hdd space at the moment and all the copying etc will be done on these..
I do not use Photoshop, I do not do any rendering or editing what so ever.

So what should I get?
Do I really need a top of the range thing?
 
killadoob said:
LOL and the g.skill is made in Taiwan not china, So you keep your china make peter :D. What is wrong with china's goods though? Majority of all computer equipment is made there. Even macs are made in china :D.

thank you kilo dude haha, classic peterism :D.
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*sigh*

Where it's developed, "China". Intel has been making semi-conductors since when? 70s? g.skill has been around since? Right.
 
It's funny how you say taiwan is behind on r&d yet for a time tsmc had a smaller process producing graphics cards than AMD or intel.
 
Mypro-D said:
This is what I want.
I just want Windows to load faster and to open my games/programs ( Mails, Firefox etc ) Faster.
I have 8 tb of Hdd space at the moment and all the copying etc will be done on these..
I do not use Photoshop, I do not do any rendering or editing what so ever.

So what should I get?
Do I really need a top of the range thing?
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So you need fast random access, and good read times. Write at 70GB/sec is good enough for you, heck you could do PS or video editing on that. In fact that's faster than SCSI/SAS speed.

If I were you, I'd go with Intel. Look the other drives are pretty decent nowadays, but you never know what surprise may lurk there. Patriot/g.skill/etc are tiny companies which could go bust. Intel has a reputation and decades of experience.

Wait a big longer for prices to fall more. SSD are still expensive.
 
Mypro-D said:
This is what I want.
I just want Windows to load faster and to open my games/programs ( Mails, Firefox etc ) Faster.
I have 8 tb of Hdd space at the moment and all the copying etc will be done on these..
I do not use Photoshop, I do not do any rendering or editing what so ever.

So what should I get?
Do I really need a top of the range thing?
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No. Just get that kingston v series you linked to earlier. It's exactly what you're looking for.
 
So the 125 series should be good enough for me? NO need to jump to the 325 or 225.
They are close to 4k where this one is R 2600-00. Seems fair to me :/
 
Mypro-D said:
This is what I want.
I just want Windows to load faster and to open my games/programs ( Mails, Firefox etc ) Faster.
I have 8 tb of Hdd space at the moment and all the copying etc will be done on these..
I do not use Photoshop, I do not do any rendering or editing what so ever.

So what should I get?
Do I really need a top of the range thing?
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Nope that is what me and quik are saying dude, for what you need that drive is perfect. the main reason ssd's are fast is not the R/W that is just a bonus. SSD's are fast because their seek time is very low. That drive will slap your mechanical drive silly. also 120/8gb is also ideal, the 80gb intel's i find are a bit small for gaming rigs.

2.6k is perfect dude. According to peter you actually need a 10k 60gb drive :D. Not lekka. 2.6k for a 128gb ssd is great.
 
Tweaktown just did a review of the Team Group Xtreem-G1 120GB and it looks pretty decent. Pretty cheap too.

R3,831.00 at Sybaritic - R31.93/GB

What you really want, though, is to figure out how much data you'll need on your SSD and buy the best price/performance at the size that suits you. There is no point in buying a big ( >100GB) SSD and then putting media and other crap on it or leaving a lot of space empty, unless you have stupid amounts of money lying around. You'll probably be better off with a smaller SSD running your OS and apps (games if you really want to) and using a HDD for the rest.
 
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Rudimental said:
Tweaktown just did a review of the Team Group Xtreem-G1 120GB and it looks pretty decent. Pretty cheap too.

R3,831.00 at Sybaritic - R31.93/GB

What you really want, though, is to figure out how much data you'll need on your SSD and buy the best price/performance at the size that suits you. There is no point in buying a big SSD and then putting media and other crap on it, unless you have stupid amounts of money lying around. You'll probably be better off with a smaller SSD running your OS and apps (games if you really want to) and using a HDD for the rest.
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This is what I plan to do. OS drive with appz and like 4 games thats it!
 
Qwikslver said:
It's funny how you say taiwan is behind on r&d yet for a time tsmc had a smaller process producing graphics cards than AMD or intel.
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Taiwan is behind on R&D. The highest quality tech comes from US, Europe and Japan, then Korea, then Taiwan then others. There are exceptions here and there but the one with more engineers from good schools (MIT, Caltech, Tokyo U, etc) are the ones who do better.

Better miniaturisation does not mean better tech. The first gen of SSD was pure junk, from everyone, excluding Intel. That says something.
 
[video=youtube;rjCmLJtITK4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjCmLJtITK4[/video]

This is a drive peter is calling rubbish :D
 
killadoob said:
Nope that is what me and quik are saying dude, for what you need that drive is perfect. the main reason ssd's are fast is not the R/W that is just a bonus. SSD's are fast because their seek time is very low. That drive will slap your mechanical drive silly. also 120/8gb is also ideal, the 80gb intel's i find are a bit small for gaming rigs.

2.6k is perfect dude. According to peter you actually need a 10k 60gb drive :D. Not lekka. 2.6k for a 128gb ssd is great.
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LOL, liar. I never said he needed E series. You said he needed 230GB/sec write speeds. Now you contradict yourself saying that seek times are king. I'm on record saying that 70GB/sec write will be too much already and unless you spend your day copying files from SSDs or RAID0s - you don't need >70GB/sec. You do need random READ and random WRITE. Intel beats all in Random Read and Random Write - what you could call "SEEK".

This is very childish. Go away you ad hominem using troll.
 
I read something about the Intel SSD's being the ones prone to the following;

It's come to our attention following investigation by ARS Technica that following prolonged heavy use the Intel X25-M's read and write speeds can both become notably degraded. Having confirmed this issue on numerous X25-Ms of our own we would warn any potential buyer of this problem and advise extreme caution. This issue has not effected either the Patriot Warp or G.Skill drive though, nor has it been displayed by any other SSD we have since changed.
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Must find the original article...
 
PeterCH said:
LOL, liar. I never said he needed E series. You said he needed 230GB/sec write speeds. Now you contradict yourself saying that seek times are king. I'm on record saying that 70GB/sec write will be too much already and unless you spend your day copying files from SSDs or RAID0s - you don't need >70GB/sec. You do need random READ and random WRITE. Intel beats all in Random Read and Random Write - what you could call "SEEK".

This is very childish. Go away you ad hominem using troll.
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Actually i said for the price intel have lower read/write than other drives so they are not better. you seem be getting rather upset pete? i know it is hard being wrong so much but you should handle it a bit better :D

Ya kilo intel's ssd's are not as great as peter says, you can tell by how upset the oke gets. Plus those drives have low read/write speed compared to g.skill patriot as well.

I mean look at this dude :eek: http://www.dailytech.com/Intel+X25M...uption+Problems+in+Windows+7/article16638.htm

That would make me steer well clear of intel.
 
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