Which SSD to get

kilobitsperyear said:
I read something about the Intel SSD's being the ones prone to the following;



Must find the original article...
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Well Anandtech did extensive testing and according to them it is exactly the opposite. Intel drives do not degrade as much as everyone else.
 
killadoob said:
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.
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Dude, like I said. 70GB/sec is fast enough. 209GB/sec beats your drive for read. Random read and write is faster on Intel too. Why didn't Intel make their drive 200GB write? Well maybe they prefer stability over BS stats.
Buy what you will, I can afford Intel and that's what I'm getting - if I was to buy - I'll wait till price drops by another 33% first though. No point in wasting cash.

What upsets me, are LIARS. You were lying back there.
 
Dude anandtech was paid off.

Pete you have not offered one review showing intel being better, what are you basing your opinion on dude? I will wait for your response cause this is gonna be classic :D. Not everyone can afford a 10k 60gb drive though, infact that would be stupid money.
 
Mypro-D said:
This is what I plan to do. OS drive with appz and like 4 games thats it!
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I suggest then looking at 60->80GB SSDs. As you can see from this thread, opinions vary. See what is available in SA, then lookup reviews and user experiences. If you want my opinion, if you want pure performance then I suggest either an OCZ Vertex 60GB or the Intel X25-M G2 PeterCH recommended at 80GB. The smaller drives will be less cost effective, unfortunately, but if you don't need the extra space, then it's a waste of money to get the bigger drives. If you want price/performance, then I'd suggest the 60GB version of the Team Group Xtreem-G1, but that's based on the assumption that it will perform similarly to the 120GB.
 
My advice for Mypro-D dude is to wait another year. Those SSDs will be much larger and cheaper in that time. They're still expensive. Don't buy killadoob's hype. I have a 64GB Toshiba (came with netbook) and a 160GB Intel G2 and they're both nice but they're not worth the cash. You buy a 60/80GB now for R3K and next year the 160/128GB at faster speed will be that much. You'll feel bad then.
 
Haha.

Dude, i bought My PC in Jan last year.
Look at what I have... Do you know how bad I feel now?
But still, i spend alot of time behind this bloody thing haha
 
Mypro-D said:
Haha.

Dude, i bought My PC in Jan last year.
Look at what I have... Do you know how bad I feel now?
But still, i spend alot of time behind this bloody thing haha
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SSDs are pretty cutting edge - so you're still paying early adopter premium. Wait at least till Intel brings out 320GB and then see what the competition does.
 
I do believe it, i am not one of those silly buggers who buy expensive stuff like an intel ssd for 7k when they can get a ssd for 3-4k :D. Must be so miff spenidng 7k on a hdd when a much cheaper one can do the job just as well but i guess when you got tons of cash to waste why not :D.

Now maybe i am wrong but for gaming you do need top of line, you do not need to drop 10k on a 60gb hdd, even if i was multimillionaire i would not drop 10k on a 60gb hdd :D.

Mypro check this article dude.

Hits the nail on the head.

http://www.pureoverclock.com/article772.html
http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=772&page=12

It is up to you but to me that kingston for the price is a winner, not everyone can blow 10k on a 60gb intel drive nor would some even think about it.

However, a VR's access time is about 5-10ms. A regular hard drive is like 10-15ms. A decent SSD is 0.1ms. Whereas a VR might be twice as fast as a regular hard drive, the SSD is 50-100x faster than the VR. . The physical moving parts simply have an inherent latency that the flash chips on an SSD don't.

Access time or seek time is blazing on any ssd drive. that is why they kick a mechanical's ass :D.
 
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I shall read :)

Look, to be totally honest I do have the money.
Its just that logically, why spend 5k on a drive if I could have spend R 2500 and it would have worked just as well.

Thats my argument. I always have to have the latest and greatest stuff and I need to stop with that and stop buying the 1st thing that i see.
 
Mypro do not listen to peter about not having money dude, he just uses that to justify blowing 7k on his ssd drive.

Sometimes buying expensive pc stuff is not worth it, like i7 for instance would you drop 10k on the 965? F no because it is not worth it. Same thing here. All SSD drives have low seek times 50-100x faster than normal drives and this is where they shine. Everything loads so much faster. So blowing 7-10k on a ssd for gaming is idiotic. You just need an entry level ssd.

when i brought my ssd in there was not an ssd anywhere under 8k i brought it in for 3.5k which for me was acceptable. Intel's at that stage cost like 700 dollars on newegg while the g.skill was 299 dollars :D.
 
Then have a look at the Team Group Xtreem-G1 60GB, it's only R2k and looks pretty decent.
 
Like I said. I just want stuff to load faster.
Thats what im looking for.

Over waiting for drives to spin up etc...
 
Rudimental said:
Then have a look at the Team Group Xtreem-G1 60GB, it's only R2k and looks pretty decent.
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Trouble is 60gb is not all that great, i mean that kingston one is 700 bucks more for twice the size. You will run out of space soon on 60gb. I mean the latest games can take 12-20gb space.

Dude any ssd on the market will load stuff faster.
 
killadoob said:
Trouble is 60gb is not all that great, i mean that kingston one is 700 bucks more for twice the size. You will run out of space soon on 60gb. I mean the latest games can take 12-20gb space.

Dude any ssd on the market will load stuff faster.
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Please show me this 120GB SSD for R2.7k

He said:

Mypro-D said:
This is what I plan to do. OS drive with appz and like 4 games thats it!
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You don't need all your games on an SSD anyway, he said around 2.5K.
 
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