OCZ Vertex SSD, best prices?

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Hi everyone

Looking fo a good deal on a 60gig Vertex, anything around 5k, for Win 7 boot disk?
Looked at Prophcey, and they only have the 32...anyone give me any pointers to other online etailers?

Thanks in advance :)
 
I have one on backorder with www.rebeltech.co.za

R3200 (confirmed with their supplier) give or take a few rands for the 60 gig model.

ETA for local stock is next week.

Speak to Patrick.
 
Didn't I post a link from wantitall.co.za for a 60GB OCZ Vertex for R2800 yesterday or something ?
 
You know that wantitall don't keep stock hey keeper? They import everything item by item so maybe the oke is looking to buy one now and in 3-6 weeks.
 
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hmm...i'm torn between the 60GB vertex series and the 120GB Solid series....

I guess that even if it's half the size, if it's faster it's the one to get. that's the reason to buy an SSD, for the speed, not the size.

60GB Is plenty
 
Keeper said:
hmm...i'm torn between the 60GB vertex series and the 120GB Solid series....

I guess that even if it's half the size, if it's faster it's the one to get. that's the reason to buy an SSD, for the speed, not the size.

60GB Is plenty
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I presume they're not affordable then when using capacity as the metric?
Only speed, then? :)

Man I need that Coolaid. :)
 
60GB Vertex Series: R2800
Read: Up to 230 MB/s
Write: Up to 135MB/s
Seek Time: <.1ms

120GB Vertex Series: R3100
Read: up to 155 MB/sec**
Write: up to 90 MB/sec**
Seek: <.2-.3ms

is there a 32GB for me that's even faster in the R3000 price range? I'd get a 32GB if it's faster, even that is plenty!
 
Keeper it depends man, do your programs need more than 90 meg a sec?

If not you should get the extra space i reckon because games, apps etc can easily get to 60gb.

The speed is the main factor personally i for my work i would rather have the 60gb read and write over the 120gb in fact as soon as i got some spare cash i want to replace my samsung ssd cause the write is only like 70mb want something faster :).

32gb is not plenty and no you won't get much faster than that unless you go for the g.skill falcon, 32gb is windows and a couple games, bam over and done.
 
PeterCH said:
I presume they're not affordable then when using capacity as the metric?
Only speed, then? :)

Man I need that Coolaid. :)
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SSD is not for backup Peter, you use it on your OS, Virtual Memory, Top-Priority Software, and *most* requiring games.

even 32GB is enough for that IMO.
 
Thing is peter has no understanding of an ssd, he does not understand what it's use is and why people want it so badly. SSD's will drop in price if you can wait a year or 2 but honestly who can wait for a faster much faster pc?
 
My games run fine on normal HDD's, I need it for expensive software that can only use 2GB RAM (32Bit OS limitations, think its 4GB on 64-bit which I now have), and then starts caching to HDD - That is the problem. the app is only 100mb, lol....

32GB is fine for me, I promise - OS = 10GB, 22GB for software. even maya and 3ds max comes in at around 1GB each.

I'm working with like 6 million polygons in realtime and I wanna bump that up to about 20 million or so soon, with the help of 8GB Ram and SDD.

so, are there any 32GB's that are about R3000, that have faster speeds than the vertex series? please post me a link.


....if it's not that much faster, i'll go 60GB though, heh...
 
killadoob said:
Thing is peter has no understanding of an ssd, he does not understand what it's use is and why people want it so badly. SSD's will drop in price if you can wait a year or 2 but honestly who can wait for a faster much faster pc?
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So what do I not understand? Don't you think that you're being a bit patronising there? - after all I've been alive a lot longer than you have and have been building and upgrading PCs long before you.

SSDs are early technology and are very expensive. So yes, I haven't drunk the Kool-Aid but that point is true. The increase in speed will help with loading stuff off disk but will not make your CPU and memory faster and often the bottleneck is there.

And for goodness sakes, no one is stopping you from buying these SSDs.
 
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HDD is a big bottleneck my friend, it's the only moving part in your entire PC! (Minus fans of course, and CD Rom doesn't affect performance either)

CPU (i7 Quad Core) and RAM (already up to DDR3 now) are being improved every month almost - The average HDD's may have sata but they are still at 7200 rpm - only improvement is capacity
 
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Nope you have it wrong peter, for someone who has been working on pc's for so long you think that i the bottleneck is the cpu and memory?

The main bottleneck on a pc is your hdd.

You can have the best i7 system around but your running a 7200rpm drive is the bottleneck in your system.

Go do a calculation and figure out how many times faster an ssd is than a 7200rpm drive, this is what you need to work with:

0.1ms response for the ssd's
10-16ms for 7200rpm

An ssd would in fact would make a slower p4 system much faster, when you open an app your pc is waiting for the hdd to respond, the cpu and memory are waiting for the hard drive.
I have it before ssd's with raptors that people only look at cpu's and memory to make a pc go faster and never think that the hdd is something they look into.

Peter i beg you to go and watch on youtube how fast ssd's open programs compared to their 7200rpm counterparts.
 
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killadoob said:
An ssd would in fact make a slower p4 system much faster, when you open an app your pc is waiting for the hdd to respond, the cpu and memory are waiting for the hard drive.
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Yeah - opening and closing apps. Except you don't do that all the time - only once on average. Read stuff from HDD - into RAM and CPU, where the eg video is processed. I don't know what system you're using but on my quad core Xeon the CPU is the bottleneck when rendering effects. Oh sure PhotoShop would open faster.... no doubt, file loads faster, given - that SSD won't give me more cores or boost the connection between CPUs and RAM.

So for R2000 you can do a RAID-0 x2 7200 RPM 32MB Cache 1TB HDDs,
sequential read of that would saturate an i7

And yeah I need that amount of space for files.
 
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