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[Futureperfect]

Hey guys,


Well one of my Intel X-25M 80GB SSDs (2 setup in Raid 0) took a dive on me this weekend. Currently going to setup an RMA process for it but since I'm splitting my setup into two whole PCs in April w/ the release of Ivy Bridge I feel it might be the time to replace the RAID w/ a single drive setup.


Do you feel getting an SSD now is fine or is there some new SATA III SSD controller that's going to blow away the current technology that I should wait for?



If there wasn't I was thinking a Corsair Force GT 240GB SATA III SSD might suit me well.
http://www.corsair.c...hard-drive.html


Newegg has it for $374.99 atm but I have some gift cards to help knock it down a couple hundred.
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820233208



Do you all have any better suggestions? I'm looking to keep this under $400 if I can.

[RaptoR]

Vertex 3

[ExtremeGrandpa]

I agree with raptor on the brand and model.

SSD's are more important than many people would like to believe. You will see gamers overclocking CPU to reduce bottleneck, when in fact the slowest part of there system is usually the HDD..

[Derbixrace]

i would get this http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820147135

i just dont like sandforce drives...

[Righthooks]

Derbixrace, on 24 January 2012 - 03:03 PM, said:

i would get this http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820147135

i just dont like sandforce drives...

LOL @ the bundled software.
What do you have against the Vertex 3? I went from Vertex Turbo, to Vertex 2 EX, to Vertex 3. OCZ makes damn fine Solid State Drives. I have also never had a device failure, and I run an elevated form of RAID 0.

-Hooks

[Derbixrace]

Righthooks, on 25 January 2012 - 02:42 PM, said:

LOL @ the bundled software.
What do you have against the Vertex 3? I went from Vertex Turbo, to Vertex 2 EX, to Vertex 3. OCZ makes damn fine Solid State Drives. I have also never had a device failure, and I run an elevated form of RAID 0.

-Hooks

i hear they have higher failure rate than intel, crucial, samsung etc.. which doesnt use sandforce controllers. thats why i dont trust sandforce as much even if they are a few percent faster.

[dirtylarryuk]

Not one of my sandforces have failed thats 6 vertexs 2's 2x corsair forces and 1x revo drive and 4 of those vertexs run just the Os so they are under 'heavy' load.

From industry data its also very tied with SSD being slighty more reliable than HDD's these days (but not by much) and Sandforce vs Marvel etc being all the same.

As always check the manufacturer warrenty when buying and or add a 3rd party insurance for more pricey drives (ie revo) and use constant backup to ensure the least downtime possible as your SSD or HDD failing is generally just bad luck or spiked mains and you can avoid that by using a USP. I used to use 100's of SSDs at work and intel vs Corsair vs OCZ and a few other brands and in video and 3d production the SSD's owned the HDD for speed an reliability the load appears different to database use and the brands all failed around the same as in about 1 in 20 could have a issue after heavy use in 12-24 months.

Some brands offer 12 months warrenty some 3-5 years so hunt around as the units themselves offer very similar perfomance.

I'll not in this thread as I have in another I still recommend using a 60-120 GB SSD just for the OS then placing more expensive larger units in raid or not for App Game and Storage use, Your OS and browser-ramdisk-scratch disk cuase most of the wear and tear on a SSD so getting that damage on a Cheap drive can make your more expensive drives last far longer.

Like GPU's any money spent on a SSD should be treated as 'throw away' as something twice as big twice as fast is only ever 12-24 months away! I could now buy 120GB 500RW drives for price I paid for my vertex 2's (60GB 250 RW) and a almost 2GB a sec revo max iops 240b GB for same price as i paid for my 800 MB RW revo 240 GB!

So just buy something you will be happy with for 12-36 months.

Edited by dirtylarryuk, 26 January 2012 - 06:17 AM.