Time for an SSD?
So I've been looking at those shiny solid state drives the cool kids have been playing with and it seems the time may have come for me to join them. I've got a few quid for the birthday which along with what I have already earmarked for tech toys would be enough for a decent ~120GB unit.
Currently looking at the Crucial M4, Crucial Force 3, OCZ Octane and Vertex 3 and can find little beyond price to distinguish them, any views on the above would be greatly appreciated.
Currently looking at the Crucial M4, Crucial Force 3, OCZ Octane and Vertex 3 and can find little beyond price to distinguish them, any views on the above would be greatly appreciated.
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Octane is our new Indilinx based drive and while slower in the 4K read/write realm, the access time is about 3 to 5 times lower than the SandForce based offerings which make it feel really snappy in Windows.
Octane also doesn't take a speed hit with incompressible data (like AVI, MP3, etc).
That said the octane/M4 are similarly priced and the force 3's performance isn't that great so it's looking like a Vertex3 for me.
Thanks guys.
Just one real suggestion: get a nice quality adapter for your case if you don't have native physical support for 2.5" drives from your case manufacturer.
I've seen more than a couple oblique references to OCZ unreliability but so far sources for that seem to be anecdotal or out of date.
What exactly do you mean by a nice quality adaptor? Wasn't planning on getting anything too fancy as I didn't see any real need to decouple/heatsink it.
Both my SSD's came with them, OCZ and Samsung
2xVertex 2 120GB
Vertex 3 240GB
RevoDrive X2 100GB
RevoDrive 3 240GB (currently under review)
Samsung 830-series 64GB
All have performed very well. I highly recommend the OCZ drives. Their performance, support, and tools are excellent.
Seriously though, you'll load maps like noone's business in everything you play. You get first pick of vehicles.
When doing things like general internet surfing, going from site to site, watching youtube videos, etc - is that something that will make use of the increased 4k IOPS speeds a lot?
Was just over a tenner less than the cheapest Vertex 3 and that was reason enough for me to grab one.