Storage Which SSD to go for?

Hi Guys

Just wanting your thoughts, as I trust you to give honest advice. I'm going to buy a SSD on Monday, and i'm torn between the OCZ vertex (120GB) and the Intel X25-M (160GB). The OCZ is £338 and the Intel is £351, but the Buyers guide always suggests the OCZ one. Any reason why? Or is it just the Intel one is usually alot more? (I found it on offer )

Cheers

 

Have a look at this review for some numbers. The Intel seems to suffer from poor sequential write speeds compared to the other drives, although it does kick ass in quite a few of the other benchmarks.

Personally I'm not sure which one I'd go for - the extra 32GB over the OCZ and being slightly cheaper would be a big rumbler...

 

Hmmm I see what you mean. Will the sequential write speeds make much of a difference? As i want it for its size really, 128GB is a little small. Also, do you think the Intel drive will be the Gen.2 version by now?

 

Intel has superior random write and read performance which is a better indicator of real world performance. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/160G...h-25-SATA-3Gb-s-Read-250MB-s-Write-70MB-s-OEM is a G2. Please remember that with Intels new firmware, the sequential write speeds are boosted to 100MB/s too.

 

http://www.dabs.com/products/intel-160gb-x25-m-sataii-2-5--mlc-69FX.html This is the one i'm looking at. Good ole Dabs I'm going to go for it. Then have fun flashing the firmware, YAY (*sigh*). How hard is it to do this?

Edit:

Why is this http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/160G...h-25-1-x-SATA-3Gb-s-Read-250MB-s-Write-70MB-s massively more expensive?

 

seems as though the g.skill falcon2 isnt much slower than the OCZ or intel drives, but is much cheaper:
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/43955/G-Skill-128GB-SSD-Hard-Drive-Falcon-II-2-5--SATA

 

Ignore that Scan link, its for an older G1 drive. Flashing the firmware was easy, I used a memory stick and it takes all of 4 minutes. Other drives require you to do hard erases and can take hours, whereas Intel's was as simple as flashing a mobo bios.

 

I got the 80gb X25-M drive. Can't complain.

 

the intel is faster but the ocz has more storage

 

get a crucial,

i have a m225, and its blisteringly quick, and the latest ones really rock

 

ah but does it have native trim support.

 

Thanks for all the quick replies The reason i want that Intel drive is for the size, 160GB is only just a usable size to my mind. and seeing as its only £15 more than the OCZ one its worth it i feel.

Just to check, is the drive on DABs the Gen.2? How do i check?

Cheers

 

The dabs one is G2. Heres how you check:

SSDSA2MH160G2R5

is the serial code for that drive. See the G2 bit, right before the end? That signifies that its 2nd generation.

 

i got the ocz vertex turbo 120 and its amazingly fast i done months of research before getting one i chose the ocz because of the amount of support there is for it from ocz with regards to trim/firmware/anything rele

ocz vertex turbo 120 with fw 1.5 in win 7 is awesome the performance actually increased for me after a week its spec read speed is 270 i got 275 only 5 more but its nice..r=write nice n steady still at 205

 

Think the Intel X25-M G2 is still the best price/performance SSD available...have 2 x 80GBs...
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I'm still learning about SSD's so sorry if I've missed your point but the Crucial does have TRIM support for windows 7 with a firmware upgrade. Was your point that it doesn't have it out of the box? If so, I think that's a pretty minor problem as upgrading the firmware isn't that difficult.

 

Ah, I wasn't aware that a firmware had been released for the crucial drives. Oh well.

 

Thanks for the help guys. I'll be grabbing one as soon as my money clears...

 

I got the Intel X25-M G2 160gb for less than £300 on Ebay if you are prepared to go down that route.

 

Jesus NO! I loath Ebay and boycot it where ever I can, as I think for a multinational, multimillion pound company it should do more to police it's site. So thank you, but no