Storage Corsair F60 or Crucial 64Gb C300?

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  1. GeorgeK

    GeorgeK Swinging the banhammer Super Moderator

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    Hi all

    Just a quick one really - I don't have 6Gb/s SATA on my motherboard and want a SSD primarily as a boot drive & for as many games as will fit on it.

    On scan the two SSDs mentioned above are practically the same price and my question is which should I go for?

    The corsair has much higher write speeds but sacrifices some read speed (the crucial's read speed is 355MB/s but as I understand it on SATA II you'll only get about 300MB/s)

    However, in this review clicky the C300 seems to beat the F series in almost all tests (other than write speed obviously) with the latencies in the random tests being significantly lower...

    Any suggestions?

    Many thanks

    GK
     
  2. rollo

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    Niether c400 is a few weeks away wait and you will likely get double the storage for same cost

    Prices I've seen quoted around

    64gb $100
    128gb $220
    256gb $450

    We won't get direct conversion but even so it's not far away
     
  3. GeorgeK

    GeorgeK Swinging the banhammer Super Moderator

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    Actually after a bit of research I've now added the 60GB OCZ Vertex 2E to my list as well.... Although as far as I can see it is practically identical to the F60...

    Anyone with any suggestions?
     
  4. GeorgeK

    GeorgeK Swinging the banhammer Super Moderator

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    ah - just seen the reply rollo, thanks - I'll keep a look out...
     
  5. gilljoy

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    Best bet is to hold off, I'm looking at picking up the F90 or 64 gb c300 but It'd be a waste of money to buy a C300 right now with the c400 just around the corner.

    Even if the prices are too high the higher capcity c300 are likely to drop in price
     

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