Ok SSD time for me

tw33k said:

I have a Crucial C300 (128GB) and can tell you performance is incredible. It's SATA III tho so you need the ports on your board or a card to get full speed. Check out my latest benchmark: https://www.sevenforums.com/881980-post642.html

Cheers tw33k , I did a seach for your SSD and its about the same price as the OCZ vertex 2 for the 64gb version.

The question is , which is better? The 60gb OCZ or the 64gb Crucial.

Dam lol.

Interesting , many thanks for the link.

One thing I have noticed is the read and write speeds between the 2 ,

The OCZ is 285 read/ 275 write

The crucial is 355 read/ only 70 write

How does this translate , I am guessing the read speed is by far the most important factor and based on this then the crucial is far superior , however I am surprised at how low the write speed is in comparison to the OCZ.


Cheers

paulpicks21 said:

I assume it wasn't easy due to the fact you had a pair?

1 should be straight forward.

It took a while to get them working in RAID 0 without needing 20 seconds to POST, but even a single SSD is a great improvement over a mechanical drive.

Go with the OCZ, the slower write times on the crucial mean it will take longer to install programs and save files

madtownidiot said:

paulpicks21 said:

I assume it wasn't easy due to the fact you had a pair?

1 should be straight forward.

It took a while to get them working in RAID 0 without needing 20 seconds to POST, but even a single SSD is a great improvement over a mechanical drive.

Go with the OCZ, the slower write times on the crucial mean it will take longer to install programs and save files

Yeah , cheers bud

Like I say , I did a fair bit of research and the ocz vertex 2 kept coming up with great reviews.

Plus I can order it tomorrow and get a saturday delivery from ebuyer so happy days.

So unless I blow my pc up I will be coming to ya live on saturday night from my new SSD with my thoughts on my new purchase

Hang on tw33k , I will just check it all and get back to ya.

I will be honest , I don't really have a clue regarding all these read/write speeds at different levels , I have only just scratched the surface of SSD's

All I have gone on is the info on the websites I have visited for the 2 drives , here's the links -

Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Aria Technology

OCZ 60GB Vertex 2E SSD 2.5" SATA-II Read 285MB/s.. | Ebuyer.com