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@ Dave76
Given the fact that both the Crucial and OCZ SSD's cost 40-70% over the Kingston V100 it's really a no brainer for my decision. Others compared a 7200.12 to a WD Black and say it's a lot better and that's with just a 3ms reduction. Comparing my old 74GB Raptor to a VelociRaptor which both has a 7ms access time, the difference is only the SATA connection speed SATA-150 vs SATA-300 and read/writes times 70mb/s vs 105mb/s but benchmarks and real world performance shows the VelociRaptor pulls ahead a lot.
Considering the difference of only .2ms which is not even a 1ms with higher write speed over Crucial 40mb/s and a $40 reduction on the price tag. It's really no competition, if I were only to save $20 then I may have a dilemma. I'm almost positive a few months down the Kingston can probably be found for $80 which would give me 128GB RAID 0 option, 1.5x more read/writes times and only a $40 price bump from the Crucial now and the same cost as a OCZ right now. That's 64GB more disk space with reads speeds of the Crucial in SATA-600 (400mb/s) and write speeds of the OCZ (250mb/s) if I decide in the future go the RAID option.
I only considered getting a SSD because of the promotion going on for the Kingston right now, at regular price it would cost me $135 for the Kingston and obvious I would choose the Crucial over the Kingston both a regular price. On top of all that, I never considered a SSD to begin with, I'm perfectly happy with my 7200.12 in RAID right now.
Anyhow, I'm in the process of placing an order for the Kingston SSDNow V100 64GB along with a Seagate 7200.12 1TB and a MSI N460GTX HAWK 1GB videocard as an upgrade to my current XFX HD 5770 1GB.
Hope it all works out, thanks again to all for the inputs.