If money wasn't an issue...

[zod96]

I just bought the Intel X25-M G2 for $250 And yes its fast and quiet. But I think if I had to do it all over again, I would have waited for the prices to drop below $200 say $189 or something. Basically your paying 10 times more money for 10 second faster load times, yet 1/4 the hard drive space.

 

[doclucas]

Originally posted by: zod96
I just bought the Intel X25-M G2 for $250 And yes its fast and quiet. But I think if I had to do it all over again, I would have waited for the prices to drop below $200 say $189 or something. Basically your paying 10 times more money for 10 second faster load times, yet 1/4 the hard drive space.

Interesting, but a bit off topic...

 

[zod96]

Yeah sorry about that. I actually meant to say following my post, that if I had the money I would have gone with the 160gb version on the intel X25M g2

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Majic 7
taltamir. http://www.ocztechnology.com/p...ve_m84_pci_express_ssd

nice; I forgot about that one... this is really a raid controller + 4 drives on one "package", but it is still a slot drive nonetheless and should combine kick ass performance with speedy bootups.

So yea, it does have an advantage over the intels... although you could buy multiple intels and raid them.

The colossus looks really interesting too (another internal raid0 drive; but more sophisticated; one single board)... I can't wait for it to arrive.

 

[themusgrat]

Even RAIDed Intel Es don't get the performance that the new huge capacity raided PCI-X drives say they'll get. It's hard to know though based on paper specs, with spnning hard drives there were a ton of variables that allowed manufacturers to claim retarded stats, but as we get to the point where a new drive should perform the same for everybody, no matter what you're doing with it, the margin for exaggeration keeps getting smaller and smaller, so theoretically SSDs should perform very close to their actual specs. Maybe I'm dreaming. But still, the new drives should outperform RAIDed Intel drives. Likely, since it's a closed system, they're able to optimize the RAID controller a bit and grab a bit of extra performance. Also having the drives on a PCI-X lane or 4 should help alot with real world performance.

 

[taltamir]

heh... what they CLAIM they will get matters little... its what the actual benchmarked performance is that matters.

 

[bradley]

Originally posted by: zod96
I just bought the Intel X25-M G2 for $250 And yes its fast and quiet. But I think if I had to do it all over again, I would have waited for the prices to drop below $200 say $189 or something. Basically your paying 10 times more money for 10 second faster load times, yet 1/4 the hard drive space.

You get all pumped up by review sites showing synthetic benchmarks only to have real world expectations mean far less, perhaps: halved boot times and several seconds shaved off of other things.

Not owning an SSD myself, but having played extensively with the Vertex and X25-M, I believe the most tangible benefit is currently had by heavy multi-taskers in greater responsiveness and less mechanical wear-and-tear. Though that's not enough reason for me to chance buyers remorse.

I'm patiently waiting for prices to drop sub-$2 a GB. SSD is still in its infancy, and not that far from RAM drives of past years, like the iRAM. I guess if money wasn't an object, mainstream retail drives like X-Drive m84 and Super Talent RAIDDrive do seem intriguing, on paper.

 

[taltamir]

things install in a fraction of the time, games installed to it perform much better. extracting rars, etc is much faster...
The speed is unbeleiveable and I would hardly call it being suckered...
In fact, I thought my other computer was having HDD issues at first, until I benchmarked it to be the exact same as before... my perception of "speed" has simply changed.

 

[chrisf6969]

If money wasn't an issue.... among your choices, I'd go with the Intel X25-M 160Gb G2.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: jimhsu
5. A RamSan-6200. http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-6200.htm

:shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

Symmetrix V-MAX FTW!

V-Max with 100 x 400GB enterprise SSD drives and 128GB of shared cache...max out the front-end, DAs and layout the volumes across all of the drives.

You can buy better, but can't spend more!