Best Place to Buy an SSD for the R2?

I'm upgrading my two 5870s to 6990s in a few weeks and I figure I might as well incorporate an SSD with my current hard drives while I have the thing open. Any suggestions?

 

What is your budget and what size capacity do you want to get?

 

I guess as big of one as I can use. What I'm really unsure of is what kind of vendor to use. I've looked on Newegg and their selection of notebook SSDs are slim to none.

 

I believe the biggest commercially available ones are 512gb ssd's. But those go between $700-900 depending on the brand.

I saw a non commercially available 1tb ssd a few days ago though.
Probably going to retail for around $1500-2000. Doesn't seem worth it

 

Go with a 256gb one and look into warranties, study those as well as speeds. I have yet.... to own a SDD that I didn't have to RMA at one point or another. Not sure why my luck is so bad with SSD or what I'm doing wrong with them to kill them but I've RMA'ed 4 in the last 3-4 years no joke. Out of all of that, what would you think is the most outrageous element? LoL... What I thought was outrageous was that when I call up intel or whoever to RMA for the 2nd/3rd time they don't even hassle me or thinking anything of it. Which led to me think that they either have AWESOME customer service or these things happen often, lol...

 

There is a 1tb version coming from OCZ...called OCtane. All new Controller from Indilinx so it looks promising

I think the sweet spot right now is the 256gig drives. There are lots of sales on the 120gig drives that you can find

I would recommend the Crucial M4...or wait for the OCZ Octane which is suppose to be next gen with the newest features (note...no more sandforce controller)

 

Wow, Intel does have great customer service. I have three intel drives, 2xIntel X-25M 160GB and one X-25V 40GB. I killed the X-25V once and it was RMAed quickly by Intel no questions. That drive I abused pretty bad as it was my dedicated benchmarking drive. Nothing but benching related software/drivers on it. Crazy number of restarts on it, low number of hours, all benching related.. My Intel X-25M 160GB drives though have been rock solid. I've reimaged and secure erased (through Ubuntu) them so many times and they still run like new. Never had a drive issue with them. At least not yet and I've had them for a over 1.5 years. But Intel will be my choice on my next drive due to customer support.

OP, defiantely keep warranty in mind in case you need it. Speeds are nice, but warranty is much more important in my opinion.

 

I think I'm gonna go with
Newegg.com - Crucial M4 CT256M4SSD2 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Seems like a good deal for the price.

 

That's an excellent drive.

You can save almost $25 if you get it from amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...YPI_1?ie=UTF8&m=A1O9892XEO4YPI&n=&s=&v=glance

 

Nice find on the Amazon price. +rep.