Going to Upgrade to SSD

Hi guys, i'm planning to upgrade to 1 or 2 (raid 0) ssd.

I may get at a good price here localy for some Kingston SSD drive. Does anybody know how good they are? I've experience with kingston for they RAM modules and they are good.

Size would be either 120 or 160 GB

Any opinion is apreciated

 

kingston drives suck for performance...not worth the money at all...stick with OCZ Vertex II, Intel, G.skill Phoenix Pro, Corsair Force or you could wait couple months for third gen drives to hit the shelf.

 

Performance wise they are bad compared to other SSD but still good compared to normal hdd? I'm more concerned about reliability of the drives (one of the reasons of the upgrade). How is kingston under this point of view?

Third Generation drives will be compatible with our controllers?

Thanks for the info Faiz23

 

Third gen SSDs will be compatible, but kinda pointless (I think) since they can use SATA III and the M17x R2 is only compatible up to SATA II. If you do decide to go RAID 0, check out my Intel RAID 0 setup linked in my sig. It's what I did to setup my drives for max performance, and it's my everyday setup. It wasn't setup for benchmarking numbers. That post has links to all the tweaks I used.

 

I have friends that have had unreliable experiences with Kingston's SSD Now series. I personally have a Vertex II that I absolutely love, so I'd have to recommend that.

 

I found this on e-bay.. looks quite good to me. What do you think?

Edit (link ) http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-OCZ-AGILITY...789?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a448134d

 

Ok i make up my mind and bought the Agility 2. Hopefully it will arrive next week.

Thank you all for the infos and advices

 

So did MI9Tech ship to Mexico? Congrats. Did you decide to go RAID or just a single drive? Either way, I'm sure your going to enjoy your system a lot more.

 

Im also looking at SSD's - one or two. Kinda torn between wether 1 larger one is best or 2 smaller ones in raid 0 (to equal the same size) given the lack of TRIM on SSD's in raid (does it make that much difference?)

I have been looking at X25-M 160gb but dont want to pull the trigger cos of G3 drives tba.

Im also looking at Crucial C300 128/256 drives.....anyone know how they perform limited to SataII as opposed to III?

Another contender for me is Samsung 470 series...

Im in a bit of a minefield really....any advice appreciated!

 

I am in the same situation as you are. Do we have a date on when those Gen 3 Intel SSD will hit the market? I have only seen estimates of end of Q1

 

Same here, if i google it, comes up with Feb....WHEN THOUGH lol....

 

I havn't had any TRIM issues, but if you go RAID 0 check the link in my sig (RAID 0 link) It has all the tweaks I did to maximize performance on the chipset. Also I do a weekly image if my system after deleting all temp files so when I need to re-image my system, I just secure erase the drives, than re-image. It's nice because my image is tweaked and after re-imaging, I need to do nothing. My system is clean as a whistle and I have about 15 games installed.


Also, like I showed CPT Barras, check this for a nice drive. Good drive and good price. MI9Tech

 

Thats a 3.5" drive....how the heck is that gonna fit in!

 

Good call, I didn't even notice that

Should have posted this one. 2.5" Drive

 

Agility II

featuring superb 4k random writes up to 10,000 IOPS

OCZSSD2-2AGTE180G:OCZ Technology 180GB Agility2 SATAII 2.5 SSD



Vertex II
with spectacular performance in 4k file writes up to 50¸000 IOPS


OCZSSD2-2VTX200G 200GB SSD Vertex SATA II 2.5 Retail

 

Yup, seen them too...nice drives. Im kinda stuck on getting a direct comparison between all of 'em though! also seen these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-069-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427 same 50k IOPS but 25nm .....bear in mind im in the UK so prices are ***expletive*** expensive...s'why am after the best deal!!

 

How does it stack up against the Samsung 470 series
Newegg.com - SAMSUNG 470 Series MZ-5PA256/US 2.5" 256GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

I recall reading somewhere that the Sammy SSD's are the ones that Dell use on our systems if ordered - basically same drive but without all the fancy casing etc.....dont know how true that is cos I also heard that they are Samsung PM800 SSD's.....not owning one, I couldnt say which is true although I think there is a thread by Joker on TRIM support for PM800 drives, so probably the latter is used by Dell.....

 

dell uses samsung for its ssd oem.

pm800 are the old sammys - no special case for them - oem or retail. newer firmwares support trim, some older firmwares can be updated. there's a whole thread about it. model # starts with MMDPE.

pm810 are the new sammys. these are the same as the 470 series. the retail ones come in the fancy case with the orange. oem ones don't. same drive internally. model number starts with MZ5PA. all support trim.

the pm810 drives are faster and have much improved 4k performance.

 

that still does not answer the question of how the Samsung 470 series compare with the Vertex 2 that Faiz was suggesting

 

Got a question for the X25-M experts!

Ok, so I think this is a good deal. Just need some clarification.

Found a seller who can do me TWO X25-M 160gb SSD's for £400gbp delivered. Brand New and Sealed.

They are "bare drive" only .... Model number SSDSA2MH160G2C1

Checked out Intel website here Intel® Solid State Drives, Features which shows at the bottom all the various codes. Indicates SSD only so no fancy cables/install cd/etc

Question is, Do I NEED any of the extra blurb or will this particular "version" just fit into my M17x without the need for any of the other stuff?

Also, do I NEED the install CD?

Seems like a sweet deal to me but wanted to clarify these things BEFORE I take it further.

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks Guys.

 

Personally, if I ever do an SSD install again, I'm going with a brand that ships with updated firmware. My OCZ experience was "less than" satisfactory thanks to my inability to update the FW.

 

Doesnt really answer my question though.....