Which ~64GB SSD?

Hi,

I was all set to buy the Corsair F60 SSD drive until I read a certain F120 review and had second thoughts. The Crucial C300 64GB is a similar price and the 256GB C300 gets a stunning review on the same site, but the 64GB version only has 1/4 the write speed. The Corsair Nova is also recommended and the Kingston V100 is yet another option at a similar price. Does the write speed of the 64GB C300 write it off? Is the F60 really that bad? Any advice much appreciated. (If it makes any difference I will be installing Linux.)

Cheers, Jamie

So the F60 has now gone up in price a bit meaning that the V100 is considerably cheaper than the rest (£75 vs £95).

I've now also seem a Corsair X64 for a similar price.

 

right now with everyone on the planet publishing their own disk benchmarks, about the best research tool for ssds is google images. search "Corsaid f60" and when you pick an average enough looking snapshot of the benchmark speeds, make sure you compare numbers of other disks' results with only images of that same benchmarking tool.

(I notice that the fall in disk speed on the crystaldisk mark is not really that bad:
f120: 215/120
f60: 200/100

with the Crucial C300 a little caution is needed -- significant revisions of that disk exist under the same name... its not just a matter of having optimized drivers or not, the physical disk changes but the brand name does not. try to be very speciifc when searching for results on that disk

 

Kingston 64GB SSDNOW V100 - SATA-II 2.5" - Read.. | Ebuyer.com
I bought this recently and quite pleased with it, my 3yr old laptop works like a new one. Vista HP, Office,Skype and few small programs take up 15GB and using the old hard drive for Data storage in an external enclosure.

 

Thanks for you help guys.