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SSD excitement
Posted on January 14th, 2010 2 commentsFor some reason yesterday I jumped back into my SSD “kick.” With memory prices doubling over the past 6 months I assumed that all memory went up and there was no reason to waste my time on looking at a Solid State Drive. I had to check prices yesterday and it didn’t seem too bad. I was staring at a nice Patriot drive that was a pretty good balance between price and performance. However a quick email from NewEgg this morning has me checking out a drive by OCZ. It offers close to the same performance as the Patriot but is about $80 cheaper thanks to a MIR.
My biggest hurdle though is always money! The Xmas season is over and I’m getting a bearing on the credit card bills and other people I owe money to. It looks like I might be getting closer to purchasing one of these speed demons? Have any of you purchased one of these drives yet? Are all the good reviews really true?
2 responses to “SSD excitement”
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I have two Intel X25-M G2′s striped on a P55 chipset, and WOW!!! The single most impressive upgrade I’ve ever done to my workstation. The SSDs made more of a performance difference to my photo editing than a Core i7 and an ATI 5870. This is Everest’s benchmark on them: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=783239&l=2af9b70c6e&id=1245616163 I’ll never go back to hard drives except for large data storage (multimedia/games) and backups/archival.
According to Anandtech.com the OCZ Vertex is also very good. I don’t know what controller Patriot is using, but I’ve been happy with their other products like thumbdrives.
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30GB OCZ Vertex, $124.99 with $20 mail in rebate. Kinda small, but great value!
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