Solid state drive purchase help

Killura · Mar 12, 2010

I have an 80GB intel solid state drive and i want to upgrade to a 120, take a look at this drive and tell me what you think. Pretty much rate it on value, performance, quality, and freatures. It looks like a good deal and good speeds but im still not very knowlegable about these drives yet, Thanks.... http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4364405&CatId=5300

angelkiller · Mar 12, 2010

The Vertex is a good choice. Good performance, no glaring issues or anything like that. I would definitely recommend it.

jasper1605 · Mar 12, 2010

why not get another 80 and raid 0 them so you can nearly double your read speeds? Or does that not work so well w/ ssds yet?

digibucc · Mar 12, 2010

it works but in my experience, my drives are now limited by everything else... my internet speed, my other hard drives, my optical drives, etc. technically you can raid but unless you have software that is constantly accessing the hardrive in large volumes, more size is of more value than extra speed at this point.

DonInKansas · Mar 12, 2010

digibucc said:
it works but in my experience, my drives are now limited by everything else... my internet speed, my other hard drives, my optical drives, etc. technically you can raid but unless you have software that is constantly accessing the hardrive in large volumes, more size is of more value than extra speed at this point.

He will have more size. 80gb more size.

digibucc · Mar 12, 2010

DonInKansas said:
He will have more size. 80gb more size.

raid 0 is stripe isn't it, not mirror? doh :eek:

OrbitzXT · Mar 12, 2010

jasper1605 said:
why not get another 80 and raid 0 them so you can nearly double your read speeds?

I was considering doing that for my own build, but was told that currently if you put two SSD's in RAID you can't use TRIM which keeps your SSD from degrading over time. Has that changed recently?

lemode · Mar 12, 2010

OrbitzXT said:
I was considering doing that for my own build, but was told that currently if you put two SSD's in RAID you can't use TRIM which keeps your SSD from degrading over time. Has that changed recently?

nope trim isn't supported in raided ssds...yet.

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