Solid State Drive? SDD - Questions/Help

[JonnyJ]

So my Western Digital HD is going, got a blue screen of death earlier and a friend came over and ran a few diagnostics on it with Hirens [i dont know much] It failed a short test and the long had over 7 errors at midway point.

i personally play a game online and replacing with a ssd sounds good. My WD drive is under warranty so i will surely get a replacement and just put that back on later along side the SSD.


i need the SSD to be 120-128 gig and i know my motherboard only supports sata 2, i was informed that they are backwards compatible so i know both the sata 2 and 3 versions would work...

i only need windows and my game to run on here [game is around 30 gigs] i use my mac for business and other things.


does anyone know what the best bang for the buck is? i personally would like to spend 100-150 max.


i was looking at this...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171545


anyone have any input?



my comps running an i7,8 gigs,gtx 590


so hard to look at reviews considering the fact that they all have some DOAs and crashing reports. ugh

 

[Widdy]

If I had to buy a new SSD today, I would go with the Crucial M4 and update it with their latest firmware.

 

[isnyc300]

I have 2 ssd Running raid 0. Ime ocz has worked very well. Try the vertex 3

 

[Widdy]

I'm on a Vertex 2 right now, and been banging away at it for about a year now. No problems at all, but as with all SandForce-based SSDs (OCZ Vertex is one) they were problematic initially, but were largely fixed with firmware updates.

 

[JonnyJ]

can you please link me any examples of something you would buy.

thanks!

 

[Widdy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148442

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227706

Vertex 3 will be the faster of the 2. Check Slickdeals as well... quite a few deals on SSDs. Was a lot 2-3 weeks ago due to end of Q1.

 

[isnyc300]

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16820148442

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16820227706

vertex 3 will be the faster of the 2. Check slickdeals as well... Quite a few deals on ssds. Was a lot 2-3 weeks ago due to end of q1.

+1

 

[reefman]

If I had to buy a new SSD today, I would go with the Crucial M4 and update it with their latest firmware.

+1
just got 1 myself with the 25$/$30 rebate from staples.

 

[pmui]

what program would you install on it? do you just install the OS?

 

[Josh]

OCZ Vertex, although now I am looking at the newer PCI RAM cards for speeding up the OS.

 

[jackson6745]

If I had to buy a new SSD today, I would go with the Crucial M4 and update it with their latest firmware.

I'm running this on my mac. I wouldn't know the performance difference from this SSD or any other one, but this was certainly a huge performance upgrade compared to the stock hard drive

 

[Widdy]

I'm running this on my mac. I wouldn't know the performance difference from this SSD or any other one, but this was certainly a huge performance upgrade compared to the stock hard drive

Yes, it's one of the few upgrades that brings a significant performance increase. Solid State > Mechanical.

 

[JonnyJ]

Just ordered the vertex three! New egg offered 15% off no tax free shipping

135$

Steal!