• Looking at a OCZ vertex 4 SSD, is it worth it?
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To save money, when I built my pc, I took some 5400 rpm green hard drives out of my externals. I'm kind of sick of slow read and write speeds so I'm looking to upgrade. I was going to go with a 7200 rpm drive, but since I already have around 2.75 TB of space, I thought I might as well pick an SSD since I'm not in need for more space. So I've been looking around, and I've heard good things about this drive. [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227791&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo[/url] But I also see this [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226236[/url] tons of good reviews, far cheaper for only 8 GB less. Would it be worth the cash to get the vertex 4? Or could I save a bit of cash and get the cheaper drive?
I have a Vertex 4, since economies of scale in importing made it cheaper than the other options - it's nice in theory, but upgrade the firmware to 1.4 ASAP, you'll likely have to dance around with the BIOS to the extent that bootloader won't find your existing Windows installation and you'll have to reinstall Windows on your fallback HD just to upgrade the firmware, and it's up in the air whether the drive feels like registering itself on startup (or is it just ASUS' shitty ACHI implementation?) or resuming from sleep. The promised land is somewhere out there, although I don't think you'll be that fussed about it, since you're early-adopting an SSD anyway.
It'll die on you anywhere between 1 day and 1 year from purchase. [editline]4th June 2012[/editline] The Crucial M4 is far more reliable and generally just better than OCZ's crap.
OCZ have historically made poor decisions in areas that directly affect longevity, a more major concern in SSDs than performace. This is because the performance differences between current and incoming generation SSDs are not significant enough to produce a noticeable difference in all but niche usage scenarios due to the already high level of performance offered. While the Vertex and Agility 4s are based on a different controller than the ones on which OCZ previously underperformed on reliability, I would personally caution against it, as there are other SSDs from manufacturers which have much better track-records for similar prices and basically identical real-world performance.
Crucial M4. Cheaper, more reliable, etc.
I think I'll be going with the Crucial M4, Thanks.
If you have the extra cash, look at the intel 530 series or the high end corsair.
M4's are really good value. Buy.com had a 512gb M4 for 350 dollars last week. Almost bought it :D
get 2 crucial m4 240gb's and pop them into raid 0 if your using windows8
Why would you raid two SSD's? The bandwidth is already crazy high on SATAIII. Also don't you lose the advanced features like TRIM?
The intel drivers in Win8 are able to send TRIM commands to raid0 SSDs, apparently.
crucial is so far the best SSD brand based upon all reviews I've read.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;36206428]Why would you raid two SSD's? The bandwidth is already crazy high on SATAIII. Also don't you lose the advanced features like TRIM?[/QUOTE] Trim's irrelevant on the Crucial drives. As long as you over provision the drives. I've ran 2x OCZ Vertex 2's 50GB in a raid-0. Took about 4-5TB of writes / drive with no issues yet. I've ran 2x OCZ Agility 3's 120GB in a raid-0, about 5TB of writes / drive on SATAII, and is now in another RAID-0 setup on my dad's Z77 system. I'm now running 2x Crucial M4's 128GB in RAID-0 OP'd to about 105GB / drive. No stuttering at all, the agility 3's on my X58 setup did stutter a bit, however it's working good on my dads Z77 setup though
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