SSD - Should I.....?

[CaNsA]

Rig-
i7 930 D0 @ 3.74GHz
12Gb Geil DDR3 1333 T/C
GA-X58A-UD3R (R2.0)
Antec H20 920 + 2 Silent Vipers
N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L160M0 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s - O/S Drive
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 250-GB Hard Drive - Storage
Samsung EcoGreen HD103SI 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 32MB Cache 5400RPM - Storage


And i have just realised i have my O/S on the slowest drive *facepalm*

Anyways, Corsair 120GB Force GT SSD.

Deffo a "need" and not a "want".
Never a want, ever

opinions/problems/issues?

Cheers

[supZ]

in short.. GET ONE!

they're awesome.

just upgraded my pc and im currently running a 120gb 6gb/s SATA3 550mb/s beast. i had a SATA2 230mb/s before that and the difference was insane going from my raid0 setup.

it'll make a huge difference to your pc.

need over want.. dunno but GET ONE!

its funny, my machine takes longer to post than it does to get into windows. we're talking like 4-5 seconds from windows logo to being able to login

your board supports 6Gbps/SATA3 too so get the beasty one. went kingston hyperx myself. 555mb/s read 510mb/s write. shame your other drives arent up to it.
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[Frost]

It's a good idea but i wouldn't get that drive. Check out some of the views and you'll see that the advertised speed is only true for a brand new blank drive. As soon as you stick an OS on it the advertised speeds are meaningless.

https://www.tomshardware.com/charts/ssd-charts-2011/AS-SSD-Sequential-Read,2782.html

That drive you mentioned gets a real world 267.5MB/S sequential read speed for example. Quite a bit down on the claimed 555MB/s less than half in fact. All the claims are unrealistic but some worse than others.

[Dilyan]

I was disappointed with my SSD. Massive FAIL. Broke within a week. Thankfully Amazon are ace with returns.

https://cache.megatechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Corsair-Force-Series-3-120GB-SSD.jpg

If you upgrade, make sure you have a good backup. But, mind you, with this sort of rig you should be aware of all this
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[supZ]

[Jayy]

SSD = Pure win, you will not believe how much of a difference it makes. Remember the day you went from 56k to broadband? It's a bit like that

[Hetzer]

I've had the Corsair 120Gb since the middle of last year and it still rocks.
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[Jayy]

OCZ do an SSD tool that lets you analyse the drive, had a little look at it last week and still got 100% life left in it after a year of use. Also handy for upgrading the firmware on it if you haven't done it.

[Hetzer]

[Phil.]

I bought a 64gb SSD recently and the start up times for windows 7 are noticeably faster.

I went with a mid range one I found through a Toms Hardware review:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/buy-ssd-recommendation-value,3088-6.html

So far it has been a great performance boost for day to day stuff.

[Jayy]

https://www.hdsentinel.com/thanks_for_downloading.php?file=https://www.harddisksentinel.com/hdsentinel_trial_setup.zip

Use HD Sentinel, will tell you everything you need to know.

[Frost]

[Jayy]

[Rogerborg]

[Hetzer]

Cheers Jay.

The status of the solid state disk is PERFECT. Problematic or weak sectors were not found.
The TRIM feature of the SSD is supported and enabled for optimal performance.
The health is determined by SSD specific S.M.A.R.T. attribute(s): #231 SSD Life Left
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[Scythe]

As long as you have a drive with decent reliable controller (OCZ agility's are notoriously unreliable, AVOID) and TRIM enabled in Windows 7, you'll be alright.

The Corsair M4's scream as the best all rounders in speed and reliability from what I've seen. Have a look at the OCUK forums Cansa, they've just released a overall review of it and the M4 comes out on top a lot. I'd link but I can't seem to be able to get on it atm, it's under the storage drives section.

OCUK has them on offer a lot too, always good saving a few quid
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[Welshd1k]

maby buy 1 fast main drive first a 1tb f3 etc ,,,,,
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[tsmith]

got a crucial m4 ssd 256gb in my trusty core2quad

its a massive boost in speed. everything is faster.

in short, definitely worth getting.

[CaNsA]

Cheers for the info peeps, I check out the review on OCUK Scythe.

No point in buying a 1TB F3 as it wont be any faster than my barracuda that i have at the moment.

[Dilyan]

Sorry to keep going on this but .. SSDs have a lifespan???? Didn't know that!
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[Irn-Bru]

Get one! Probably the best upgrade you can do. Stay away from OCZ though, their Vertex 2 drives are honorific and personally I wouldn't trust their other ones either, but that's because of my bad experiences with them. I went through 2 of the bastards before getting a refund, second one lasted less than 2 months as well (OCZ 60GB Vertex 2).

[CaNsA]

Just ordered a 128GB Crucial m4 for 140 quid, with TCB and Quidco should work out to be about £100.

I wonder if both TCB and Quidco can be claimed......

[supZ]

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