what SSD would you recommend?

I was thinking about getting myself a solid state harddrive, I have about 250 bucks, which one would you recommend for space and reliability?

 

Crucial M4 from RAM Memory Upgrade: Dell, Mac, Apple, HP, Compaq. USB drives, SSD at Crucial.com

 

Currently running a OCZ Vertex 2 120GB
its about 170-200$ now
Does read speed up to 285mb/s and write 275mb/s
since R2 and R1 doesn't support SATA3 6gbps
a decent Sata 2 SSD would get the job done

 

I bought my Vertex 2 almost 2 months ago or so and I totally recommend you this SSD

 

M4 is the way to go, Sandforce isn't the most reliable at the moment, and that covers pretty much any drive but Crucial or Intel (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

 

my Asus G53 gets along pretty well with the Corsair F120 (Sandforce 12xx). Not a single issue with it (fingers crossed, hope i dont jinx it )

No idea about M11x tho, so i'm watching this thread too

 

Crucial C300 / M4 128GB or OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB.

In the M11x, all of the drives will perform basically identical in real world usage. You will only be able to spot the Read/Write differences in either synthetic benchmarks or running the drives side by side at the same time.

 

hmm how much performance difference is there between a hybrid drive and a ssd?

 

You mostly will see performance boost in boot up times, if you can afford it get a full SSD.
You will never want to go to back a reg HDD.

 

little if your data read is in the 4GB flash part, a looooot slower if your data is in the hdd part.
Imo i wouldn't bother with them. Either you go cheap and get a hdd and enjoy the space or go splash some bucks and enjoy the wow factor of a ssd.

PS. I love my g53 since it gave me the opportunity to have both and now i'm flirting with the idea of getting a 256GB SSD for the m11.

 

i got 120gb patriot inferno with sandforce SF-1222TA3 controller. Only got it cause it was pretty much brand new and for just 80£, also i had good experience with Patriot brand in the past, great quality for the buck.

It is performing very well so far, though its hard to feel the 285mb/s read speed, games don't really load that much faster, though windows boot up in few seconds, barely gets the time to show that silly flag. While it is overwhelmingly faster than a HDD in many ways, something else is bottlenecking my game load times >_< and i need more RAM than 4gb cause the cursed win7 eats up 43% of it at idle as i turned off the pagefile.
Anyways game load times improved by less than 50% i'd say, i didn't do side by side comparison though, but it is still kind of disappointing.

anyways unless its real cheap get a intel or crucial ssd without the sandforce, as it does get a lot of crash and burn sort of complaints online - bad rep. While intel 320series is fairly good on price and great on reliability.

Way less power consumption than the stock 7200RPM drive as well, that beast was rated at 1.1A :O

 

heard lots of problems with sandforce SSDs (ocz, corsair) that 3 months ago i got a Crucial M4 for my desktop computer. No problems so far and really fast.
2 weeks ago I got a deal for a OCZ Agility 3 for my XPS 17 as a boot drive. I upgraded the firmware to 2.15 and did some SSD OS optimizations and no problems so far.

I'm planning to get a SSD for my M11x R3 next. Most likely a OCZ, apart from the bad reputation they have already the other thing is that power consumption is higher than the M4, still better than regular HDD.
Agilty 3= 2.7w Active, 1.5w idle
against
M4 = 0.15w Active, <65mW idle

Also if you dont have a R3, it will be better if you dont buy an SATA 3 ssd unless is cheaper than SATA 2 drive or you are planning in the future to use it in another computer which has SATA 3

 

would sata 2 in the r3 work or is there no point?

 

it will work, you just wont be using the R3's full potential, but it will still be a noticeable upgrade from a HDD.

 

No need to do that or any of the other (more or less) silly SSD optimizations except for turning of the auto defrag

There are some people on xstremesystems.org that are showing the SSD's can withstand hundreds of terrabytes of writes as opposed to the current belief that goes along the line: "OMG, my SSD will wear out if i dont disable the pagefile, move the temp folder and eventually use it for anything else than booting my windows once per day"

it's an interesting read - mind the spaces - post #1846 (in the mean time the C4 passed over 700TB)
http://www. xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm/page74

Use your ssd without the fear that it will wear out. If it will fail it will be because of bad chips, bugs etc etc, but not due to nand flash cell wearing out.

 

OCZ has now fixed their firmware problem that was causing the blue screen of death (BSOD) problems. So those should be OK to buy now.

Tom's hardware has a nice guide on SSD's. Shows you the best one for the money.

Best SSDs For The Money: October 2011 : Best SSDs For The Money: October Updates

I just bought a Crucial Force GT 240GB SSD SATA 6GB/s. I upgraded my desktop computer with that, then moved my old Intel X25-m G2 160GB SSD to my Alienware m17x R3.

I'm still running a 750GB 7200RPM HDD in my Alienware m11x R3, because I like having that much space. But someday soon I may upgrade to a high capacity SSD.

I REALLY like the Intel SSD tools software.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18455

It is only for use with Intel SSD's though, so my next SSD will likely be an Intel. Intel Cherryville SSD's are supposed to come out next month.

AnandTech - Intel Discloses Cherryville & Hawley Creek SSDs: Intel's Fastest SSD in Q4

Those would be a great SSD for the m11x. Half a terabyte of Intel optimized reliable goodness!!