SSD for SZ7's, which?

120Gb is fine. I've fished out some more SZ's I had in storage - I've been using a few of them very successfully as small servers actually since last year - and I need to use them for a few things. However I've gotten so used to SSD's that working with HDD's is a nightmare. I have, however, finally run out of all the OCZ Vertexes I have as they're all in use.

I have some X25-M Gen 2's on the way for the X201T's, should I just get the same? They probably won't be in use for more than 6-9 months on the outside and after that they will be finally got rid of, and the chances are that any other notebooks I buy will all be ordered with SSD's, so I'd like to keep costs low, but not at the expense of shooting myself in the foot performance-wise.

 

A Toshiba 2.5 SSD looks like it would be a good all round buy. You can get them for not much more than £100 on ebay.

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See this thread also for benchmarks
http://forum.notebookreview.com/len...28gb-ssd-vs-intel-80gb-x18-m-benchies-11.html

 

What do you want? Maximum battery life, (multi tasking) performance or lowest price?

 

A balance is what I'm looking for, with cost as the slightly higher preference, but not wanting to sacrifice too much performance. As I said, there's a comparatively limited window of use for these after which they will be disposed of, and they're certainly not my main notebooks and nor will they be anymore, so keeping costs low is important - but I just can't deal with platter drives anymore. Too slow.

 

A couple of suggestions:

Kingston V+ 128GB will give the same real world performance as the Intel but will save you money and increase battery life.

If you want to save even more money: Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 128GB. Unless you're into heavy multi tasking it performs fine.

Vertex 2 120GB is a bit faster than Intel G2. Cost per GB isn't much cheaper usually.

I'd recommend you the Corsair Force F120 but I've heard there are some problems with TRIM.

Crucial C300 is good too, usually quite cheap for the 128GB. Performance is faster than Intel.

 

Honestly, any of the drives that Phil mentioned would be absolutely fine. Once you get above a certain threshold in SSD performance, then you are unlikely to notice the difference in real-world use.

If you can get your hands on an inexpensive Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 128GB, then it would be a very good value buy for your money. But since you are a big fan of OCZ Vertex drives (as am I), have you considered getting the new 96GB models of the OCZ Vertex / Agility line? If I were in the market to buy an SSD, there is a good chance I would buy a 96GB model.

 

Completely agree with Kent. I've been testing between Vertex LE, Agility 2 and Crucial C300, I can't tell the difference.

Well there's a difference when I run benchmark software but I can't notice it during normal usage.

 

The Toshiba i recommeded is meant to have low power consumption and the 4K's seems on par with some of the drives in Phil's list. It's biggest selling point as i mentioned before is that you can get this very cheap. It's not the most performance oriented drive, no. It does though seem to be quite balanced.
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k24/Ideasmiths/Toshiba128GBSSDcrystalmark-1.png

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The 256 version of the WD Silcion blue drive was reviewed here.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1233/8/

 

The best all around SSDs IMO are Samsung, Toshiba, and Indilinx. While benchmarks are lower than Intel, SandForce, and Marvell, they are far faster than all current notebook HDDs and not noticeably slower than the latter 3 in real life situations. Also, the first 3 consume less power (and hence give you better battery life, lower heat, and noise - even though the SSD makes no noise, the heat produced will make the notebook fan speed up sooner). And finally, price per GB is typically much lower.

 

All right, I'm going with Kingstons. I'll buy a couple, see how it turns out, and hen do the rest. Thanks all.

 

To clarify: The V+ is the faster one. If you're going to get a V series make sure it's the second generation, the type number starts with SNV425. These perform similar to WD Edge.

 

Yes, V+ - 230/180 claimed.

 

I'm using a c300 as my secondary drive in my Z. Benchmarks tell me it's faster than the X-25m g2 i took out but I can't tell a lick of differnce in my day to day.

 

That is to be expected.

 

It is what I expected, just went for the change to put an SSD in my fiancee's laptop. The C300 dropped in price big time last week, which is why I picked that one over the others. Gave her the X-25g2 bc it was bigger (160 vs 128) since it's her only drive vs my secondary.