SSD here i come-Need advice

[Detale]

OK so I'm exhausted doing all this reading on SSD's I have a few questions/thoughts maybe you guys can help me with.

Firstly I'm shopping in the $350 price range
Should I get 2 64GB disks and Raid em or a single 128 GB disk?
Any ideas on recommendations as far as Brand/company to lean towards?
SLC vs MLC???

ATM I am looking at Crucial or Corsair, mostly Corsair namely this one here

Corsair P128



Ideas,opinions,thought?? PLEASE HELP!!! My eyes hurt and I'm going insane reading all these reviews like.

[ckrit]

I like my corsairs, but it should be noted that the P-series is said to suffer from higher performance degradation than anything intel.

Last I checked, the intel ones were still the most popular ones overall.

Also look at this. The linked article in particular.

On the topic of SLC vs MLC, the general consensus atm seems to be that SLC is more promising.

Whatever you get, TRIM support is a good thing to look for, anyhow.

[Skiz]

If you're gonna do it, get the single 128GB. My "C" drive sits at around 70GB used usually, so anything 64GB would surely be too little. That's me anyhow.

Just for the record though, I think it's a waste of money. I just bought a TB drive for $84 and you're buying 128GB drive for $400? For a desktop? Why not purchase a 15,000 RPM drive instead for less than half the price/gig?

If it were a laptop, I'd say go for it. I have an SSD in my laptop and that's b/c I drag it everywhere I go and don't want a rotary drive bumping around inside. But for a desktop?

PS - ^Snee, your link is bad.

[clocker]

If you're gonna do it, get the single 128GB. My "C" drive sits at around 70GB used usually, so anything 64GB would surely be too little. That's me anyhow.

Just for the record though, I think it's a waste of money. I just bought a TB drive for $84 and you're buying 128GB drive for $400? For a desktop? Why not purchase a 15,000 RPM drive instead for less than half the price/gig?

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There are no 15k rpm drives.

Also, I think it's a mistake to use the $/GB, "bang fer the buck" logic for all drives.
A storage can afford to be slow and clunky...you'll probably never notice.
Your OS drive(s) need much more speed/low access times and for that, nothing beats the SSD.

I'm looking for a 30GB SSD for my C:.
After nearly a year, my current C: drive has less than 15GB on it.

[ckrit]

PS - ^Snee, your link is bad.

NOW someone tells me

[Detale]

So any recommendations like?

[clocker]

I've only got one word for ya, kid...plastics.

[Detale]

Have you been drinking again Clock? If not, for the love of god elaborate.

[clocker]

If you didn't catch the reference from The Graduate, well...there's just no hope.

Fuck sakes dude, I know nuttin' about current SSD tech.
That lack of specific knowledge has never deterred me before so...get two of these bad boys, toss 'em in a RAID0 array and live long and prosper.

Actually, a friend of mine just ordered a pair for himself and is going to do that very thing. Should be pretty fuckin cool.

[Detale]

I never thought I'd live to see the day. YOU don't know about some computer tech. I'm stunned. The graduate eh. I've never watched it all the way through. i always seem to fall asleep and miss parts of it. Those look good I guess. It's so hard to find a clear cut "better or worse" simple answer about SSD's out there. I guess they're too new.

I am getting it/them for Xmas so I have a few weeks I guess, I'm just burnt out over research. Thanks for the input as always dude, you rock.