What SSD are you using and how much did you pay?

SharkBait said:
I am also in the market now for a SSD and am getting mixed feelings about the new SATA6G drives...





I assume you bought that from Razer on carbonite?



IIRC, he paid R3800 for the revo drive and that was second hand... :confused:
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Yes, traded the corsair ssd for the revodrive. Seems the issue with the newer drives are with the Marvel controllers. Even the Revodrive didn't want to work if I had drives plugged into my sata6g ports. Disabled the controller in the bios, moved the two drives to sata2 ports and 10 minutes later I booted up into a fresh copy of windows 7.
 
Don't know hey. See he's selling most of his other stuff. My guess he's probably keeping the 240GB SSD for his new system.
 
SharkBait said:
IIRC, he paid R3800 for the revo drive and that was second hand... :confused:
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Revodrive is listed at R5,500 for 240GB so R3,800 is probably a bargain even for second hand. But the comparison should really be made with a new retail drive so R1,250/60GB is the most a slower drive should cost. The integrated raid and fact that you don't need any SATA ports is worth the few hundred extra.
 
I got the 128Gb A-Data S599 in May. Was the best buy that I could see if you compare the size, speeds (280mbps read / 270mbps write) and price (R2000 ex VAT) at that time. No problems on my side and for me, definitely worth the money.

I wouldn't spend that kind of money on a SSD for gaming (my OS for games is still on a normal HDD partition anyway), but for a work PC especially for software development, no question. Time from power on to logged in and all startup services started (including 2 instances of SQL Server) is under 30 seconds but the big difference is when working within Visual Studio.
 
Yeah it has, unfortunatly haven't had time to pop it in :( Will do this weekend :D SO i can do a fresh install.
 
6 months ago I was able to get a OCZ Vertex II 120Gb from a mate who was visiting from the UK. So at the time I got it for a real bargain, R1800. It's been the single most beneficial piece of hardware for me in the last few years.

Since it uses the Sandforce chipset it's prone to one issue that I did run into, if the drive is very full the performance suffers quite a bit. I now try to keep at least 30% of the HDD space free and the performance is snappy again. So much for running my steam off of it lol :P (300Gb steam folder)
 
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