SSD Fight!

-TangleFoot-

OCZ slaps Sandisk with great anger and furious vengeance - KitGuru

S0litaire

drat!
I paid around £80 for my 60Gb OCZ Agility 3 a couple of months ago!!

If only I waited.. ^_~

Notmyrealname

S0litaire wrote: »

drat!
I paid around £80 for my 60Gb OCZ Agility 3 a couple of months ago!!

If only I waited.. ^_~

Welcome to the world of PCs since 1986.

Dussed

This is the SSD I bought back in February (Agility 3 120gb), great performance from it.
I've seen from near enough every ebuyer email since that the price keeps dropping on it. Might be an idea to buy a few more and raid 0 them :P

-TangleFoot-

AData comes in to land a 120GB closer to 70 quid - KitGuru

Kernel_Sanders

S0litaire wrote: »

drat!
I paid around £80 for my 60Gb OCZ Agility 3 a couple of months ago!!

If only I waited.. ^_~

I'm sure that if you had, then you'd still be frustrated in another couple of months when the price falls to £49.99!
I've been trying to compare this price with those of high capacity SD cards. Would the class of the SSD equate to 4 or 10?

gonzo127

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

I'm sure that if you had, then you'd still be frustrated in another couple of months when the price falls to £49.99!
I've been trying to compare this price with those of high capacity SD cards. Would the class of the SSD equate to 4 or 10?

SSD's are far far far beyond any class of SD card as a class 10 SD card writes at 10MB/s where's a slow SSD will write at about 100MB/s and a faster one will write at around 250MB/s with the fastest ones writing at about 500MB/s

this being said you can pick up a 60-64GB SSD for under £50 now, if you cant quite stretch to the £70 or £80 for the 128gb ones

alinwales

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

I'm sure that if you had, then you'd still be frustrated in another couple of months when the price falls to £49.99!
I've been trying to compare this price with those of high capacity SD cards. Would the class of the SSD equate to 4 or 10?

as above (gonzo), SSD != SD.
Two totally different things.


As an aside, you can get decent (i.e. synchronous nand) 256GB SSDs for around £150 ( saw £155 for a crucial M4, which I paid £150 for a 128GB version last august).

Worth noting that in general, the larger the capacity of the SSD the better the performance. There's a huge jump between 64/128(+/-) and 256/512(+/-).

In today's world, forget anything else, an SSD is the upgrade that will speed up a computer.

Dussed

Don't know if anyone else gets this. But reading this thread brings a certain video to mind...

Kernel_Sanders

Thanks Al & Gonzo, as I'm sure you realize, my knowledge of HDDs is negligible! My interest was prompted by me dropping my Asus Eee on the pavement from a height of about 2 feet. There's now a nasty gash in the corner of the otherwise pristine case (18 months old), but no functional damage. Obviously the HDD would not have survived had it been spinning, so I was thinking of maybe running a Linux OS off a large capacity SD card when on my travels. From what I have learnt on this thread, it could now be viable to replace the HDD even on an XP machine of this age. The clincher would be if I could use the netbook's massive (for me!) 160GB disc in one of my old towers (currently 20GB and 6.5GB!) Are these discs that versatile?

gonzo127

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Thanks Al & Gonzo, as I'm sure you realize, my knowledge of HDDs is negligible! My interest was prompted by me dropping my Asus Eee on the pavement from a height of about 2 feet. There's now a nasty gash in the corner of the otherwise pristine case (18 months old), but no functional damage. Obviously the HDD would not have survived had it been spinning, so I was thinking of maybe running a Linux OS off a large capacity SD card when on my travels. From what I have learnt on this thread, it could now be viable to replace the HDD even on an XP machine of this age. The clincher would be if I could use the netbook's massive (for me!) 160GB disc in one of my old towers (currently 20GB and 6.5GB!) Are these discs that versatile?

although this is going a little bit off thread the answer is a little bit inconclusive since it will depend on you computer,

the reason for this is because of the hard drive interface, as SSD's run on SATA (2 or 3 depending on the drive but these are interchangable), the Asus Eee will also be SATA (probably 2) so should be easily able to take a SSD, HOWEVER your old computer sounds like it might use the older ide connectors which unfortunatly are not compatable (directly) with a SATA drive, but you can get a converter

now there are a few others ways to get use out of the 160gb hard drive and my suggestion would be to buy a 'usb caddy' which in effect will turn your 160gb hard drive into a portable hard drive which can connect to a computer via USB port