[SSD Thread] Seriously Solid Drive buy help needed!

Klyka

Hey guys, so I am in the market for an SSD.
I'd like to get a 120gb model which I will use purely for games (Steam for example should go on it).

There are a variety of them who offer 120gb SSDs for around 130-160€.
That price is pretty ok for me. Now I am not sure which manufacturer to go for?
I have no idea whether I should go Intel (uuuh a brand name!) or Adata (who the fuck are they) or something else entirely!
Maybe you guys will even tell me not to get an SSD at all!

Anyway, I would be happy if you could help me!

Ego

I found in my area OCZ had the best priced sandforce-based SSDs. Can't complain a bit about mine. Corsair / Intel are solid too --they likewise use the sandforce controller.

You won't find me trying to talk you out of an SSD. Mine has proven to be one of my favourite computer upgrades of all times.

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Klyka

I do have a SATA3 board. I'll look into OCZ/Corsair!

Shogun

I have an OCZ Solid 3 which is a step down from the Agility. I absolutely love this thing. An SSD is seriously the most performance impacting thing you can get for your PC right now. Given hard drive prices at the moment I feel like people are insane not to pick them up. I'm seriously considering giving my current build away to rebuild with a 240GB Agility 3 and just not have a mechanical drive.

Klyka

Just ordered an Adata 120gb. I read a lot of reviews about it and basically every site gave it their recommendation in that price/size bracket.

Thanks for the help guys!

godmode

My roommate and I both bought Crucial because of the great reviews and great prices on Newegg.

Pariel

I picked up an Agility 3 (120GB) over the Black Friday weekend, could not be happier.

Klyka

Ok so now that I will have my SSD soon, are there any special tips?
Any recommendations for usage etc..?

I have Windows 7 64bit.

Darkwyndre

If you are going to run your OS on it, there are some things you need to do or the drive can die fast.

Klyka

I won't put my OS on it. Just games and some programs I use a lot.

MrDelish

Darkwyndre wrote:

If you are going to run your OS on it, there are some things you need to do or the drive can die fast.

what sort of things? I have my OS on my SSD

Trenog

MrDelish wrote:

Darkwyndre wrote:

If you are going to run your OS on it, there are some things you need to do or the drive can die fast.

what sort of things? I have my OS on my SSD

I have a Kingston SSDNow V+100 128GB solid state that I've been rocking as an OS/Steam Game drive for about a year now and it seems fine so far. I've done the things I've read about to try and maintain it's lifespan (remove sleep mode, remove recovery point use, no defrag, so search precache), although I'm not really sure about the lifespan of an SSD other than they are limited in the number of writes they do (and then they turn into read-only drives).

I've heard of people advising a small SSD for OS use but time has done well to improve the controllers and the pricepoints (I paid $250 at the time, they are $50 cheaper now at least) so that seems like a more viable solution these days, so I'm curious about what else could be done to help with the life of the SSD.

Synthesis

...out of curiosity, what kind of life spans are we talking about here? Assuming you were to take those precautions.

Donovan Puppyfucker

SSDs have a finite amount of read/writes. Seems to be in the tens of thousands with newer drives.

What that basically means is, after a while (depending on usage) you won't be able to write data to the drive anymore. You will still be able to read from it, though.