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Hello!
I need quick help on what SSD I should buy.
Here are the 3 I have in mind:

-OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5IN SATA3 6Gbps Sandforce SF-2281
http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=59354&vpn=VTX3-25SAT3-120G&manufacture=OCZ%20Technology&promoid=1190

-Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SSD SATA3 Solid State Disk 555MB/S Read SandForce SF-2200
http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=62088&vpn=CSSD-F120GBGT-BK&manufacture=Corsair

-Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB 2.5IN SATA3 Sandforce SF-2281 SSD Solid State Disk Flash Drive
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=62875&vpn=MKNSSDCR120GB-DX&manufacture=Mushkin%20Enhanced

Thanks So Much!!
-SnowFalls
 
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2 out of 4 OCZ sandforce drives i've bought failed. maybe it was just OCZ, but i'm staying away from sandforce all together for now.
since then i've only bought m4's and i'm much more satisfied with them.

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2 out of 4 OCZ sandforce drives i've bought failed. maybe it was just OCZ, but i'm staying away from sandforce all together for now.
since then i've only bought m4's and i'm much more satisfied with them.
 
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one of the OCZ drives i bought was the 50G vertex2. it's advertised as having max read/write of up to 285/275MB/s. when i clocked it myself i was only getting about 50MB/s both ways. i sent OCZ tech support an email about my findings, wondering if i had a dud. they said 2 things: 1) key words: "up to", they have no guarantee i'd get even remotely close to 285/275 because "up to 285" means anything less than 285 is as advertised speeds, and 50<285 (sneaky, eh?), and 2) they use ATTO for their benchmarks. the problem with ATTO is it sends a compressible stream (just zeroes, not random ones and zeroes that emulate real world data). ATTO is NOT meant to benchmark SSDs, but it seems OCZ uses it anyways because it's results erroneously inflate their drives' speeds.

use AS SSD benchmark, it is meant for benchmarking SSDs.
under AS SSD my 50G OCZ vertex2 gets about 50MB/s both ways, but my 64G crucial m4 gets 240MB/s read and 90MB/s write. (edit: this is on a sata2 port which is hindering read speeds here, on a sata3 port you'd likely see speeds much closer to it's advertised 415)
i haven't imaged one SSD onto another in order to do a direct comparison to see which one boots up an identical computer faster, but i suspect if you had a stopwatch you'd see the m4 beat the OCZ by a few seconds, not enough to be noticable.

either way, ANY SSD, even a 'slow' one, is going to be very noticably faster than ANY HDD, even as fast one.

 
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