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stormblast

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Planning to pickup a ssd. no budget for slc so will have to settle for mlc.

Options are

Intel X25-V 2.5" 40GB = 6500-7000

Solidata K6 64GB MLC High Performance = 9200

Solidata Europe Solidata K6 64GB MLC 2.5" SATA SSD Solidata

Solidata K6 64GB MLC High Performance

Wanted to know how are the solidata drives. any info about the k6 series would be helpfull. the chipset & the read/write speeds from actual users.

Strontium Swift 64GB = 9500

40gb should be sufficient for me as i dont play games. i just need it for installing w7 & some small softwares. But i was thinking if i can get the 64gigs for around 9k it wouldnt be that bad to get some extra gigs for 2-2.5k more.

How would the intel drive compare to the other 2 64gb drives i have mentioned.

What other choices do i have for 40-64gb. should be available locally, doesnt make sense to get it from the states as they almost cost the same now.
 
Stormie, could you not wait until the sandforce SF-1200 controller based SSDs land in India? I've been itching to jump into the SSD bandwagon and thought of investing in the Intel X25-M G2 (12.5k odd) but since Anandtech showed up a great difference in performance using the SF-1200 based SSDs and the Indilinx based ones, I decided to wait until the former shows up.
 
I have the Intel X-25V. In the real world scenario, its a difference of night and day. The system sure becomes more peppy.

But I'd suggest you to got for X25-M, if you have the budget. That one offers even better speeds (both read and write).

About the size, 40GB (37GB odd usable) is just enough. I am still left with like 17GB after Win 7 x64 installation, all the drivers, multimedia softwares (including full Adobe CS5 suit).
 
why not get a velociraptor, for general use its pretty close to a ssd and you get more space
 
Desecrator said:
Stormie, could you not wait until the sandforce SF-1200 controller based SSDs land in India? I've been itching to jump into the SSD bandwagon and thought of investing in the Intel X25-M G2 (12.5k odd) but since Anandtech showed up a great difference in performance using the SF-1200 based SSDs and the Indilinx based ones, I decided to wait until the former shows up.
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Is this what you are referring to?

AnandTech.com - OCZ's Vertex 2 Pro Preview: The Fastest MLC SSD We've Ever Tested

when are they arriving in india?

would the pricing be similar to the current indilinx controller based ssd?

also the benchmarks & write speeds aside, how much diff would i really notice between the current intel ssd & the newer sf-1200 when using windows etc.

Vasishta.Sushant said:
I have the Intel X-25V. In the real world scenario, its a difference of night and day. The system sure becomes more peppy.

But I'd suggest you to got for X25-M, if you have the budget. That one offers even better speeds (both read and write).

About the size, 40GB (37GB odd usable) is just enough. I am still left with like 17GB after Win 7 x64 installation, all the drivers, multimedia softwares (including full Adobe CS5 suit).
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So you mean to say there is a huge diff in the intel 40gb & the 80gb ssd?

As i already said. my windows 7 installation is below 20gigs after installing all drivers. The softwares i use would take up a total of around 5gigs more. I am still on photoshop cs2. I dont use any other adobe softwares from the suite.

bottle said:
why not get a velociraptor, for general use its pretty close to a ssd and you get more space
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Planning to stick to ssd cause if i am getting something much faster i may as well get those than the wd raptors. Dont require the space anyways, already have other hdd's for that. Will just be needing for windows & some small softwares.

If i dint jump on the raptor bandwagon in the past 4 years, i see no reason to switch to them now considering the ssd's are out. But thats just my opinion, not trying to offend anyone.

How are the solidata ssd. I asked prime & it carries a warranty of 2years.

Model = Solidata k6me (mainstream edition) 64gb

Box says 210mb read / 120mb write / 64mb cache.

Afaik it is indilinx controller. How is this performance compared to the intel 40gb ssd & to the intel 80gb ssd.

Here is a link with some scores. anyone with intel40gb & 80gb lemme know how these scores are compared to it.

http://www.solidata.hk/en/onlineshopitems/k6.htm
 
stormblast said:
Is this what you are referring to?

AnandTech.com - OCZ's Vertex 2 Pro Preview: The Fastest MLC SSD We've Ever Tested

when are they arriving in india?

would the pricing be similar to the current indilinx controller based ssd?

also the benchmarks & write speeds aside, how much diff would i really notice between the current intel ssd & the newer sf-1200 when using windows etc.
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Yesh! :gap:

But the one Anand reviewed has a SF-1200 controller with the firmware of the SF-1500 as he clearly mentions it in the review.

No clue as to when they might arrive in India. And when it would, it is got to be expensive. Maybe about 2~3k more than the Indilinx based ones.

As for the last query, honestly not much. It appears bottle and Vasishta.Sushant did not notice *much* of a performance upgrade after both of them switched to SSDs. In fact bottle has one of the fastest SLC SSDs on the planet and if this opinion was to come from him, I'd say grab the Intel X25-M G2 from Prime. You are willing to spend 9k anyway - put an additional 3.5k and get that instead.

In all probability by July~August, if the Sandforce based SSDs don't show up in our country, I'd gladly go with the Intel G2. I'd be switching to the i7 architecture along with this upgrade.

Never heard of Solidata before.
 
As he said above... synth benchmark performance is out of the world but real life there wasnt too much differnce.. i'd say regular hdd or even regular raptor compared to ssd there would be a huge boost but velociraptor compared to ssd the difference was quite close for normal use
 
stormblast said:
So you mean to say there is a huge diff in the intel 40gb & the 80gb ssd?

As i already said. my windows 7 installation is below 20gigs after installing all drivers. The softwares i use would take up a total of around 5gigs more. I am still on photoshop cs2. I dont use any other adobe softwares from the suite.
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Reading speed differences are not that big but the write speeds are definitely worth spending for, in the X-25 M. My write speeds still hover around 40MB/s. and that may be a concern to few folks (not that it hurts in real world usage, just the figures do not look as good :P)
 
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I'd say grab the Intel X25-M G2 from Prime. You are willing to spend 9k anyway - put an additional 3.5k and get that instead.

In all probability by July~August, if the Sandforce based SSDs don't show up in our country, I'd gladly go with the Intel G2. I'd be switching to the i7 architecture along with this upgrade.

Never heard of Solidata before.
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I wouldnt mind spending 3.5k more compared to solidata, but what really is the use to spend so much and keep 40gb free all the time? as i have already mentioned even a 40gb ssd would have some free space left for me. 80gb will really be an overkill. how is the solidata 64gb read & write performance compared to the intel 80gb? is it really very slow compared to the intel?

lastly why are you switching to the i7 when the x6 is already available for much less. trust me on this & go for amd.
 
@Desecrator

I did notice tremendous differences. Not as much in the boot time, as hyped on the youtube :P but after you get into the windows. CS5 loads in less than 3 secs. Previously on my WD Blue it would take like 15 sec. Everything now is one click (plus one wink of eye) fast now.

Again, Stormy, more than the MAX Read/Write figures, the number of IOPS matter with the SSDs, if you are looking at performance. The intel still leads the scene. Do consider that as well.
 
stormblast said:
I wouldnt mind spending 3.5k more compared to solidata, but what really is the use to spend so much and keep 40gb free all the time? as i have already mentioned even a 40gb ssd would have some free space left for me. 80gb will really be an overkill. how is the solidata 64gb read & write performance compared to the intel 80gb? is it really very slow compared to the intel?
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As for Solidata drives, I have only seen them being advertised by Amarbir on his site earlier. Not sure what controller the drive uses. Neither has this SSD nor the others from Solidata been reviewed by Anand. By now, you do probably know that Anand reviews every other SSD available in the market. :P

I did a quick Google search on Solidata drives and found out that the reception is fairly okay'ish and most of the reviews seem to suggest better alternatives. Better get the X-25 V or the X-25 M G2 if you would utilise the additional space in the 80GB drive.

More space is always good. :P

stormblast said:
lastly why are you switching to the i7 when the x6 is already available for much less. trust me on this & go for amd.
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OT - Been reading on the Thuban processors offlately. The reason I wanted to go with the i7 architecture is that both the processors loses to the overclocked i7 930 in terms of frames in most games. Although I admit the difference isn't all that large, i7 still has the edge over a processor that uses a pretty old architecture (read K10). The only plus being that the 890FX based motherboards are very cheap.
 
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Been reading on the Thuban processors offlately. The reason I wanted to go with the i7 architecture is that both the processors loses to the overclocked i7 930 in terms of frames in most games. Although I admit the difference isn't all that large, i7 still has the edge over a processor that uses a pretty old architecture (read K10). The only plus being that the 890FX based motherboards are very cheap.
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OT - the only reason that some games are performing better on the i7 is because they are probably not utilizing the multithreading properly. if you see any app that uses raw cpu power like cinebench, the scores of x6 at the same clock is 1-3% faster than the i7 930. i have both here in office & have already compared.
 
^Thanks for the inputs stormy. Would definitely consider it. :)

Thankfully I do not carry work back home so I need not worry about CPU intensive applications. Opening so many viewports on our application and loading the model generally consumes a lot of CPU power.
 
well since the sandisk 1200 controllers seem to be very good. I am thinking to order via kmd.

how are these.

suggested by udit
Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTX50G 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
costing around 11k via kmd

other 2 options.
Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex LE (Limited Edition) OCZSSD2-1VTXLE50G 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
around 10.5k via kmd

Newegg.com - OCZ Agility 2 OCZSSD2-2AGT50G 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
around 10k via kmd

how are the ocz agility2? numbers do seem good & afaik all these 3 are using the new sandforce 1200 controller.

I am unable to find corsair force ssd which are also based on the sandforce1200 controller on newegg or amazon. let me know if any of u can find these.

Also are crucial c300 drives available 50-60gb at similar price to the above drives? the numbers of these drives are also very good.
 
Stormy, I suggest you do not go the KMD way since it would turn out to be expensive. Just order the Vertex 2 from Amazon and pay using an indian CC. They will ship you the product in a postcard sized box - no customs levied. Can guarantee you that. :)

Should anything go wrong later, just ship it to OCZ Taiwan using Speedpost/Registered mail using भारतीय डाक. Very cheap. I recently shipped a pair of G.Skill modules to Taiwan at Rs. 183. :P
 
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Stormy, I suggest you do not go the KMD way since it would turn out to be expensive. Just order the Vertex 2 from Amazon and pay using an indian CC. They will ship you the product in a postcard sized box - no customs levied. Can guarantee you that. :)

Should anything go wrong later, just ship it to OCZ Taiwan using Speedpost/Registered mail using भारतीय डाक. Very cheap. I recently shipped a pair of G.Skill modules to Taiwan at Rs. 183. :P
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203$ on amazon, they would atleast charge 10$ shipping to india? tax would work out to atleast 10-15$ more? Chances of damages are more.

203 + 10 + 12 = 225 x 47 = 10575. Just 400rs more to get through kmd. Guaranteed delivery to my house & no hassles of damage or customs or being overcharged. Dont tell me its not worth it.
 
stormblast said:
Dont tell me its not worth it.
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Oh then that pricing seems okay'ish. :P

I ordered a pair of cans from Amazon. It was priced at 89USD with free shipping. KMD it appears charged close to 5.6k'ish. Whereas I paid my friend 4000 bucks at 45 Rs. against a dollar.

You may go ahead with the Vertex 2 IMO. :)
 
WOW !! This is great people. This force series comes with the 3.0.1 firmwire which actually enables the SF-1500 capabilities on the SF-1200s ( according to Anand ). Plus the pricing makes it icing on the cake. :P
 
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