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Xplorer4

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14. March 2012 @ 22:06

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I am looking to pick up an SSD or two in the 60-80GB range. I might just get 1 for now and RAID0 it with my Intel X25MG2 for now until I have the funds for the second matching drive to do a proper software RAID0 through the mobo. I haven't really kept up on ssd reviews and wondered what brands are the best now? I see OCZ is really popular but I just havent been able to bring myself to trust anything OCZ. There stuff has always seemed to cheap to be good.

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mrslicker

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15. March 2012 @ 05:29

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I've used two SSD's from OCZ and they work fine. IOPS (higher is better) and read/write speed (sequential and random) are important. The vertex series (whatever is fresh) seems to be a good price performance ratio, in my opinion. I really cannot comment on other brands though, i dont know enough about them.

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smoggie66

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15. March 2012 @ 10:56

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if your going to use raid the crucial m4 is the best option, i have a cosair force 3 and get 120 gb and get 7.9 in windows rating.

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Xplorer4

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15. March 2012 @ 11:39

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Originally posted by smoggie66:
if your going to use raid the crucial m4 is the best option, i have a cosair force 3 and get 120 gb and get 7.9 in windows rating.

Care to elaborate about the crucial m4? Also I dont care much for windows ratings. The results seem a bit skewed. I had 2x Intel X25Ms like my sig says but the sata port broke on one. If memorey serves me right, I got a 7.9 as well.

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smoggie66

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15. March 2012 @ 13:26

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the m4 is more reliable in raid because it dosent use sanforce drivers ive read a lot of forums where people getting bsods and freezing in raid whith corsair & ocz drive , but dont get me wrong the ocz and corsair maybe faster but reliability is what is needed in raid. check this out http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/storage/3...-review/?page=3

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