Originally posted by sammorris:

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You wouldn't want the Onyx, I believe it's cacheless like the early SSDs, it will make using any system it runs in an absolute chore.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I'd want to see the G2 X25-M go up against the Vertex 2. It would still lose I'm sure, but it'd be a bit closer. You have to bear in mind that the X25-M G1 existed before almost any of us knew what SSDS were, it's ancient.
Note how far behind the other SSDs are too. In the face of Sandforce and Intel controllers, all other SSDs are pretty much useless at random performance. Better than mechanical drives by factors of several, but not hundreds.

Also note the velociraptor is 3 times as fast as the original OCZ cacheless SSD. The Apex was the high-end part too, let alone the basic Core/Solid models.

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Originally posted by Dee:

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Take the original OCZ Vertex and Intel X25-M for example, they are both quite different in how they perform, the Intel drive having strong 4K random write performance and very limited sequential writing performance, whereas the original OCZ Vertex had modest 4k write performance and strong sequential writing performance. Yet put these two drives side by side in the real world, with real users and applications, and it become almost impossible to tell these drives apart in terms of speed.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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The G1, is what they tested. The G2 is a newer, improved version. It would still never match the Vertex 2, but the OCZ is £152 for 50GB and the Intel is £166 for 80GB, so that makes the OCZ pretty pricey. I have to say though, in terms of loading speed, I'm using a 7200rpm drive right now, not even a 10k, and compared to my old 37GB Raptor, the WD1001FALS is just as fast, and makes half the noise, plus it's nearly 30 times as big! Having a huge drive as your OS has its disadvantages, as you're always going to put stuff on it you'll need to move off it should you need to reformat, but for the price I paid, and what it does, it still makes even the best value SSDs look horrendously expensive. So many things need upgrading before an SSD, it just isn't going to get done in the near future for me. The first SSD I'm likely to buy will be for my silent machine, not for performance in my gaming system.

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/125?vs=152

shows the G2 loosing to the vertex2 in all but 1 test they did.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Yeah, the result of the G2 vs the Vertex 2 is unsurprising. The X25-M G2 is still a pretty old-fashioned design. I'm hoping Intel will revamp it by the time I happen on a high-end SSD. Not that I have anything against OCZ SSDs, but as it stands at the moment, the Vertex 2 is pretty pricey.
Russ: A bit of a bleak way of putting it, is there any reason for that?

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Wow, very sorry to hear that. Glad you're relatively upbeat about it though, can't imagine anything worse than spending the last moments of your life unhappy. Will be a sad day though to see you go, I know we've had plenty of arguments, but you are by far the longest standing aD member I've had regular contact with, I'm pretty sure you and I were conversing in threads back in my first few months at aD in 2004. That seems a long long time ago now!

It would be nice if someone you knew could post here on your behalf with what happens later on. If you were to disappear from the forums, we could only speculate, perhaps wrongly, which I'm sure you wouldn't want!

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