If you aren't a fan of reading a wall of text, I am looking for your help in deciding a 120GB SSD to purchase. $160 max.
I have not made any changes to my sig rig in the last two years at all. I do not have any plans to upgrade any other parts of the system atm and have $160 budget max for an upgrade. I am debating on whether to go with a new SSD or a corsair H100 to OC my good ol' 875k to over 4Ghz to get the most out of it. But its one or the other, not both.
I was eager to future proof my system back when I got it and opted for an affordable and fast at the time SSD. Currently have an original OCZ Vertex Turbo 30GB SATA II ssd...I am down to 5.5GB of space left, and I am fine with that. Currently all that is on the drive is the OS, Office Suite, iTunes and a few small programs, no games at all. Everything else windows sees is routed to the 1 TB black and it is fast enough for my needs as is honestly.
Boot times are around 30 sec from cold start to desktop and sleep to browsing is less than 5-10 seconds.
However, concerns are as follows:
Space! I have only got 5GB left on the drive and that is of concern.
Life span: I am not sure, but SSD life is reading things wrong with the drive. The reasoning behind this is an error with the firmware ver. 1.6 (newest is 1.7) on the drive. I have not gone to 1.7 as it requires clean wipe of the drive and a re-install of windows and all else. That is too much of a pain for little/no gain.
My Chipset is also not the greatest for SATA III. With my P7P55D-E mobo, I have two SATA III ports, by Marvel as the P55 Ibex Peak chipset has no native SATA 6G support at all.
I am currently looking for a SATA III drive regardless of this chipset. I have come up with this as my real option of choice due to price.
Mushkin Chronos 120 GB
OCZ Agility 120GB
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
Or if I am adventurous: OCZ Vertex 4 I kinda like this option due to the new controller and its stability with compressible and impcompressible data. But my knowledge here is lacking.
My question to you is WHAT SHOULD I GET?
I will likely have issues with windows installing again as I only have the upgrade media for windows 7 ultimate x64. I might have to use acronis backup to transfer an image of the system to my new SSD. Will this cause issues?
Edited by SOCOM_HERO - 5/6/12 at 10:56pm
I have not made any changes to my sig rig in the last two years at all. I do not have any plans to upgrade any other parts of the system atm and have $160 budget max for an upgrade. I am debating on whether to go with a new SSD or a corsair H100 to OC my good ol' 875k to over 4Ghz to get the most out of it. But its one or the other, not both.
I was eager to future proof my system back when I got it and opted for an affordable and fast at the time SSD. Currently have an original OCZ Vertex Turbo 30GB SATA II ssd...I am down to 5.5GB of space left, and I am fine with that. Currently all that is on the drive is the OS, Office Suite, iTunes and a few small programs, no games at all. Everything else windows sees is routed to the 1 TB black and it is fast enough for my needs as is honestly.
Boot times are around 30 sec from cold start to desktop and sleep to browsing is less than 5-10 seconds.
However, concerns are as follows:
Space! I have only got 5GB left on the drive and that is of concern.
Life span: I am not sure, but SSD life is reading things wrong with the drive. The reasoning behind this is an error with the firmware ver. 1.6 (newest is 1.7) on the drive. I have not gone to 1.7 as it requires clean wipe of the drive and a re-install of windows and all else. That is too much of a pain for little/no gain.
My Chipset is also not the greatest for SATA III. With my P7P55D-E mobo, I have two SATA III ports, by Marvel as the P55 Ibex Peak chipset has no native SATA 6G support at all.
I am currently looking for a SATA III drive regardless of this chipset. I have come up with this as my real option of choice due to price.
Mushkin Chronos 120 GB
OCZ Agility 120GB
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
Or if I am adventurous: OCZ Vertex 4 I kinda like this option due to the new controller and its stability with compressible and impcompressible data. But my knowledge here is lacking.
My question to you is WHAT SHOULD I GET?
I will likely have issues with windows installing again as I only have the upgrade media for windows 7 ultimate x64. I might have to use acronis backup to transfer an image of the system to my new SSD. Will this cause issues?
Edited by SOCOM_HERO - 5/6/12 at 10:56pm
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