Batwing~SPARTA~ Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Ok US users, this can be the option to switch to SSD at an affordable price. is not gonna last long and I need your GURU opinion about this. Kingston SSD 64GB v100 and Kingston SSD 128GB V100 Buy.com sale with huge mail in rebate: 64GB http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-64gb-ssdnow-v100-series-2-5-sata-ii-internal-solid-state-drive/218194457.html It s 64 bucks after rebate, free shipping .. I am thinking 2 of these on RAID 0 or 128GB http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-128gb-ssdnow-v100-series-2-5-sata-ii-internal-solid-state/218194454.html It s 128 bucks after rebate, free shipping - no need RAID for this, 1 should be enough. These are not SATA 3 monsters but are gonna be fast anyway and are sweet at that price. Here is a 128GB review: http://thessdreview.com/our-reviews/kingston-ssdnow-v100-128b-ssd-review/ It looks decent. Now is up to your comments, what do you think ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 I wouldn't buy anything below 128GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MH6~SPARTA~ Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 I wouldn't buy anything below 128GB I would also buy Intel or OCZ over Kingston, but that's just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter~SPARTA~ Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 I would not buy sata 2 neither. Old and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donziboy2 Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 (edited) Sata 2 is still fast enough for most things. Sata 2 has a theoretical limit of 375 MegaBytes per second. What makes SSD so nice is there timings not just there huge speeds. I would be happy to see 200+ gig ssd's that are 50 cents a gig and only 200mbps instead of $2 a gig and 500+ mbps. Kingston is a decent brand, they aren't as big as intel but they do make good products. Price per gig on that is very nice. The average game is what 3gigs in ram.... So you can load that in 30 seconds on a good hard drive. 15 seconds on that SSD. Or 10-5 seconds on a Sata 3 drive (and pay out the nose for that speed)..... I would rather wait the 5-10 seconds and save myself the $ difference between sata 3 and 2. In gaming you only spend a small amount of time loading compared to playing. As long as the drive can keep up with the micro requests from the game for files it wont be noticeable in the long run.... Edited September 30, 2011 by Donziboy2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batwing~SPARTA~ Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 I would not buy sata 2 neither. Old and slow. I do understand technology runs fast, but this is a bit of "extreme" comment, isn it ? SATA 2 SSD are still way faster than any other standar HDD out there. I ve never been an SSD fan because of the outrageous price / GB. being able to trade a bit of "super" speed for a sensitive difference in price, still makes a lot of sense to me and a ~ 250 transfer rate is not gonna be exactly obsolete in the next 10 minutes. About the 64GB choice, I am talking of 2 units in RAID 0 meaning Faster performances on total of 128GB anyway. I was wondering if any of you would consider a better idea getting a 128GB on RAID 0 than a single unit. It s a pure performance matter, the price it completely the same. As a rule of thumb I know a RAID 0 of x size is always faster than a single drive of the same x size, I was wondering if this applies to SSD as well. SATA 2 or SATA 3 also involves Motherboard adjustments. My crappy Asus P6T is almost 2 years old and is not SATA 3 compatible, cutting out that option. Any other suggestion welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batwing~SPARTA~ Posted October 15, 2011 Author Share Posted October 15, 2011 I screwed it.. wait too long and the deal is gone... I should have follow my guts and order the 128GB on the spot. That price was a stellar deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 $128 for 128GB SSD series II is very good.... Like I posted in other threads, even the slowest SSD, out preforms the best HDD. You don't need RAID with SSD, it's all more money.... Just backup like every good PC user should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donziboy2 Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 I just wish they would stop trying to make the damn things faster and try to make them cheaper ffs...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halli~SPARTA~ Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Batwing they will go back on sale as the Late fall and Holiday sales are around the corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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