[Adam951]

Like To Here Peoples Views On These Drives,

i see they have started to get bigger in size, OCZ making a 128 Gb sata internal version, are they really worth the money?

[Joshuashawharvey]

You can now get 250GB ones, but the prices on them are ridiculous.

I think they're well worth buying, but i'd prefer to wait for them to mature, so that read/write cycles can increase, capacities get higher, more availability and price drops

[Adam951]

Thats the problem the Ocz 128Gb is Around £290, Certainly Considering It For x4 Build unless people convince me otherwise!

wow the 250Gb is expensive!!!

Originally Posted by Daveskater

Adam951, please use the edit button if it has been less than 24 hours since your last post. Thanks.

Have the reliability issues with these drives been sorted out yet?

As far as i can see reliabilty is pretty good the only problem with these drives is as nice as the silent function of them is, the read/write speeds are not up to much, perhaps a small sacrifice to pay for a silent pc?

As from next week i shall be using a hi-fi media style case, so want it nice and quiet! but can i afford the performance cut? il never know unless i try one of these drives!

Originally Posted by Rik

I personally will wait until more people have tested these devices before taking the plunge.

As an example, a friend of mine got a sata1 drive the moment they came out. It only worked for a few weeks before frying. He had a lot of sensive data on that drive and so did not send it back for repair or replacement. That was a lot of money down the drain.

Actually yea i had the exact same problem, perhaps your right!

[Daveskater]

Adam951, please use the edit button if it has been less than 24 hours since your last post. Thanks.

Have the reliability issues with these drives been sorted out yet?

[Rik]

I personally will wait until more people have tested these devices before taking the plunge.

As an example, a friend of mine got a sata1 drive the moment they came out. It only worked for a few weeks before frying. He had a lot of sensive data on that drive and so did not send it back for repair or replacement. That was a lot of money down the drain.

[HaiDan]

I've had a OCZ 60g Apex SSD for about three weeks or so, and to be honest, it's not what I expected. It's for sure quiet, and if nothing else, that's a big plus for me, but for what it cost, quiet alone does not cut it for me.

After reading all the reviews at NewEgg and other places about 10 second booting and all the other benchmarks that rave about SSD's, I'm very disappointed. Granted, it does boot a little faster, but that may be because I'm running Windows 7, 7068. And I'll admit that it seems to load games faster, namely HAWX, but again, that may be Win 7, just not sure, and I don't feel like going back to Vista or XP just to find out.

I think that for OCZ SSD's, the Vertex line is probably a lot faster, but of course more expensive. But I'm still not convinced that these drives are worth what they cost. I think the price WILL come down soon, as the one I bought at NewEgg has dropped $20 since I bought it, and I could now get the Vertex for the price I paid for a Apex.

After a lot of reading on the OCZ SSD forum, I saw a comment that you need a motherboard not over six months old in order to take full advantage of these drives. This is a big minus in my opinion since all of us cannot afford to upgrade our whole system every six months. My mobo is not that old and I feel anything coming out should be compatible, or I should say fully capable, for computers older than six months.

Anyway, I guess all this leads to my opinion, that SSD's are not worth the cost now. I wish I had gotten a 10,000rpm VelociRapter.

[HaiDan]

I don't suppose anybody's reading this, but here is a followup to my above post.

I finally decided that I've had enough of my SSD for a boot drive, got tired of the stuttering, slow write speed, and sure can't afford more of these things for a Raid array. So, I purchased two WD Caviar Black 500g drives and made a Raid 0 array. To me it seems much more snappy than the SSD. The reads are not as fast, but the writes are way faster, and all this to me kind of averages out to be more satisfying than the SSD. A good bit cheaper to, no actually a LOT cheaper, and a whole lot more space. To add to this, I can't believe how much faster it is than a single spindle drive.

Although I had no knowledge of Raid before this project, I've found it very enlightening after doing a lot of Googling. The Caviar Black drives are supposed to be fast anyway, but two of them are really fast. I might even get another one. From what I've read, over three of these drives in a Raid 0, might even be slower, taking more time to read multiple drives. If anybody has any experience with that option, (four drives), I would appreciate sharing.

One other thing I've learned because of the SSD. After reading all the things that need changing to optimize the SSD in OCZ forums, I've found out how much smaller you can make your Windows installation just by getting rid of the hybernation files, if you don't use this feature, it might be somthing to look at if you are short on space.

I realize the more drives that I have in Raid 0, the more chance of data loss I have, but I back up regularly to another drive what's important, so I'm not really worried about that. I'm still using the SSD, but just as any other drive, nothing special.

[Blackmirror]

I am reading it

[Daveskater]

As am I.

I'm not posting a whole lot but do read threads that look half worth reading.

[Sup2a]

Very interesting, ive heard a lot about these SSD drives how they are "so much better" but certainly wasn't considering buying one especially in AUS they have barely arrived. Dont think i will be buying one in the near future either after reading this, I'd much rather the large storage space rather than a fast drive that doesn't really seem to be much faster

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by Daveskater

As am I.

I'm not posting a whole lot but do read threads that look half worth reading.

Thats very noble of you

[Flower123]

As an example, a friend of mine got a sata1 drive the moment they came out. It only worked for a few weeks before frying. He had a lot of sensive data on that drive and so did not send it back for repair or replacement. That was a lot of money down the drain.