The Vertex is a nice drive. We have 45 of them deployed at work, and they're very fast. I've become somewhat concerned with their reliability though...I've had several of them either die or become quirky. I typically am not one to judge drives based on such a tiny sample size, but SSDs are supposed to be much more reliable than magnetic drives...and I haven't experienced that.
For what it's worth, I only buy Intel G2 SSDs now--including for my personal systems. They have faster sequential read performance, and much faster random write performance, but lower sequential write performance (which frankly doesn't much matter). Most real world tests put them ahead of the Vertex. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:33 PM > To: hwg > Subject: [H] SSD recommendations? > > I'm about to pull the trigger on an SSD for my laptop and wanted to > know > what people thought so far. It's going in a Lenovo x200t that I really > love. > > I'm thinking of going with the OCZ Vertex 120GB: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227395 > > But I am considering the 60GB version of the same drive. My only > hesitation > is that AFAIK I only have one internal drive bay so I would need to > keep my > entire Win 7 install to below 60 GB. That's fine as long as I give up > carrying my music collection with me. > > --------------------------- > Brian Weeden > Technical Advisor > Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> > +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada > +1 (202) 683-8534 US
