I find Anandtech has the best coverage of SSDs, it's much more detailed and in-depth than Tom's Hardware for SSDs.
The SDD articles are here: http://www.anandtech.com/tag/storage They have a handy benchmark too: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SSD/65 The SandForce SF-2000 series drives appear to be the clear benchmark winners at the moment, but they are expensive and you want to ensure you have SATA3 controller as they will easily saturate SATA2. Ben ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Wright Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 10:28 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question Personally I decided on the 256G. And I've got the same for 3 laptops now. I don't want to have to waste my time dealing with the possibility of running out of space. BTW, there are a number of 3rd gen SSDs out now, not just the Crucial M4, although they use newer technology which is apparently not as good (cheaper but not better performing). Some of the 2nd gen drives are pretty awesome if you can get them for a good price, such as the Crucial C300 (the only 2nd gen I would buy) I read the following forum on tom's hardware. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266789-32-foot-race-vertex3-intel-crucial And a comparison site written in French (no I can't read it but google translate is my friend. If you know of a better comparison, please post it as I'm interested) http://www.hardware.fr/articles/830-7/comparatif-ssd-2011-crucial-m4-ocz-vertex-3-intel-510-320.html T. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Siebert Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 10:22 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: SSD minimum size question I got a 120 GB SSD about 2 months ago (107 GB usable) and have been running with around 43 GB free space for most of that time. I'm careful to keep my documents and photos on another drive but I do have a frequently used XP VM on there occupying about 8 GB. If I did a cleanup I could probably get away with a 60 GB drive if I had to, but for a development machine I'd really want 120 GB. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Incidentally, Windows 7 SP1 now installs OK on his system. It's a pity that the installer didn't give an appropriate message, instead of just terminating with some unrelated or incomprehensible message. How hard is it to say "you're out of disk space, dude"? I wouldn't have thought a 60Gb SSD was too small, though. ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:18 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question We were looking for something like that, Joseph - I'll pass it on. Wading through the Power Settings didn't make that clear. (just found the same advice from Hanselman, too) ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia This email is intended for the named recipient only. The information it contains may be confidential or commercially sensitive. If you are not the intended recipient you must not reproduce or distribute any part of this email, disclose its contents to any other party, or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the message from your computer.
