What do i want for christmas?

[justaguywithagun]

so, i'd like an SSD for xmas but i dont know which one. theres a crazy multitude of choices.
its gonna be used for OS and a few games, so i was thinking maybe 60-80gb?
price limit: $175ish, willing to bend a bit if its worth it.

ideas? i only buy from newegg, fyi. ideas please!

 

[foscooter]

OCZ Vertex 2 60GB, or OCZ Agility 2 60GB.

Check out MicroCenter or Newegg.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Crucial C300, GSkill Phoenix Pro or OCZ Vertex 2 are all close to equal with the C300 being just a bit the fastest. I would spend the extra $$ on a 120GB model. Mine has Windows, Office and other programs and the games I am playing now and I only have about 25GB free.

 

[justaguywithagun]

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[justaguywithagun]

hey um, one last thing.. will an SSD even work on winXP SP4 32bit?

 

[randomizer]

It will but you will not have support for TRIM, and you will need to manually align the partitions to account for the different geometry to HDDs (or partition it using a Vista/Win 7 install disc).

 

[stevex033]

ya too bad that Crucial C300 has about the slowest write speed of any SSD I have ever seen.

 

[randomizer]

It's worth noting that a C300 without TRIM is a bad idea too. Most SSDs don't need it because they are capable of restoring performance slowly when idle, but the C300 is very poor at this. I would not use a C300 on anything but Windows 7 or Linux (and OSX if it supports TRIM).

 

[Mousemonkey]

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