Budget $150 because I'm tight. I need 100+ gb of space, looking at one of these (in stock umart 8mile plains), help.

Intel 520S 120G Series, SATA III 6Gb/s $149
OCZ 128G Vertex 4 Series SSD $139
SanDisk Extreme SSD 120G - SATA3/MLC/SF-2281/3Yrs $129
Crucial RealSSD C400 128G SATA3 M4 Series $149

I just got an Intel 520S 120gb for the speed and the warranty, but i can't comment on the performance as I have not yet installed it. Also $149 is a good price, mine was $175 from PCCG ($159 as of this post, price falling fast it seems).

Crucial M4 256 gig for $201 click here :D

Intel 520S 240G Series here, nice an fast.

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Hates my Marvel 91xx SATA 6G controller tho :(

i have a vertex 4 good drive but if you have a marvell controller you will never get max speed.

Intel. Why do people keep asking?

m4 here, no complaints

Get an OCZ Synapse.
Near SSD performance on a shitty 2TB green drive

Like all OCZ SSD products (cache, standard or otherwise), good specs on paper but terribly buggy. Have a read of the reviews here and here. Some common and recurring problems with that series. Head over to the Vertex 3 series and you'll see a range of different problems that plague that series. Rewind back to the Vertex 2 and holy shit. Bottom line is OCZ has no fucking clue what they're doing with their SSD products, and they never have.

Summary: Bros don't let bros buy OCZ or Corsair SSDs.

Get an Intel or Crucial if you remotely value your data, your time, and/or your money.

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i dunno about the new ocz's but firmware updates have fixed up the older drives (if they needed to be fixed, my ocz has been fast and stable since i got it)

i dunno about the new ocz's but firmware updates have fixed up the older drives (if they needed to be fixed, my ocz has been fast and stable since i got it)

Not for the issues i've described for the vertex4, but the vertex3 is ok now, we've got a few of them around and since 2.2x something they're ok.

The vertex4 had a revision for 1.4 then 1.41 then 1.5x something but none of them solve any of the failure to boot, or resume from suspend (bluescreens) on some motherboards. So lots of laptops don't work so good with them, which is where I think they excel.

+1 for an M4.

i'd go intel

as for those going "insert brand here" no complaints, I have a vertex 2, and I've had no complaints either

thanks for the link eorl, might have to go down on wednesday and pick some up myself

I miss the days when users came here for decent hardware advice.

Carry on people..

OCZ are great from Vertex 3 onwards, the series 2 are no good.

I've been trying to decide between the Intel 330 120GB and the Samsung 128GB drive. Apparently they're both pretty reliable and cheapish.

OCZ are great from Vertex 3 onwards, the series 2 are no good.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?100893-Vertex-4-does-not-boot-when-starting-Sony-Vaio-F-for-the-first-time-Have-to-ctrl-alt-delete

Now my Windows Experience Index score is 8.1 across the board instead of poor, little 5.9 because of wd black.

Doesn't it max out at 7.9? Mine says 7.9 is the highest the scale goes up to.

Also, as far as OCZ goes, I wouldn't be buying another OCZ drive. My Vertex 3 was fucked for the first few months I had it, every couple of days it would spontaneously disappear from Windows and Windows would blue screen. OCZ eventually got a firmware upgrade out that fixed it, and once I upgraded with that firmware I haven't had a problem since, but it still didn't give me a whole lot of faith in them.

Compare that to the Crucial M4 I have which has been absolutely perfect since the day I bought it and never skipped a beat.

yep 9.9 in Windows 8, will be good if it is tied up to the app store.

No, just saying it jumped nicely using a relative measurement that everyone that has windows installed has instant access to?