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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
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I'm thinking about picking up one of the 120gb drives this weekend when I'm back in town. Any brands to avoid?? Also how is the installation? I have an ASUS gaming laptop and I'm pretty clueless when it comes to laptop hardware. Once its installed how should I set it up so the OS is on the SSD? Format and start fresh or can I move the OS from one drive to the other?
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Always format and start fresh
Installation is different on every laptop, but I've never had a laptop which was extremely hard to replace the disk.
As for brands, worry less about the brand and more about the controller. The Sandforce SF-1222 controller is the best consumer-level SSD controller today, with Intel's X-25 line matching it in read performance but falling behind in write performance.
If you can - I'd hold off on buying an SSD right now altogether. Sandforce's SF-2281 controller is about to start appearing on shelves and being benchmarked at over twice as fast as any current consumer level drive. Of course you probably don't have a motherboard that can read at 525MB/s, but they're apparently going to cost just slightly higher than equivalently-sized drives cost now, plus they'll push the price of SF-1222 drives down even lower.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/o...dforce-sf-228/
Intel's got the 510s coming out soon too, which should perform at about the same level for around the same price.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/04/i...inst-vertex-3/
In short - it's the worst time to buy an SSD since the prices first came down into reasonable levels.