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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
MIR are never considered in price match. Just the listed price. So Memex would be $189.99 with the instant savings. So pricematch that with Newegg's 179.99. Then do the MIR after that.
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Product...30739(ME).aspx
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Product...31265(ME).aspx
One other issue is that MemEx has the E series and the non E series Vertex II for $159.99. I'm not sure what you can tell from that but one of them may be 25nm and one may be 34nm process. The 25nm ones are regarded as worse IIRC. They will also give you less formatted capacity despite the name of both being 120GB.
115 GB = 107 GiB = 25 nm NAND. 120 GB = 111 GiB = 34 nm NAND
Also, OCZ seems to have a bad rap in terms of reliability of their SSDs or instability but I don't have any personal experience with them. People might just like to badmouth them on forums. The Newegg review for the E series has a lot of people complaining about failed drives though. |
Yeah I saw a lot of that. I went to the OCZ forums and they are offering a program to people to send their smaller capacity drives in to get the correct 111 GiB capacity.
Based on all the reviews and personal comments on NCIX, NewEgg, MemEx, it seems like it's a real crapshoot when it comes to SSD and makes me wonder if it's even worth it. It seems everyone has problems with them and they just stop working or don't perform at the advertised speed. The reason I liked the OCZ was it was a nice size at a pretty good price and fit within my budget. Seeing all of these issues makes me wonder if it's worth it to just go with a mechanical drive and save myself all the hassle.
I guess I've got four options:
1. Stick with gettings a big SSD. Would you recommend something other than OCZ that's around 120GB and in the ~$160-180 range?
2. Get a smaller (40-60GB) SSD from Intel, as I assume they are far more reliable, that I would just use for the OS and primary applications (i.e. no games) and get a large mechanical drive.
3. Get a smaller (40-60GB) SSD from Intel and use that SSD caching feature that comes with the Z68 chipset.
4. Buy a couple of mechanical SATA3 drives and RAID 0 them (not sure if the Gigabyte board supports RAID)
5. Buy a large harddrive and just wait till SSD become more "solid"
If I do buy an SSD after the fact as use it for caching do I need to re-install the OS and everything? I know I'd have to do that if I decide to move the OS on that drive.