32 replies to this topic

[scaramonga]

Thinking of grabbing one of THESE

Been getting good reviews, one HERE

Thoughts gentlemen, please?

[stormrosson]

I say go for it, I have 8 x 30 GB Patriot warp II's in raid 0 in my desktop and a Vertex II 60 GB in my lappy and I am lovin all of em, muy quick homey

Edited by stormrosson, 01 August 2009 - 12:32 AM.

[m.oreilly]

the ocz agility 120 gig would be better, price per performance, and their support is second to none. now that i think about it, the ocz period, because of the support/constant updates to keep you with the newest advancements. intel have no support, i don't hear anything about it, but i know gskill users hang out at the ocz forums. and, once again,there will be a new FW coming out for the ocz indilinx drives fairly soon, so i would really go ocz

[m.oreilly]

oh, there is a new vertex, that is "overclocked' and has hand picked matching nand. it's called the "turbo", and is now at the regular vertex price. which makes it a shoe-in for purchase. the vertex/agility/falcon use the indilinx arm controller, so they can be OC'ed...if you have the tools...

[m.oreilly]

rik, the latest ocz FW has enhanced my drives to the point that they are faster now, many months after continually installing/deleting on, than they were with the earlier FW. and this is in raid, where you can't use the "refresh" tools. it's freaky, but true.

[scaramonga]

This one mo? --> OCZ

A little bit more expensive though

[scaramonga]

Then again, I'd be cheaper buying 2 30's and shoving them in RAID 0 ----> OCZ

[m.oreilly]

scaramonga, on Jul 31 2009, 06:24 PM, said:

Then again, I'd be cheaper buying 2 30's and shoving them in RAID 0 ----> OCZ

the small agility are much slower though. it looks like the turbo will soon be replacing the regular vertex, so you might want to see if you can find a deal on two 30gig turbo for raid (here they are the same, or just a few penny more than the regular vertex. they are dropping prices because of intel's price cuts).

[scaramonga]

Looks tempting

[m.oreilly]

scaramonga, on Aug 1 2009, 04:00 PM, said:

Looks tempting

it's a safe bet too. new FW is being tested, and from the looks it will have much more of a self maintainence setup, you might not even need trim to refresh it after heavy usage. if i hadn't purchased my vertex recently, i would jump on these. the "custom" tuned aspect of them is kinda neat too.

[stormrosson]

oh yeah those look saweeeeet !!!

[scaramonga]

OK, ordered two of THESE lol, should be here tomorrow.

I get the feeling I'm gonna regret this

[m.oreilly]

you will, you will hate what you did and regret it for the rest of your life...

nah, just j/k. but really, as soon as you install on them, disable defrag, asap. if you don't, you will regret it lol

[scaramonga]

Hmm..........not what I was expecting. The system actually feels more responsive than this score suggests, I was expecting to break into the 7.0 barrier - I've went from 6.1 to 6.7. I haven't installed any Intel drivers or the Matrix Storage utility, should I?

Dunno what fuckin FW is on this thing either?

Install of Win7 RTM Ultimate took 9 mins, which was cool though.



Disabled the usual:

Prefetch
Superfetch
Defrag
Pagefile (but have on RAID drives)

[stormrosson]

yeah Rik I think I remember readin somepin bout the intel/matrix drivers were the schnizzle......I think......and u know I ain't no #@(*^ fanboy I'm actually bein serious this time home boy ...also go to C: / properties and turn off all drive/file indexing and in services disable windows search.....don't worry it doesn't seem to affect the actual searce function

Edited by stormrosson, 23 August 2009 - 02:20 AM.