Hey guys (& gals),

I've been looking for a SSD to replace my boot partition on my old school cheap WD Green for Windows 7 64 bit.

Is OCZ & Corsair not worth it? Right now, I'm thinking of Intel 320 Series 120GB @ RM 599 and yeah, my budget is around this price range.

Will be glad if anyone of you got any opinion on this or feedback.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by josephting: Dec 27 2011, 02:48 PM

Thanks for the feedback. I actually did read this particular review by Anand before.
However, there's a lot of OCZ bad reviews going on regarding BSODs and reliability issues?
I want to avoid that and go for usability than pure "performance".

Very well then. I also saw Intel's SSD roadmap and there isn't anything big going on until Q3'2011.
Therefore, I'm thinking of going for Intel 320 Series now.
It's from Viewnet in Plaza LowYat as listed in their latest price list.

Oh. It's typo then. My bad.

Intel 320 Series 40GB (RM 279)
OCZ Vertex 2 40GB (RM 299)
OCZ Vertex Plus 60GB (RM 279)

See the technical specs of Intel SSD 320 Series.
Smaller capacity means lesser NAND Flash which obviously reduce the speed.
The sweet spot would me 80GB-160GB.
Fortunately, it's going to be faster than HDD a lot even though it's the lowest end 320 Series SSD.

Regular HDD only has less than 100 IOPS while high performance HDD might have more than 100 IOPS.
SSDs are talking about thousands of IOPS. It might not be fast in sequential read/writes but it'll definitely boot up your machine significantly faster than regular hard drives.

However, 40GB for boot drive is sufficient if you don't use it for anything else but OS only.

I can hardly find any retailers of Crucial m4 here in Malaysia.

Mr.Lonely bought one, should ask him how he bought.

Anyway, I know about vshub, vPost and VIAddress.
Should have plenty of others. Let's see what Mr.Lonely used.

Wow!! So nice... Envious...