Did you check what motherboard (and hence if he's using onboard controller) the guy in the video with the Intel 520 SSD was using? Was it on a fresh OS install?

What brand is your SATA III card? Did you reinstall your OS or just copied your old OS from your 1TB to your SSD? I think you should run your SSD off your X58 board even if it's only SATA II.

Your benchmarks look quite decent and as you can see, the bootup times don't mean a thing.

5 year warranty applies to the more expensive 520 series. The 330 series is still 3 year warranty.

Price wise, both the Intel 330 120 GB and Crucial M4 128 GB SSDs are about the same.

What did you do to make boot faster?

---

Added on August 22, 2012, 1:55 pmThere is one more which you missed out... Intel 330 120GB.

I would say either the Intel 330 or the Crucial M4.

Why? In real world performance, all of them perform about the same. Go for the one which is stable and gives you the best warranty for given price.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Aug 22 2012, 01:55 PM

Disable login password would speed the start up a little but I don't think it will bring the start up from 17 seconds down to 6 seconds.

Yes, it makes "old" notebooks workable again. Note that the 6Gbps limit is only reached during synthetic benchmarks. In real world operation, no difference between SATA II and SATA III and would probably not hit the limit of SATA II even.

For information, these are the prices I surveyed just a few hours ago;

Intel 330 60GB
Startec - RM 205
Jayacom - RM 209
Cycom - NA
Viewnet - RM 209
Czone - RM 229

Intel 330 120GB
Startec - RM 310
Jayacom - RM 335
Cycom - RM 325
Viewnet - RM 319
Czone - RM 349

Fret not. I bought my 120 GB for close to RM 350 a few weeks ago. The prices above are from the respective shop's price list. Most are listed as cash prices. Did not ask if there is a surcharge on credit card.

Oh BTW for those who are interested to get the Crucial M4 in Low Yat Plaza, Jayacom now carries them;

64 GB - RM 235
128 GB - RM 349
256 GB - RM 699
512 GB - RM 1299

How long were you running the SSD before you found out that you did not have TRIM enabled? Could it be that the SSD drive degraded before you enabled TRIM?

Speed is what SSD is used for. If you don't put the pagefile in a fast drive, what the use of changing to SSD?

Pagefiles are created once and usually the size remains if you have enough memory. If you're paranoid, make the pagefile size permanent. Pagefiles are mostly read only activity and would not hurt the SSD

If you could afford it and had to have the latest and greatest at that time, I guess the price could be justified. Don't think Intel still has the X25-M in stock to give you a replacement drive. You'd probably get a 330 or 320 replacement which is quite good lah.

Yes, you got a point. 5 years in the computer world is AGES.

Depends on how much that extra two years of warranty cost. If it's too much extra, I would just take the 3 year warranty and be done with it.

A little side track, all this talk about extended warranty reminds me of an incident I encountered... I got an Acer 1410 laptop in late 2009 and paid extra two years warranty from Harvey Norman (total 3 years). Then as recent as 2 months ago, the motherboard kaput just before the 3 years warranty was up. Called HN and sent it in for them to take a look and thought they would write it off and give me a new replacement... But then they managed to get Acer to replace the motherboard. So it's back to original now and I can say that I'm happy to be covered but even though a little bitter sweat that I could not get a new Sandy Bridge laptop as replacement.

Oh, to get this back on topic, I have a 128GB Crucial M4 in that Acer.

Desktop? If your computer is still new, get another same brand and same size 60GB SSD and put it in RAID 0 (2 x 60GB = 120GB = double the performance).

a.

If he decides to get a new Vertex 4, what does he do with his existing 60GB drive?