Intel 120G Solid State (Boot) Drive - yay or nay?

Looking to purchase a SSD to replace my boot drive, and was wondering :

1. If I'll really reap the rewards of going ahead with this move if my samples are all located on a separate, non-SSD drive.
2. If this would be a good, safe purchase as a boot drive. Or would this be better? (I've seen 120GB SSD drives that cost twice this much... from the same manufacturers even. Why?)

Thanks!

SATA 3 vs 6? I'm in unfamiliar territory here. Is that what would explain the price difference between this and this?

My motherboard is an Asus P6T (Socket 1366 LGA)

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67 GHz

Jumbicat, I was beginning to regret my motherboard purchase there for a minute until you re-assured me. :)

Those numbers look like typos to me. The discrepancy is far too big, no?

There is another recent thread that you might want to read:  http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2245164

jyeager11


SATA 3 vs 6? I'm in unfamiliar territory here. Is that what would explain the price difference between this and this?

My motherboard is an Asus P6T (Socket 1366 LGA)

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67 GHz

Wow, I have the same exact system and was wondering the same questions. Thanks for the post!
 
I'm about to go SSD on both drives. Just saving the cash...

When you say the SSD has Sonar X1, are you referring solely to the program, or the location of your WAVE folder as well?

Is there any point going SSD and keeping the WAVE folder (which in my case is huge) on a separate IDE drive?

I have 10GB ram, if that influences the answer.

When  I compare the reviews between the Intel X25-M and the similarly-priced OCZ Agility 2 on Newegg's product pages, the Intel seems to generate more universal praise.

Intel X25-M (120GB)

Average Seek Time: 0.5 ms
Maximum Data Transfer Rate
Read: 250 MB/s
Write: 70 MB/s

OCZ Agility 2 (120GB)

Average Seek Time: 0.1 ms
Maximum Data Transfer Rate
Read: 285 MB/s
Write: 275 MB/s

Why is that, if those average seek time & write speed figures are accurate? They overwhelmingly favor the Agility 2.

What does the X25-M have that the Agility 2 doesn't that would earn it so much of the praise I've been Googling? I just don't get it. OCZ should be slaughtering Intel with these numbers, but they're not.

OCZ (OCZSSD3-2VTX120G) Vertex 2 SATA II 3.5" 120G Solid State Drive, Read: 285MB/s, Write: 275MB/s 180.00

use this for a boot drive, you will never go back..good-day

I think they will all be limited until the SATA technology catches up!  But it is the wave of the future.

with all due respect the Vertex 2 is the correct drive to
buy at this time, the intel is too old...

let me read up brb

Your link doesn't point to a specific product (9 pages of products).

I can't really afford to go much higher than $250 for 120GB. This limits my choices back to the Intel, I think.

The one I was really leaning towards was the Vertex 2E (E = 120GB) but apparently these are the most likely to be contaminated, if that OCZ thread is any indication.

The C300 is a Crucial, and it's Sata 6. My MB can't go over Sata 2, so I'd be spending for performance I can't even use.

What I'm not fully understanding is what OCZ is accepting to trade the "bad" drives for. What exactly are they proposing to replace them with? And where can I get THAT without having to go through the return policy?

I was very high on the Vertex 2 until the Hardforum.com guys scared me out of anything OCZ, by way of the thread I quoted up above.

I was hoping not to buy online, OR purchase old products (which is what the X25-M is, reliable though it may be) but looks like I'm going to have to do both. Because the X25-M isn't even available anywhere in Montreal, physically.

Yeah, and it's looking like I'm going to have to buy from NCIX. Which means I can kiss my weekend upgrading plans goodbye.

Now that I have all this extra time (unfortunately), I'm going to keep researching this.

I've had horrible experiences with CanadaComputers. Are you associated with them?