Looking for a relaible SSD

[Foo]

I'm a tech for a living, they are not mine.

I have a Vertex 2 60GB as my boot drive on my desktop, and a Corsair F60 in my old Dell laptop.

The issues that are known, and i've seen with the revo drives are simply:
Random not detecting other hard drives, Unable to boot off of anything OTHER then the Revo.
other Raid arrays randomly not detecting/crashing.
etc.

When the card was in the computer by its self, it worked flawlessly and fast.

So far I've seen it 5 times so as it sits, i dont recommend it IMO.

Then again, my words mean little to nothing here so have at it

I respect your opinion on these as you've had hands on experience.

I'm considering a RevoDrive X2 240Gb as my only internal drive, and moving my 1Tb drive to an external USB that I'll only power up when needed.

Sane or likely to cause issues?

[shaft]

OCZ Vertex 3 (or 2 if your mobo doesn't support 6GB/s SATA transfer speeds).

this...or anything with the newest SandForce controller...thats what really matters, the controller and reputable company that will supply controller firmware updates.

I bought a Mushkin SSD a few months ago.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820226152
I use it for Win7 and games. 0 problems so far.

[AmIdYfReAk]

I respect your opinion on these as you've had hands on experience.

I'm considering a RevoDrive X2 240Gb as my only internal drive, and moving my 1Tb drive to an external USB that I'll only power up when needed.

Sane or likely to cause issues?

100% sane, and stupid fast.

Try it out with the 1tb drive in there as well, if you run into issues, you know what to do

[AmIdYfReAk]

Vertex 3's are starting to hit the retail shelves, and man, are they selling.

[obsidian]

I picked up a Vertex 2 for $149. Good enough for me (older mobo, not going to push 6GB/s).

[AmIdYfReAk]

Nice, what model?

I've been looking at this, wondering if i'd like to raid 0 it with my current for no good reason...

http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_ ... _id=032114

[obsidian]

120GB OCZ Vertex 2. Bought on NCIX's anniversary sale on Thursday, seems to have gone significantly up in price since then.

[AmIdYfReAk]

Indeed it did, i payed about the same for my 60GB one a little while ago.

But hey, thats the way Tech works.

[obsidian]

BTW...

Swap file: keep on SSD or move to different drive?
Superfetch and Indexing: on or off?

I see lots of contradicting guides.

[VolumetricSteve]

if you have a bunch of ram, I'd say 4gb or more, you might as well keep it on the SSD, hopefully your swap file won't be in constant use.

Alternatively, if you have an SLC based SSD, you could keep it there under any circumstances as SLC has a much, much higher re-write tolerance than MLC based SSDs.

edit:

Indexing, very off. I think indexing was partially invented to circumvent the slower seek times of Hard drives. I can't think of any reason to have this on, even with the faster hard drives coming out now.