SSD's choice!!

U_Fig

Ok a little bit ago I posted an idea about replacing my HDD with and SSD.. Now I have a question about which SSD to buy..

I was looking at the OCZ vertex 3 and agility 3 models.. My only problem is my chipset only supports SATA 3gb/s while both of these drives are SATA 6gb/s compatible. I know they will both work however will I see much of a performance difference say over a vertex 2 or agility 2 drive considering the bottleneck of the vertex 3 or agility 3 being connected to the SATA 3gb/s controller..As the vertex 2 and agility 2 are a good bit cheaper..

Also I can't seem to find benchmark results for the vertex 3 and agility 3 conneced to a SATA 3gb/s controller..I know connected to a SATA 6gb/s controller the vertex 3 Shows much better performance than the agility 3 but on the SATA 3gb/s controller would you see the same superior performance from the vertex 3??

I don't want to spend extra cash for little or no performance benfit

marco_polo

Short answer is that if there is a decent price gap between the two, its is not really worth it, as the vertex 3 abolutely trounces itself when on a SATA 3 controller .

I had a slightly longer post written but then then I found this review instead, it has benchmarks of the Crucial c300 and Vertex 3 SSD running on Sata 2 and Sata 3 controllers.

http://www.storagereview.com/ocz_vertex_3_review_240gb

By virture of being a newer design the Vertex 3 would probably slightly more effiicent than a vertex 2 for certain operations (random 4k read writes/writes etc) that are not bottlenecked by SATA 2 speeds, but for bandwith critical operations like large sequential read/writes being on a SATA 2 controller would almost completely wipe out any performance gains.

U_Fig

marco_polo wrote: »

Short answer is that if there is a decent price gap between the two, its is not really worth it, as the vertex 3 abolutely trounces itself when on a SATA 3 controller .

I had a slightly longer post written but then then I found this review instead, it has benchmarks of the Crucial c300 and Vertex 3 SSD running on Sata 2 and Sata 3 controllers.

http://www.storagereview.com/ocz_vertex_3_review_240gb

By virture of being a newer design the Vertex 3 would probably slightly more effiicent than a vertex 2 for certain operations (random 4k read writes/writes etc) that are not bottlenecked by SATA 2 speeds, but for bandwith critical operations like large sequential read/writes being on a SATA 2 controller would almost completely wipe out any performance gains.

thanks i decided to go for the agility 3 i found some benchmarks for it and really on a SATA 3Gb/s controller the extra performance of the vertex 3 is not really seen so no point in spending like and extra 40 - 50 euro on it cheers