I know a few of you have SSDs and it's likely I'm just about to order a new i7 XPS laptop for Dell, and will probably get a new SSD for day 1 and do a fresh re-install...

Now looking at what's around, 120GB will be fine, as I'll have a 500GB HD in the second bay, and at 120 GB the speeds are much faster...

OCZ 120GB Vertex 3 - £160
OCZ 120GB Agility 3 - £130
Corsair 120GB Force 3 - £123

The latter two are slightly lower spec than the Vertex, but I'm not sure the the additional £30+ is worth it for the performance increase?

Your thoughts and experiences?

Tom's hardware link for reference:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-price-ssd,3070-6.html

A quick look on Amazon has shown that the Agility 3 has much better satisfaction in terms of reliability..

If you are jumping from HDD to SSD then save yourself the £30 and get one of the marginally slower drives as you won't notice the difference, I can't fault my C300 and the Force 3's are faster than that, just remember random read speed and performance at higher queue depths are most important, overall write speed shouldn't matter so much.

I'll be upgrading my current laptop with ssd, although the ssd is old tech to not a massive amount faster than HDD. Agility looks like its the way to go tbh..

My Dell is the worst laptop I've ever had the misfortune of using.
Choose wisely.  I'll not be getting another.

I've got an Agility 3, you can't go wrong with them, they are good bang for the buck.

Quote from: soopahfly on December 28, 2011, 18:55:14 PM
My Dell is the worst laptop I've ever had the misfortune of using.
Choose wisely.  I'll not be getting another.

Agreed. Worst thing my firm ever did was contract with Dell. The fail rate is through the roof these days... and we used to use ACER!!

Dabs are doing the 120Gb Vertex 3 for £144.99 delivered at the moment

http://www.dabs.com/products/ocz-technology-120gb-vertex-3-series-sata-iii-2-5--solid-state-drive-7D7X.html?utm_source=retention+email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email291211&utm_content=i700


This is worth a read, I think at the £144.99 mark I'd plump for the Vertex 3:
http://geekmontage.com/texts/ocz-agility-3-vs-ocz-vertex-3-comparison/

Cheers guys, I've been looking at Dell as I have had a a very reliable Vostro 17" for ages (It just wont die)

And my gf and a couple of other people I know have the Inspiron 15s without issues...

Could you let me know the problems you have been having? And what would you recommend otherwise? (I'm looking at a 17" 1080, i5/7 with two hard drive bays)

Cheers again guys..

I can't reccommend these guys enough for buying a new laptop:

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on December 29, 2011, 12:37:39 PM
I can't reccommend these guys enough for buying a new laptop:

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/

They haven't got anything i5/7 with a FHD screen at the moment

Quote from: XEntity on December 29, 2011, 12:27:39 PM
Cheers guys, I've been looking at Dell as I have had a a very reliable Vostro 17" for ages (It just wont die)

And my gf and a couple of other people I know have the Inspiron 15s without issues...

Could you let me know the problems you have been having? And what would you recommend otherwise? (I'm looking at a 17" 1080, i5/7 with two hard drive bays)

Cheers again guys..

I've had loads of Latitudes and they have been indestructable.
I replaced my last one with an Inspiron 1764 and it's build quality is terrible.
It creaks, the CPU fan stops spinning and the laptop switches off through thermal shutdown.
Battery died completely after 6 months and Dell didn't want to know.
Loads of other little niggles.

I sell Lenovo's now to my customers, never had one fail.

I've got a Lenovo for work and seems pretty good, apart from the track pad, that's the worst design ever and the Ctrl key is in the wrong place!

I'll give the range a look and see what's around with a sensible track pad..

Lenovo appear to have dropped their 17" line of laptops!

I regret getting a 17" laptop.  It's just too big for day to day lugging about.
It's not that much bigger than the wife's 15.6" Lenny, but her's is lighter.