TITAN SSD Performance Review

[Brahmzy]

To the OP,

is this drive worth $300 for a first time SSD buyer?

I would either go with this or the non Titan, G.skill 64GB, which is priced at $135.

If you're not in a hurry, I'd wait on it. If it's a money issue though, the Vertex's are even more expensive $/GB than these... so you may be waiting 3 months to really see prices come down at this performance level. I couldn't wait any longer and just had a serious SSD itch. If I find out in 3 weeks that the Vertex's completely blow these out of the water, I'll sell these and get 3 64GB Vertex's in RAID0, or I'll put the TITANs in my other box... I'm REALLY liking these things. Got to mess a little more with 'em last night for a few minutes. Things really are snappy as hell.

I also got a copy of Diskeeper 2009 with that SSD Hyperfast technology and I swear it has really helped the overall feel of things even more.
I thought it was all marketing hype. I talked to the engineer (I have a pretty serious relationship with the Diskeeper guys through my job) behind the Hyperfast stuff at Diskeeper yesterday and he convinced me to give it a shot... I think the trial comes with it free for 30 days... y'all may wanna see what it does for you.

This weekend if I get any time, I'll be loading all of my games on the SSDs and giving them a real run...

In the meantime, I've got 3 and potentially 5 Velociraptors to offload way cheap...