Quote Originally Posted by Sam_oslo View Post
C300 performs better on SATA3 for sure, but it performs so good on SATA2 that you won't notice any difference, typically or visibility . Considering this, can we say current SSD have reached the "overkill" limit already on SATA2 for average user, and OS-Disk?
Quote Originally Posted by Ao1 View Post
That would be my conclusion.

In terms of what is the fastest consumer SSD I would say the C300 is technically the fastest (on either SATA 2 or 3) and I would put the X25-M & Vertex 2 at joint second based on an all-round performance assessment. You could find loads of benchmarks that might agree or disagree with that and I wouldn’t bother auguring with anyone on that basis and in the context that it doesn’t really matter anyway to most end users.

I’m also yet to be convinced that SATA3.0 will bring any real benefit for desktop users. When hardware and software becomes more SSD user friendly things will change, but when that will happen I don’t know.
I agree with Ao1 on highlighted comment.

as far as SSD's go; What would you guys recommend buying right now. I was thinking 120ish gig or possibly 2 64ish in raid. A single 64 I think will just be too sm.

I really need a new drive for my main system and do not feel like waiting.
My initial thoughts were to go C300, but reading an article on Anandtech said for raid or a lot of writing; the SF drives would be better because the C300 performance diminishes a lot faster. I do not even know if it would be noticeable.
Then today someone mentioned an issue of the SF drives losing data or reverting back to an earlier time of data saved into memory

I would love to get the C300 256gig, but thats a bit more than I want to spend right now.

Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks