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    My friend personally had problems getting the Vertex 3 boot from the southbridge J-Micron controller on his Sandy Bridge mobo. He's now kinda weary of OCZ because of that.

    Also, to whoever said that SSDs don't do much - I have a second generation OCZ Vertex from 2 1/2 years ago. After moving FFXIV to my SSD, I noticed significantly less stuttering as NPCs and PCs were loaded while I was entering towns, camps, etc. It really is worth moving your installation.

    With the use of junctions/symbolic links, you can move your installation without having to uninstall and reinstall too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bahn View Post
    My friend personally had problems getting the Vertex 3 boot from the southbridge J-Micron controller on his Sandy Bridge mobo. He's now kinda weary of OCZ because of that.
    Hi Bahn,

    In layman's terms (sorry (^_^;, does this mean OCZ Vertex 3 SSDs are problematic in general? Or that it's potentialliy problematic only with regards to this "Sandy Bridge" config?

    Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiara View Post
    Hi Bahn,

    In layman's terms (sorry (^_^;, does this mean OCZ Vertex 3 SSDs are problematic in general? Or that it's potentialliy problematic only with regards to this "Sandy Bridge" config?

    Thanks.
    OCZ Vertex are the SDD with best reviews around the internet have one myself on a sandy bridge MB(asus p8z68-v pro) works wonders. Also OCZ been leading the SDD market for awhile.

    To bahn

    With a sandy bridge chipset you dont really need to use JMicron since the chipset(H61,H67,P67 and Z68) itself have atleast 4 SATA ports so unless yr driving 4+ HDD/SDD i wouldnt use the JMicron ports and even if you are running that amount of SDD/HDD use one of the intel chipset ports for the boot SSD.
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    Just for your information: Most SSDs use exactly the same Flash Memory and exactly the same Sandforce Controller. The problems that occur are usually the mainboards fault(if the SSD is not broken in which case you should get it replaced right away).
    And a good SSD really can remove the stuttering in town and other loading lags by 99% (it's not just the transfer speed but also the seek time which is only like 1/1000 of a normal HDD).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorlin View Post
    OCZ Vertex are the SDD with best reviews around the internet have one myself on a sandy bridge MB(asus p8z68-v pro) works wonders. Also OCZ been leading the SDD market for awhile.
    wasn't there some issues with the sf2000 controllers? not sure if that's been fixed yet. AFAIK intel drives still have the best reliability record, though the sf based drives are faster.

    Quote Originally Posted by Coldfire View Post
    Just for your information: Most SSDs use exactly the same Flash Memory and exactly the same Sandforce Controller. The problems that occur are usually the mainboards fault(if the SSD is not broken in which case you should get it replaced right away).
    I wouldn't say they're all the "same", intel has their own controller, crucial uses marvell, and kingston has jmicron controllers etc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aenarion View Post
    wasn't there some issues with the sf2000 controllers? not sure if that's been fixed yet. AFAIK intel drives still have the best reliability record, though the sf based drives are faster.



    I wouldn't say they're all the "same", intel has their own controller, crucial uses marvell, and kingston has jmicron controllers etc.
    All Kingston SSDs, at least in the past, have been rebranded Intel drives. Maybe that's different with the newest one, I haven't looked into it just yet. Actually their newest uses Intel Chips, but a SF controller.
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    NOW i'm thinking about getting SSD,
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    Quote Originally Posted by neorei View Post
    NOW i'm thinking about getting SSD,
    "I'm not in the mood to eat ramen noodles for the next few weeks"

    Then you say this.

    The heck?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorlin View Post
    OCZ Vertex are the SDD with best reviews around the internet have one myself on a sandy bridge MB(asus p8z68-v pro) works wonders. Also OCZ been leading the SDD market for awhile.

    To bahn

    With a sandy bridge chipset you dont really need to use JMicron since the chipset(H61,H67,P67 and Z68) itself have atleast 4 SATA ports so unless yr driving 4+ HDD/SDD i wouldnt use the JMicron ports and even if you are running that amount of SDD/HDD use one of the intel chipset ports for the boot SSD.
    Hi Zorlin, Coldfire,

    Ah nice. ^^ OK, so great SSD with a newer Intel Motherboard / Chipset would be pretty safe / stable then?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bahn View Post
    Also, to whoever said that SSDs don't do much - I have a second generation OCZ Vertex from 2 1/2 years ago. After moving FFXIV to my SSD, I noticed significantly less stuttering as NPCs and PCs were loaded while I was entering towns, camps, etc. It really is worth moving your installation.
    Oh, I do have it on an SSD, got two of them in my rig actually. It's just that I run the 14 client on my ssd equipped desktop while I also have a client on a laptop with traditional drive, and while there are noticeable differences, personally I don't really think it's that big of a deal. TBH I see more difference in between ssd/hdd during non-gaming applications.
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