Buying an SSD drive. What to get?

[OleBoy]

I'm long past due. They've been out for quite some time, and the prices have dropped considerably. My main concern, what one to get?
It will have only flight simulator on board. I think 240-256GB is plenty. More than I will ever need.

What brand (size, speed, etc) should I buy?

[Naismith]

Sheesh the specs seem to change all the time. I would recommend going to YouTube and do a search there for NCIX & SSD that compnay do some very good spec reviews ..... and they have expanded into the USA.

[stansdds]

I'm long past due. They've been out for quite some time, and the prices have dropped considerably. My main concern, what one to get?
It will have only flight simulator on board. I think 240-256GB is plenty. More than I will ever need.

What brand (size, speed, etc) should I buy?

Yeah, and at one time I thought anything more than 1GB of RAM was gross overkill. I'm just saying that software is taking up larger and larger portions of hard drives, get the largest, high quality drive that you can afford.

[OleBoy]

After reading and watching several reviews, I'm actually overwhelmed with all I've absorbed. Or haven't.
Some say that vertex 2 is the way to go, others say vertex 4 is the latest and greatest.
Some say it's best to have the OS, and FSX on the SSD, some say put the OS on the spin-drive and FSX on the SSD.

Top 10 reviews has a listing for the 10 best SSD's. Best for what? Until when?
OCZ has the Vertex 4 with a 5yr warranty. Sounds good. But is the drive what I want?

TOO MUCH INFO!!!! I know nothing about these darn things to make a logical decision.

Maybe it's best I just stick with the mechanical spiny things.

[wombat666]

My personal choice in the SSD range is the OCZ Vertex 4 256GB at A$250+/- change, not only is it fast but it comes with a 5 year warranty.
Runs the O/S without breaking a sweat and at roughly A$1.00 per GB the price is right.
I run FSX on a second Vertex 4, and everything else goes onto a pair of 500GB 10,000 RPM Western Digital 'Raptors'.
This works the best for me, and I've tried various combinations of drives and what goes where.
If reliability is a concern then the 240GB Intel SSD 520 Series is just about bullet-proof, at A$300.00 it costs a bit but it comes with a 5 year warranty as well.

[OleBoy]

Wombat, knowledge is key. Your dealings (and your being a simmer) have aided my decision on the purchase of two (OS/Fsim) OCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSDs from NewEgg. Great timing on my part. They have a sale running currently for $199.00ea.
Not only do I have a reason to reformat, my system, and Prepar3D will have snap and vigor too boot.

Thank you for your assistance.

[wombat666]

You're welcome!
I've hooked mine up to the SATA 3 ports and they are noticeably quicker, and while they are backward compatible with SATA 2 the speed drops off.
FWIW, an SSD is not defragged in the conventional way, that cuts the life of the drive (so I'm told and I have no intention of testing the theory!) and the inbuilt drive optimisation runs in the background.
At that price you can't go wrong.

[txnetcop]

wombat666!!! ya done good...OCZ vertex4 is HOT STUFF and very reliable...:O)
Ted