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OCZ Vertex 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC SSD + $15 GC for $150 at Newegg

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Posted at 7:48 AM on Thursday 02/16/12 by

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Newegg has the OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) for $170 - $20 rebate [Exp 2/29] = $150 with free shipping. $15 Newegg Gift Card included with purchase. Features read speeds of up to 550 MB/s and write speeds of up to 500 MB/s. [Newegg Reviews : Compare]

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$OCZ Vertex 3 2.5\" 120GB SATA III MLC SSD + $15 GC for $150 at Newegg$

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tommytqt - Posted 8:08 am PST 02/16/12 (195 Posts) Report Spam
not sure when these get cheaper....

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jdev - Posted 11:49 am PST 02/16/12 (150 Posts) Report Spam
Don't expect much in the way of a price drop on these in the near future. That being said; If you've got the money to drop on one, do it. You can't find another upgrade that will give you the wow factor of a new SSD.

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dgower - Posted 1:17 pm PST 02/16/12 (204 Posts) Report Spam
are SSDs good for a FreeBSD general home server?

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dave_c - Posted 1:34 pm PST 02/16/12 (17707 Posts) Report Spam

dgower wrote:

are SSDs good for a FreeBSD general home server?

It would be very fast using one, and especially SSDs are great for database servers BUT for home servers were there isn't a lot of I/O once the OS has loaded, except for file serving requests over a LAN with the LAN itself being the bottleneck most of the time, so the extra cost of an SSD doesn't make much sense, nor does the reduced capacity.

However if you are certain the storage requirement is still below the budget for any particular size SSD, OR if you want a separate OS boot drive from your data drive(s), an SSD for the OS boot drive can make more sense than ever today with the temporary price increases of mechanical HDDs.

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