Haha since I was called out here I will reply Let the record show that I do not agree with tweakboy that a samsung f4 is as fast as a ssd. however, the op stating he wants to compare benchmarks is lame. Benchmarks are not indicative of real world usage in most cases, ESPECIALLY where sandforce drives are concerned. I did not talk trash on ssds UNTIL I bought it and used one, this is the difference in tweakboy and I.
alaricljs how is the drive I bought so grossly overpriced? It was 99 bucks for a 40gb and while there are drives cheaper, a quick search on newegg shows a 40gb vertex II costing 115 bucks I'm sure most think it is stupid to put a ssd in a htpc, but here was my logic. I do not run my htpc 24/7, I have a ton of junk plugged into the same outlet bigscreen tv, cable box dvr, ps3, etc etc. I turn this off manually so that it doesn't sit there and burn electricity, so I wanted a system that would boot fast. I am not completely and utterly hateful of the ssd purchase I made, I just do not think it is worth the huge premium. Does the drive boot windows 7 fast? Heck yes it certainly does, but it's not instant or 5 or 10 seconds like some claim theirs to be. In truth until they get the posting and bios screens faster there is not alot of point. It takes me 35 seconds or so from the time I hit the button to when windows is up and ready to go, this is not shabby performance but some on this forum and others WAY overhype what these things will do that's all. I realize alot of this function is in my motherboard, but launching apps and shutting down and plenty other things are not "instant" and going back and forth between both rigs I cannot tell alot of difference. If it makes sense and works for others then great.