Corsair Nova 2.5" 32GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-V32GB2-BRKT

Pros: Read performance is excellent for an SSD of this price. Games that use Texture Streaming systems like Crysis will benefit with drives like this due to the virtually non-existent seek time. It has TRIM support. If you want an SSD, you will want a drive with support for TRIM, so that performance doesn't go down the tubes as it fills up. Remember only Windows 7 has support for TRIM.

Cons: Write performance is decent, large file writes are best, small writes can cause a little stuttering. Annoying bracket, since SSD's lack moving parts, I just taped it to the side of my comp case. You won't get a lot on this drive. I got windows 7 and Crysis to fit with only a few GB's left. If you want to keep your entire library of games on an SSD, you'll need a much bigger one. With this one, you might have to swap games.

Overall Review: Do NOT disable the paging file with an SSD. Many apps are designed to use the paging file and will crash without it. Disabling it will not increase performance. Do NOT disable Superfetch, unless you have very little RAM (under 2GB). Superfetch will still improve performance when loading commonly used apps, even with SSD's. Do NOT disable Prefetching. It does not cache stuff in RAM, it just index's often used app's DLL locations. The prefetch folder rarely is larger than 4MB. Move the pagefile to a Hard Drive. Not only will the pagefile quickly kill an SSD due to the massive amounts of writes required, you'll get a lot of stuttering due to small writes being an area most SSD's suck at. If you want performance, get a RAM Disk for the pagefile. Don't disable Texture Streaming Systems in games like Crysis, or force preloading of game data. The SSD will serve up data extremely fast on the fly, forcing everything into RAM will just waste RAM space, for a very minimal quality boos

Pros: This worked great. I just used it for Windows 7 operating system, and it gets a little cramped, but very fast and works.

Cons: My mom spilled a milkshake inside my computer through a series of unfortunate events. This, among other parts, failed.

Overall Review: I was going to give this 0 eggs, but then I realized that it's not the SSD's fault it got milkshake on it. My mom deserves 0 eggs, not Corsair.

Pros: - ATTO benchmarks on a fresh, vLited Windows 7 32-bit install returned speeds 5%-10% faster than advertised. Speeds will probably return to spec as the drive fills up. Indilinx controller has turned into a nice consumer workhorse. In terms of market positioning, it's a real step up over JMicron-based units, while still not expensive overkill for certain applications the way the Sandforce drives can be. - Included "drive sled" for mounting the drive in a traditional 3.5" drive bay is a little cheesy, but does the job.

Cons: - 32 GB capacity makes this useful almost exclusively as a Windows 7 boot drive. If that's what you plan on using it for, then it's all you'll ever need. Do the following and it's more than enough space: * Use a software tool such as vLite to reduce the installation footprint of the OS before the install. Things like foreign language support, tablet support, voice support, etc. are generally huge space-wasters on most Windows 7 setups. I got my 32-bit Win7 install down to 5 gigs without losing functionality. You can too. * Disable hibernation and you can free up an additional few gigs, depending on how much RAM you have. * Disable the page file or else offload it to another hard drive and that's another few gigs saved right there. * Change your TEMP and TMP environment variables so temp files are written to another volume instead of junking up your pristine new SSD.

Overall Review: If you're willing to put in just a little bit of effort into streamlining and tweaking things, 30 formatted gigabytes ends up being more than enough room. Waiting on rebate at the moment.

Pros: Used only to load Windows. Startup time is about 17 seconds.

Cons: A little on the small side, but you can disable the Hibernation feature in Windows to free up about 8 GB of space (see below).

Overall Review: Click Start, and then click Run. Then in the open box, type ” cmd ” without quotes and then click OK. From an administrative command prompt, type “powercfg -h off” to get that space back. So this trick will help you to increase up to 8GB hard disk space.

Pros: Very Very Fast

Cons: Failed quickly Bad tech support

Overall Review: I purchased two of these to run in RAID and one of the two failed within two weeks.. And tech support has been an all out nightmare.

Pros: Fast installs and start up. Programs open up about the same if not slightly faster.

Cons: Was expecting better performance compared to standard HD. It is faster/snappier but not worth the price per GB.

Overall Review: Install was a pain on an AMD motherboard. Had to find the right sata port to use (has 2 controllers on the mobo) otherwise it wasn't recognized in AHCI mode. Once Win 7 installed had to do major tweaks to get optimum performance. And no, Windows 7 did not turn off Superfetch, defrag, etc. by default, even though the ssd was the only drive hooked up at the time. It could be that you can't use the AMD AHCI sata drivers unless you can live without Trim/garbage collection. It wouldn't be an issue but the default MS driver is slower than AMD's at this point.

Pros: A great deal. I use this as my root partition on Linux (/home, /var, and /tmp are on a normal hard drive). Boot time of Fedora 13 Linux and KDE from grub loading to the desktop is 25 seconds. hdparm -t /dev/sdc reports 214.60 MB/sec and hdparm -T /dev/sdc reports 5637.81 MB/sec. The cache time is comparable to my hard drives, but the buffered disk read for my SATA III Western Digital drive is 119.58 MB/sec.

Cons: A SATA III connection would be nice.

Pros: Certainly faster than disk drives. OS and applications start up very quickly.

Cons: Small

Overall Review: 32 gigs is ideal for a small linux distribution, but i think Windows will definitely be pushing the limits after a few applications are installed