Yea but weren't the Intel SSDs plagued with the most failures out of anyone last year? They've apparently fixed it now but lots of people had massive issues across the board with the SSDs.
It also depends on which OCZ SSD as they make a bunch. Two people is hardly a large enough sample base to make a valid decision.

There's also always Corsair to consider too.

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it is surprisingly hard to find real studies other than retailer info. I saw one from 2010 and another from 2011 where intel was at 0.5 and ocz was was at 2% . But the data was only on a sample of 500 returns. And they all pretty much had similar failure rates except intel.

I don't know. OCZ seems to be putting more effort in their SSD line or maybe better marketing.

But ya, failure rate should be on the fucking spec. Honestly, that is something people should know. I think failure rates are dependant on alot of things. The interface you are using, the power supply, the temperature the gravitational pull of the moon.

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I'm still 50/50 on the SSD idea.

The ideal pricepoint here is £120 for 120GB which would work well for the OS, apps and probably the Omnisphere install. I don't really feel comfortable spending any more than that for something I still don't think I really need, but I could spend £120 on a punt.

I'd be grabbing 16GB RAM for about £70 as well. I can't see me needing more than that for the foreseeable as 8GB servers me well at the moment.

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in general buy as fast as yuor budget allows
SSD is a good idea, got my DAW with 4 SSD's 1 for OS, 1 for samples and NEXUS libraries, one for recording and one for apps

I would defo buy Win7 x64 based PC now, apple is really obsolte and bad value for money as workhorse

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Originally posted by Raphie in general buy as fast as yuor budget allows SSD is a good idea, got my DAW with 4 SSD's 1 for OS, 1 for samples and NEXUS libraries, one for recording and one for apps I would defo buy Win7 x64 based PC now, apple is really obsolte and bad value for money as workhorse

While I agree that my W7/64 machine is infinitely better VFM than any Apple product there are two very good reasons I'm going with an iMac. Firstly I'm going to move over to Logic as well as I just adore it, and secondly I'm going to be doing lot's of tutorial videos this year and it is a total PITA on a PC. In a Mac I can use Screenflow and it just works.

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2 solid and well overthought reasons, why not a hackingtosh then?

You get way more for less, buy a nice LianLi case and it will look high-end too... just look at the hackingtosh forums for the lastest validated configs, most recent ASUS boards even have EFI BIOS so you can re-flash them tricking OSX into it being an Apple on hardware layer.

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Originally posted by tehlord While I agree that my W7/64 machine is infinitely better VFM than any Apple product there are two very good reasons I'm going with an iMac. Firstly I'm going to move over to Logic as well as I just adore it, and secondly I'm going to be doing lot's of tutorial videos this year and it is a total PITA on a PC. In a Mac I can use Screenflow and it just works.

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Originally posted by Raphie 2 solid and well overthought reasons, why not a hackingtosh then? You get way more for less, buy a nice LianLi case and it will look high-end too... just look at the hackingtosh forums for the lastest validated configs, most recent ASUS boards even have EFI BIOS so you can re-flash them tricking OSX into it being an Apple on hardware layer.

I'm not really a fan of stuff like Hackintiosh and even overclocking. One of the reasons I'm happy to spend the extra as well is that this is partially income related so downtime is a bad thing. I'm not saying for one second that a Mac won't fail, but I'm pretty sure that a Hackintosh will fail more.

And I'm not taking GAS advice from somebody like you either

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Intel currently have the lowest failure rate of all SSD's.

OCZ are good drives but their failure rate is substantially higher (some reports as L4C mentioned put it at 2% which is a 1 in 50 chance) than intel's and for audio is unacceptable IMO.

Intels figures for the x25 g2 across 100,000 drives was 0.26% and apparetnly so far they are expecting even less failures with the 320, 510 and 520 ranges due to changes in their new chip providers and firmware selection, not to mention TRIM now being widely availble on all platforms.