SSD Boot Drive: OCZ Vertex 3 (Sandforce) vs Crucial RealSSD c300 (Marvell)

Hi guys and Gals,

I was hoping for some help. I have been piecing together a water cooled gaming rig as budget and time allow for almost a year now. Last April I grabbed the Crucial RealSSD C300 [newegg.com] as the boot drive, thinking I'll use a seperate 1TB spinning platter drive for media storage, leaving the SSD for programs and OS.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago when there was the FP deal for the OCZ Vertex 3 [newegg.com], which I grabbed as well, thinking it could be bound for a laptop or something...

Well, I'm coming to wonder which is the better one for my hopefully soon to be completed gaming rig. Here's my breakdown so far.

CAPACITY
OCZ - 120GB
Crucial- 128GB

Interface
OCZ - Sata III
Crucial - Sata III

Read/Write
OCZ Read: 550mb/s
OCZ Write: 500mb/s
Crucial Read: 355mb/s
Crucial Write: 140 mb/s

Controller
OCZ -Sandforce
Crucial - Marvell

I stopped right there. It seems the OCZ Vertex 3 is much better, it's just hard to swallow since the Crucial cost twice as much a year ago. I checked out TOm's hardware and found this roundup Ten 60 GB SandForce-Based Boot Drives, Rounded-Up [tomshardware.com] it mentions the OCZ but not the crucial model I have, just the new m4 series.

Any opinions? Not looking to buy yet a third SSD, trying to figure out which of these is better. Leaning heavily towards the OCZ Vertex 3..

Thanks

Well yeah, the OCZ is newer and better.