SSD for Visual Studio: Intel X25-m G2 or OCZ Vertex

"In this article from AnandTech (July 22, 2009) I find different information : ""Intel X25-M G2: Dissected and Performance Preview"". It contains many benchmarks, on all of which Intel wins hands down, and concludes by:

The X25-M G2 appears to be everything
Intel said it would be. It's anywhere
from 0 - 40% faster than the 1st gen
drive in these low level tests. I
would expect to see a 0 - 10%
improvement in the real world
depending on applications."

"I've upgraded an old Dell 620 with a 80gb Intel 25-M.

The results were amazing. A very notiecable improvement. This machine runs faster than a laptop that is three years younger.

I'm running Windows 7 on both but the one with the X-25 is a native boot from a vhd (virtual hard drive), which makes this even more impressive as this has a knock on performance, albeit slight."

"This is purely anecdotal experience. I've been using the Intel 80GB Gen2 drive with Win7 in my Dell XPS M1730 for about a month now and it absolutely flies. The M1730 can actually take two internal disk drives, so I just switched the older/larger 7200rpm drive to be the secondary.

If there are issues with write speed, I haven't noticed them. That may be because the issues are too minor to notice or because I don't actually do a lot of sequential writes. As I said before, I'm running Windows 7 (Enterprise x64). I'm also running Visual Studio 2008.

I can't imaging you'll be disappointed with either choice. SSDs on developer machines are a good choice no matter how you slice it."

I believe Joel on Software actually did something like this and didn't find any improvement whatsoever. You may want to search their blog to see if their experiences may help you with your choice.