C300 externally or internally for MP 2009?

[HHarm]

I have a Mac Pro early 2009. I'm thinking of getting a Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB for as a Windows 7 boot drive. From what I understood, with the OS's TRIP function it should it's a good choice.

I'm also getting an external 4TB HD enclosure. I'm going to be running that with a NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 Controller Card. After that I have an unused eSata port. Will I get a performance benefit from the 6 Gb/s controller if I use the C300 SSD in an external enclosure? (and from what I understood, Win7 is bootable with the eSata card)

Of course if there's a better SSD choice for my need I'm interested! The SSD should be >100Gb and at the same price range.

[Hellhammer]

It's noticeable faster with SATA 6Gb/s link (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3812/the-ssd-diaries-crucials-realssd-c300/3)

You can (http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7install/thread/e08dd9e5-a4f4-47d5-afc3-a0325ad045ac) install Windows 7 to eSATA drive too.

[Concorde Rules]

The question is if it is bootable with a mac :p

If it doesn't work it's not the end of the world if it's connected to the internal ports, 300Mb/sec read max but when are you ever sequentially reading as a boot drive!? :p

[Honumaui]

put them on a new 1880 series areca raid card :)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=256976&page=5

http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sas_controllers/#Areca

[Giuly]

From what I understood, with the OS's TRIP function it should it's a good choice.
I think this will only work with the LSD-Addon in Windows 7.

But back to topic, if you don't use SATA-III, the C300 doesn't make sense, as SATA-II cuts of at ~270MB/s, and there are SSDs like the OWC ones (http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro), which are slower in read (but still faster than SATA-II) but much faster in write operations.

So unless you don't get the SATA-III controller, get another SSD.

And there is no difference between eSATA and SATA, they only use different connectors and cable specifications, but the signal is the same. Windows 7 can't tell whether it's SATA or eSATA.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/ESATA_slotblech.jpg/725px-ESATA_slotblech.jpg