Which SSD and what's the difference ?

SeantheMan

Hi all,

Gonna buy an SSD, that's already decided.
Gonna be 120gb (just need OS and maybe 2 games on it)

The question is, when I refine my search on a site, like Dabs, I'm presented with a wide range , which all look pretty much the same.

http://www.dabs.ie/category/components-and-storage,hard-drives,internal-hard-drives/11154-56350000-52750000-14

It's been filtered by the below

Type: SSD
Capacity: 0GB - 160GB
Price Range Inc VAT: 150 - 300


Can anyone advise on which is the best drive or make to buy in that list, or that would be ideal for the purpose mentioned above.

Thanks

ShadowHearth

crucial m4. the least problematic and most reliable ssd in the market.

120gb will be bale to have waaay more then 2 games and OS.

i got 60gb ssd with OS bf3 (18gb) and still around 24gb free.

the_syco

SeantheMan wrote: »

It's been filtered by the below

Type: SSD
Capacity: 0GB - 160GB
Price Range Inc VAT: 150 - 300

Does your motherboard have SATA3 ports, or do you need a PCI-E card to get SATA3 ports?

SeantheMan

It does according to its specs yeah

Storage AMD SB950 controller :
6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
JMicron® JMB362 controller :
2 x eSATA 3Gb/s port(s), red

Outkast_IRE

ShadowHearth wrote: »

crucial m4. the least problematic and most reliable ssd in the market.

120gb will be bale to have waaay more then 2 games and OS.

i got 60gb ssd with OS bf3 (18gb) and still around 24gb free.

I would argue that the intel drives are the least problematic, and any ones that have failed they send replacements immediately as they want the failed drive back quickly for testing.

the_syco

Got a "Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SSD" myself. Reviews are 50-50 on it, but I find it good.

Just check the speeds, as when I was looking for a SSD a few weeks back, some of the SATA3 6GB/s drives read/wrote at sub 300GB/s speeds!

/edit
Have BF3, one or two Steam games, Win7, and an app or three on it.

ShadowHearth

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

I would argue that the intel drives are the least problematic, and any ones that have failed they send replacements immediately as they want the failed drive back quickly for testing.

well yes, intel are better. price is not better though. :rolleyes:

still m4 is best product out there if you are looking for good ssd.

SeantheMan

The 6gb/s won't work on mine though will it ? , or how does it effect me.

Also the Read/Writes for Intel and Crucial seem slow , I was near positive I had seen drives of 500mb read and write

OCZ
120GB Max Performance*
Max Read: up to 550MB/s
Max Write: up to 500MB/s

Intel
Bandwidth
Sustained Sequential Reads (up to) 270 MB/s
Sustained Sequential Writes (up to) 130 MB/s

Crucial
Sequential READ: up to 415MB/s
Sequential WRITE: up to 175MB/s

ShadowHearth

you will be reading mostly of ssd, not writing. so dont worry much about write speed.

crucial m4 is best to get ( okay okay, not best ssd in ZE WORLD! ). good price, reliable, fast.

SeantheMan

I'll get that so.
I won't be affected too much by the fact I have 3GB/s and not 6GB/s ? (the drive is 6GB/s)

It says its backwards compatible, hopefully the loss isnt too much

Compatibility--SATA 6Gb/s, backward compatible to SATA 3Gb/s

JMicron® JMB362 controller :
2 x eSATA 3Gb/s port(s), red

ShadowHearth

SeantheMan wrote: »

I'll get that so.
I won't be affected too much by the fact I have 3GB/s and not 6GB/s ? (the drive is 6GB/s)

It says its backwards compatible, hopefully the loss isnt too much

Compatibility--SATA 6Gb/s, backward compatible to SATA 3Gb/s

JMicron® JMB362 controller :
2 x eSATA 3Gb/s port(s), red

looks like you will bottle neck it up to 300mb/s ( if google was right, but you can newer trust that damn internet! )

the_syco

As for;

SeantheMan wrote: »

The 6gb/s won't work on mine though will it ? , or how does it effect me.

You said;

SeantheMan wrote: »

Storage AMD SB950 controller :
6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray

So it should. If you have a normal SATA3 HDD plugged into it, swap it out, as the SSD will be able to use the full 6GB/s more than the normal HDD could ever.

the_syco wrote: »

Got a "Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SSD" myself.

Internal Data Rate - 555 MBps (read) / 515 MBps (write)
Maximum 4KB Random Write - 85000 IOPS

They go like f**king gold, though. Elara.ie & Eurieka.ie had 5 in stock, ordered on Monday, they were all gone by Tuesday. Amazon.co.uk has them for roughly €200 after you take in exchange rate and shipping. I only went for Eurieka as I needed it that week, and Eurieka had the PCI-E card as well as the SSD.

SeantheMan

Bought the M4,
Gonna start backing stuff up onto my other drives in preperation

ShadowHearth

SeantheMan wrote: »

Bought the M4,
Gonna start backing stuff up onto my other drives in preperation

if you newer had any ssds, then get ready for world of WOW