Which 120GB SSD?

[neonplanet40]

Hi guys just about to order and need a quick answer. Most im willing to pay is £180 so what do you guys think i should get?

There is a few diff ones mainly

Kingston SSDNow V-Series V100 128GB
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s
Intel 320 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II


Thanks for the help

mark

[mrt9888]

You can't really make a bad choice with the ones you have chosen, the OCZ should be the fastest but the Sandforce controller slows down when working with compressed files as it compresses all the files on the disk. I would get the OCZ but the Crucial is also close in performance.


Kingston SSDNow V-Series V100 128GB price
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s speed
Intel 320 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II reliability
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II speed

[Blackmage]

I would get the crucial hands down the best of that list. Even out performs a vertex 3 on average.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Aria just did those deals again and they sold out again.

The following drive was around £110 to £120 IIRC:

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Compo...roductId=44362

[neonplanet40]

yea seen that Cat but missed it. Had the 64GB corsair in my basket but decided it wasnt big enough and binned it

Ordered the Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s

It was the cheapest. And ppl say its good . . . although some also say its bad

We shall see lol

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

yea seen that Cat but missed it. Had the 64GB corsair in my basket but decided it wasnt big enough and binned it

I was kicking myself for missing that deal until I realised with postage it would come to around £73. The Vertex is slower but at £59.99 sounded more palatable to me ATM!!

[neonplanet40]

Yea I also added in postage to northern ireland and then realised I wasnt saving so much

On another note I got 2 2TB drives on ocuk offers for £96 and 8Gb ram for 60, so not too bad.

Also got the Dell U2311 on Aria for £199

So yea expensive day . . . .

Given that aria was meant to have some BD in stock from AMD for the event and they couldnt send them due to problems Im going to assume that AMD is even further off than we expect. Most likely we will get another paper launch . . . .

[neonplanet40]

Ok guys I cancelled my crucial that I had ordered and pre ordered the Corsair Force Series 3 120GB for 185.99.

Good move?

[neonplanet40]

Ok well actually i ordered everything else and cancelled the SSD because I havent decided which one to get

There is the corsair force series 3 120Gb at about £185
The Crucial M4 128GB Drive at approx 175
Kingston SSDNow V-Series V100 128GB 2.5" for £175

or any others

Need to do more research me thinks. Im very interested in how reviews say that drives are bad at 4k file speeds.

[Blackmage]

Use the anandtech bench to compare drives. I would post a link but I'm on a mobile browser

[Skulltrail]

Ok guys I cancelled my crucial that I had ordered and pre ordered the Corsair Force Series 3 120GB for 185.99.

Good move?

Very much so, especially at that price.

[iranu]

Ok well actually i ordered everything else and cancelled the SSD because I havent decided which one to get

There is the corsair force series 3 120Gb at about £185
The Crucial M4 128GB Drive at approx 175
Kingston SSDNow V-Series V100 128GB 2.5" for £175

or any others

Need to do more research me thinks. Im very interested in how reviews say that drives are bad at 4k file speeds.

You can get the corsair force series 3 for £170 - BT shop and Dabs (free delivery)

I'm very close to making the leap for that drive myself. I haven't found a review of the corsair drive yet. As I do more research I'm seeing that the advertised speeds, read/write/IOPS, don't necessarily equate to real world performance.

[neonplanet40]

Yea after research im getting conflicting advice also. Which Is why i dont know what to buy!!! Best price/performace is what im after

[gilljoy]

I've a 64Gb M4 and its a brilliant SSD.

I would go for it or the intel personally

[eagle123]

try out the corsair force 3 that a the better bargain, the read write speeds are as fast at the vertex 3 and like the corsair professional series it got better trim control

[neonplanet40]

Picture of my Cruical 128GB M4 drives perforamce. As im new to ssd drives im loving it My rapter is pants in comparison!