Which ssd should I get?
Crucial m4 128gb
or
ocz agility 3 120gb
Which ssd should I get?
Crucial m4 128gb
or
ocz agility 3 120gb
ok, is there anything even better for the price range around £100 ?
There isn't really anything better in terms of GB/£ than crucial m4. They're a good choice.
ok I see. Thanks for the help
I have just ordered an intel 330 120gb, swapping out a samsung 64gb sata2, anyone had any experience with one?
The reviews looked good from what I have read but, they look fairly new so, I suppose time will tell
Built my new system a few weeks back and after reading up quite a bit on SSD's it seems the M4 is one of the best and what I went for. Good reviews and proven reliability.
You can pick up the 128GB for under £100 mark at a lot of places now![]()
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I'd say get the 120gb M4 as its available for £89.99 at the moment, other than that the Corsair ForceGT would get my recommendation.
It seems that NAND technology is getting cheaper to produce, expect prices to plummet even more over the coming weeks/months. We might see the 256GB go for 140-150 soon.
Yes, the m4 slim is available for £89.99 on ebuyer atm
Anyone using 2x Crucial 128GB M4 SSD RAID 0?? It is worth it?
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Was just about to ask the same question, seems it's gone up to £92.99 for the M4 now on ebuyer but still a good price![]()
Scan is doing the 128GB M4 for £88.94 Inc VAT today. Ordered 2 for RAID0.
Why are OCZ not a good choice? I was about to order a Agility 3 120gb one, the M4 going to serve me better?
Sorry should of said it's a gaming machine mainly SWTOR at the moment.
Edit : So looking at the M4, they seem to have same read speeds, but lowish write is that really an issue for me?
Last edited by Demonwar; 05-05-2012 at 12:14 AM.
RAID 0 is only going to be worth it if you're maxing the throughput of one drive. Most of the speed a user 'feels' from a SSD is due to the very fast seek times, not sequential reading and writing (although they help, don't get me wrong)
This is covered in many threads on here - have a search, but the general gist is that Sandforce based drives have had a bad history in terms of reliability, and have the usual compression considerations / issues related to all Sandforce drives.
The M4s write speed is fine, the Vertex 3 just looks a lot higher due to the data being compressible. The vast majority of operations on a drive in a home system is reading, not writing anyway. Unless you have some weird situation, the M4's write speed is not going to be an issue. Even the slowest M4 64gig model has write speeds that match most modern spindle based drives without an issue, any higher capacity drives write speeds trounce modern home spindle based drives.
It's a non-issue.
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