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120 and 240gb evo`s in mine
the mx100 512 was down to around £125 today.
I was so tempted, in retrospect, I have no idea why :-
Last edited by Millennium; 21-03-2015 at 06:18 PM. Reason: spel-ling
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1 x MX100 256GB in laptop, presently 1/2 full with Win 7 & some apps. Not used for gaming so IMO more than ample plus trying to keep at least 25% free space as articles I've read suggest fuller SSD's perform worse. Bought the Crucial for 3 reasons a) very good price (£64) b) fair performance c) good manufacturer
Have also a 1 x Samsung evo 840 250GB which may end up in my main PC (currently buying new hardware to upgrade it). Envisage 1/2 full with Win 7 & some apps, games and data will be on HDD's. Bought the Samsung for 3 reasons a) on clearance @£40 b) good performance c) good manufacturer even if there is the performance drop issue on some evo 840's
Going over to SSD's for OS drives has made me more conscious of a) only installing apps I use b) deleting unused files/data. Toying with idea to buy a 3rd SSD to use with the left over parts from my main PC upgrade to create a media PC. For me 250GB is bare minimum I'd buy, I do look for a balance of price and good performance when buying.
2x 1tb - one samsung 840 evo and one crucial m500
evo for os and files, crucial m500 for games
I'm rocking a 1tb 850 evo currently. The pricing is so reasonable nowadays, not like back in the day.
Millennium (09-04-2015)
Just a 32GB Sandisk SSD as a cache drive alongside my 2TB mechanical... It does a great job. I got stung a few years back with an OCZ and Corsair SSD that failed in no time (they were very expensive back then too!). I would get another SSD as a boot drive, but I really can't be arsed reinstalling everything and the 32GB cache drive has been very effective so far.
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2 Samsung 850 EVO 500g each in raid 0
Re: What size SSD are you running?
I just yesterday upgraded from an HyperX 3k 128gb to a Samsung 850 Evo 500GB.
The access times in RAPID mode are quite epic, check this out.
The upgrade was silly easy too. I just installed samsungMagician, checked that it had the latest firmware (which it did), then ran the other samsung tool to transfer the OS across from my existing SSD. Prolly around 12 mins, total (the new SSD wasn't plugged into a Sata3 initially).
Running an Intel P67 chipset on RAID mode (as good as ACHI for this SSD, I've been reading)...
Just now turned on the RAPID mode, I just hope I don't start running out of memory with my 8GB (it will eat around 1.5GB), for most of my uses now it should be just fine and I can't wait to try out the super fast access times.
Value For Money - ~After buying the SSD I heard that Intel and Micron (Crucial) are working on a new 3d nand tech that should give us terabyte SSD devices more cheaply in the nearfield future. They're going to "hold" the VFM crown soon (tm). For now though I'm happy with it and it should be fine with my games and OS. It was around £25 more than the equivalent MX100/MX200 from Crucial but I overlooked that for the access times being a little better. Now, with RAPID, they're a lot better still (didn't know that would happen when I bought the upgrade, though I think I'd read that article).
Would recommend (as usual) any SSD in a system without one, for a power user also, this 850 EVO gets my vote. Even without RAPID, my browser was more responsive last night when I finished the upgrade process. It's also nice and thin.
There wasn't much separating the fastest SATA3 interface SSD devices from each other, bar the raw millisecond access times.
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I do like the Rapid mode on the Evos.
Anyhow, currently sporting a RAID array of 120GB 840 Evos, have another 256GB 840 Pro in the HTPC and a 500GB 840 Evo in the main rig alongside the RAID.
Been eyeing up the Samsung SM951, had the 128GB SP941 for a while, either that or I wait and see what the pricing is like on the new Intel NVMe drives, been tempted by a PCIe one again since my OCZ X2 RevoDrive, LOL, forgot that fella, its been in storage for some time now.
An old Kingston 100GB SSD. Probably upgrade later this year, so I'm planning to use the 100GB for an experiment with Linux dm-cache in the next Fedora release.
2 x 256GB Crucial MX100s. One for OS and one for games. Happy so far, apart from the Storage Executive tool.
120gb here, big enough for Windows and programs. I'd like another for my games though..
I've been using a 60GB OCZ drive for a long long time and I've never had any issues with keeping 10-15 GB free. I keep everything to do with programs and Steam installed to 2x 1TB drives along with all my backups from my work.
Im running a samsung 850 pro 256 gb, but im thinking to get a an another ssd or HDD
64GB Crucial M4 for server OS
120GB EVO 850 for gaming OS
32GB random Toshiba mSata for my laptop with a 500GB Momentus Hybrid for storage
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