Best 240-256SSD Under 200

At under $200, you are looking at three choices for a quality SSD: Plextor M5S, Samsung 840, or Crucial m4 / M500. They all have similar performance. Unless you expect a very heavy write workload (more than 100GB per day, every day), then any of them should work for you. If you expect to write more than 100GB per day, you may want to skip the Samsung 840 since it has TLC flash and therefore lower endurance than the other two.
 
No it's for my everyday entertainment / gaming pc. I figure a 128mb is too small since BF3 takes up 30GB by itself. Having multiple games installed would be quite difficult. So I guess gaming/ entertainment would be factors but no I don't think it would be a insane workload? Not even sure how to measure that.
 
100GB per day is an insane workload unless you're running a server. 10GB a day would be a lot for a home user. I'm doing about 100GB per month on my SSD, on which I have Win7, the swap file and all of my games.

Keep your current HDD and use it to download and store media, like movies, music and pictures - those take up a lot of space but get no benefit whatsoever from an SSD. Also use the HDD for backing up your SSD.

One middle-of-the-road approach is the Intel 335 180GB, which is going for $178. It's MLC so it has higher endurance, and reviews well.
 
doesn't seem like he needs a high endurance ssd.. in which case go for the best deal you get for a quality ssd
 
Any other potential options, how fast is the non-pro 840?
 
I'm in the same boat as you. I started buying items for a new build the other day and have been doing some research on which ssd I'm going to buy. Here are a few articles that I've found that may help you out.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/5...-best-256gb-class-ssd-s-under-200/index4.html
Names the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB as the best bang for your buck in the range.
$185 on Egg and Amazon at the moment.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-3.html
Lists the Chronos Deluxe again for performance ~$185 and the Samsung 840 250gb if capacity is your preference.

Toms also uses the Chronos Deluxe in the Q1 'system builder marathon' $1k and $1.6k machines


Does anyone have any opinions on the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB?
 
JoeComp said:
At under $200, you are looking at three choices for a quality SSD: Plextor M5S, Samsung 840, or Crucial m4 / M500. They all have similar performance. Unless you expect a very heavy write workload (more than 100GB per day, every day), then any of them should work for you. If you expect to write more than 100GB per day, you may want to skip the Samsung 840 since it has TLC flash and therefore lower endurance than the other two.
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Slower write speeds, if that matters, would be a reason to pass on the 840, but endurance is not really an issue even for TLC.

People tested it already and even at 100GB/day, it's going to last 20+ years.

http://us.hardware.info/reviews/417...-with-final-conclusion-final-update-20-6-2013

In that price range, all of the ones listed will probably suit you well. Just get the cheapest one, especially for those use cases.
 
a123456 said:
Slower write speeds, if that matters, would be a reason to pass on the 840, but endurance is not really an issue even for TLC.

People tested it already and even at 100GB/day, it's going to last 20+ years.

http://us.hardware.info/reviews/417...-with-final-conclusion-final-update-20-6-2013
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No, it will most certainly NOT last 20+ years at 100GB per day.

You are confusing the results of that test with actual useful test results.

What is important for actual use of an SSD is how much you can write to it before the data retention time goes below a certain amount.

TLC flash should last about 1000 erase cycles before the data retention time goes below one year. For a 250GB SSD, that would be about 6 years at 100GB per day, provided the workload has very low write amplification. If the WA were higher (say 2 or 3 instead of 1), then it would be only 3 or 2 years at 100GB per day.

Of course, 100GB per day is an unusually heavy write workload. If we instead look at 20GB per day with a WA of 2 (which is still a rather heavy workload...at a guess I'd say more than 99% of consumers would be doing less than that), then a 250GB TLC drive should be good for 17 years before the data retention time falls below 1 year.
 
In the 176 days that I have been using my Intel 335 240GB SSD, I've written 590 GB. That's 3.3 GB per day. It's my Win7 boot disk, has the swap file on it, and has all my games on it. I think I probably do more on this PC than most consumers would on theirs.

You're not going to exceed 10GB a day, every day of the week, unless you're running a server of some kind (for which you shouldn't be using consumer SSDs), creating or editing large amounts of video content (again, shouldn't be using consumer SSDs for that) or downloading more movies than you could watch or fit on an SSD (use HDDs for that because playing media gets no benefit at all from SSDs).
 
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