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Help decide between ssd's?

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Blak0ut

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I wasn't sure where to post this so if needed please move. Thanks!

So I need a little help in choosing between 2 solid state drives. I'm looking in getting either the 256gb m4 or the 240gb force gt. I would of gone with the crucial but I was reading how corsair came out with a new firmware that made it more of a solid drive.

Thanks in advance!!!
 
I know in general people here have been saying the 256GB M4 over any SF based drive. I haven't been browsing this section much lately, so I do not know if that tone has changed since all the firmware updates. The Intel 520 maybe something to look at too.
 
Of those two I'd take the Crucial M4 just because it has the longer track record. The Force GT is faster in benchmarks, but you won't see that difference in real-world use. Crucial has had firmware bugs like everyone else, but they do have a history of good and responsive customer service (not saying Corsair doesn't).
 
The place to post it would have been in the Data Storage Systems forum.

As everyone has said, most people love the M4 and it has a track record. I got the Force GT for my laptop though, not a single problem so far, and very happy with it.
 
Everyone loves the M4, but I went with the Corsair Performance Pro (256GB):

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Corsair/Performance_Pro_256_GB_SSD/

"It looks like Corsair did some magic tweaks to the Marvell controller's firmware, as their Performance Pro 256 GB is the fastest SSD we tested so far. It even beats big-name Sandforce SF-228x drives like the Kingston HyperX 240 GB and OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB. We suspect that Corsair did something unique to their drive, because Crucial's M4, which uses the same controller, and should thus deliver very similar performance, ended up being 10% slower than the Corsair Performance Pro."


Of course, they'll all whip your HDD's butt...so you can't lose. :)
 
awesome! thanks for all the replies and sorry about posting in the wrong section.

it seems to be that the m4 is still the better choice. i just read something how the crucial drive will slow down once it starts to get full? is something i should worry about?
im trying to slowly convert everything to a SSD, as of right now my 64gb ssd + 2tb raid 0 im only using about 300gb and most of it is games i dont play anymore.

i would totally go with a intel ssd, but they are out of my price range. i want to keep it at about $350.

what do you guys think about getting 2 120gb drives and doing a raid 0 setup?
 
Blak0ut said:
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what do you guys think about getting 2 120gb drives and doing a raid 0 setup?
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It will definitely be faster...as seen in "The CrystalDiskMark SSD bench thread" at O C .net

...but it will also be twice as susceptible to failure. Of course, that is always the case with RAID 0. I'm not sure why the 'R' is in RAID 0 because there is nothing redundant about it. :) Just don't keep anything important (e.g., data) on the array and you'll be fine.
 
Scuba Steve in VA said:
It will definitely be faster...as seen in "The CrystalDiskMark SSD bench thread" at O C .net

...but it will also be twice as susceptible to failure. Of course, that is always the case with RAID 0. I'm not sure why the 'R' is in RAID 0 because there is nothing redundant about it. :) Just don't keep anything important (e.g., data) on the array and you'll be fine.
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thats a good one.. lol..

but maybe ill try out the raid 0 set up and keep a platter drive. now with raid i lose the support of trim, is there a way around this or something i can use that is equivalent?
 
Blak0ut said:
what do you guys think about getting 2 120gb drives and doing a raid 0 setup?
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Honestly, I don't see the benefit for SSDs. It makes sense for hard drives, but SSDs are so much faster at both sequential and random reads that it kind of eliminates the performance benefit of RAID. Sure 800 MB/s (or whatever it would be) sounds good, but it really isn't going to make that much real world difference, and the downside is that you double your risk of failure. Plus larger capacity SSDs are normally faster than the smaller ones, because they have more channels, so that mitigates the performance benefits even more.
 
Forceman said:
Honestly, I don't see the benefit for SSDs. It makes sense for hard drives, but SSDs are so much faster at both sequential and random reads that it kind of eliminates the performance benefit of RAID. Sure 800 MB/s (or whatever it would be) sounds good, but it really isn't going to make that much real world difference, and the downside is that you double your risk of failure. Plus larger capacity SSDs are normally faster than the smaller ones, because they have more channels, so that mitigates the performance benefits even more.
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Indeed, I forgot who did the review, but they were talking about SSD's over all, and how some in the line up they tested showed what looked like huge gains over another, but in real world you could not even tell. Maybe if you have an app or use that can make use of those kinds of throughput you will notice it, but I am very doubtful there are many uses for most users that will notice 500MB/s vs 800MB/s.
 
nice!

even better im pretty sure my gf bought me the force gt for valentines. i went to go double check it on my wishlist on amazon and it said "someone might of bought this" pop up.
now should i go ahead and order a second? lol

and thanks again for everyone answering my questions!
 
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