Best 120 Gb SSD!!!

I am between one of these SSD hdd:

Corsair Performance 3: (i don't understand why is so expensive with that low read/write performance numbers)
Corsair CSSD-P3128GB2-BRKT Performance 3 Series 128GB Solid State Drive - Read 410MB/s, Write 210MB/s: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories


Corsair Force Series:
Corsair CSSD-F120GBGT-BK Force Series 120GB Solid State Drive: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories


Corsair Force 3 Series:
Corsair CSSD-F120GB3-BK Force Series 3 120GB Solid State Drive - Read 550MB/s, Write 510MB/s: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories


Crucial CTFDDAC128MAG:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/..._rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=230381187&pf_rd_i=602011031


Crucial M4 (the most choosen):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-CT1...JKZI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322421198&sr=8-1


Another Crucial M4 (where is the difference?):
Crucial m4 - solid state drive - 128 GB - SATA-600: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories


Samsung 470 (139 eur near from my house):
Samsung SSD 470 series 128GB SATA II 2.5 inch Solid State Hard Drive with 3 Year Warranty - Retail Pack: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories


OCZ Vertex 3:
OCZ Vertex 3 Series SATA III 2.5-inch Solid State Drive 120GB: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories


The most choosen is the Crucial M4 drive, but it has a low sequencial write speed at the tomshardware's test.
I will use it to storage OS on my M17X-R3 laptop with a 320 seagate hdd.

 

I Vertex 3 is going to be pretty fast from what I was told.

 

From my experience, avoid SandForce drives that are paired with Intel 25nm nand so: HyperX SSD, Vertex3, the Corsairs. Obviously this isn't always true, there are many users who have been fine.

SandForce paired with Tohiba 34nm nand are good for speed and bragging: Patriot WildFire, OCZ Max Iops and Mushkin Chronos Deluxe.

For decent real life use: Crucial M4. Intel 510

If I were you, I'd wait a few more days and see if you could get your hands on an OCZ Octane with a new Indilinx Controller. I've been following that drive for a while now and it seems that it is like an M4 with quick access speeds, but also has the speed advantages of the SandForce series. Win!

 

I have the Vertex 2. The Vertex 3 has my vote, personally.

 

Intel 510 while not on your list is my vote.

 

^^ Oh yeah that one too. Good drive.

 

Crucial M4

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i have hyperx 120gb ssd drive, its ok

 

Ok.
The best (in order): OCZ Octane, OCZ Vertex 3 (Max IOPS) and OCZ Vertex 3.
Anyways, when Octane appears, the others would be cheaper.

It's a little expensive for me

 

2 letters that you have to know about:

M4

don't look any further. Don't let the fast sequential read and write numbers fool you on those other drives. Most of the time, you aren't doing things sequentially. The M4 is as fast or faster in the non-sequential work...and its very low maintenance and stable

 

Dude, you give sound advice BUT:

"M4" is one letter one number...

 

hahahaha...you're right. Close enough i guess

 

From what I've been reading, the new Samsung 830 series SSD is supposed to be awesome! For reference, check out Newegg.com - SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC128N/AM 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Notebook Upgrade Kit

Also:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4863/the-samsung-ssd-830-review

 

^^THIS. OCZ Octane is looking very promising. Its interesting that they have decided to go with the newest Indilinx Controller in the Octane.

What's even more interesting is that Intel has decided to go with Sandforce in their next gen SSD's

hmmmmmmmmm

 

+1 to the Crucial M4

 

If you can afford the Vertex 3 Max IOPS drive, the 120GB is a great drive and performs as well as a Vertex 3 240GB. I havent had a single problem with mine since I bought it. I've heard great things about the M4's as well, but can only chime in from personal experience.

 

I have the HyperX drive and its stupid fast. Right now its hard to go wrong with any of the drives and most people will recommend what they know or are using now.

Good Luck

 

Finally I have decided to go for a M4 SSD drive.

Slower, but reliable.

(and it's the most choosen option in NBR )


In Crucial's forums somebody recommends to flash the drive to the last firmware version because it increases the speed in several scenarios, so I will do that on the first.


Thanks to all for your answers

 

It should come with the 0009 firmware which is the latest and best, and it's not slower at all, it's blazing fast and actually stays true to its promised speeds.

 

good choice good choice

 

Crucial m4 is a good ssd for the price. Unfortunately mine died after 3 mons. But crucial replaced it fast. I had to pay for the shipping back to crucial though

If you will use firmware 009, just be aware it has some issues with ahci. I had some freezing problem in ahci using 009. Switching to raid though solved the problem for me; and its faster than ahci set up

 

don't you lose trim support with raid?

 

Says the dude with x2 512GB M4s in RAID 0!

 

I have mine in Raid mode also...runs fast.

Just a FYI for anyone curious about the M4...I'm comparing my results to my neighbor who just raid 0'ed 2 x 60gig vertex 3's

His sequential reads and writes are insanely fast...900 read and around 600 write.However, all the non sequential activity (where the user spends most of his/her time) is on par or just a tad slower than mine.

So the M4 is definitely not slow. Don't get tricked by those high sequential read/write numbers of the other drives. The M4 is actually quite fast, and delivers on advertised numbers

 

this is what i get on my current rig. Gonna try it again when my M17x R3 finally arrived.

But yeah TRIM is not supported in current driver but the new soon to be released intel RST will have it so I will wait for that. As of now all my download and media files are in the mechanical drive so it wont be much of a problem (I hope).

 

Remember RAID doesn't support the Trim command at the moment so be careful with drive degradation. The upcoming version of Intel Rapid Storage should provide the Trim driver for RAIDed drives.

Edit: dragon beat me to it

 

Coming from another forum it seems the M4 is the most well respected. It seems to have the reliability (so far) compared to the others and the latest firmware puts the speeds up there with the fastest.
I too am deciding myself which to get....

 

I'm watching my drive life via :

SSD life - tool for solid state drives health and endurance monitoring

And right now, it says i have 8 yrs and 9 months left at current usage...I've been playing tons of skyrim etc...and its all on my SSD. I'm not worried

SICK!!

 

How come my trim is enabled and am running on raid? windows 7 supports trim?
Right?

 

maybe he meant really raiding your drives like with 2 SSDs

 

Oh right, no Trim for RAID arrays then (yet) -_- DUHHH

So a single SSD on a RAID controller will have Trim

Guys, please use the correct terminology.

I wish I could afford another Crucial M4, just too darn expensive. Maybe I should do what that Chinese kid did, sell one of my kidneys...

 

you know...it would be a lot less painful to just save a few bucks here and a few bucks there