Help finding SSD's for my M1730!

Looking for a SSD as my primary drive. I'll use my 500GB as secondary drive. Been looking around newegg and other sites for SSD's. Looking to spend around 300-500 for one! Question! is that I know that Intel Drives are the best but they also come in at the worst price/per gig! So, anyone can suggest me the best bang for the buck SSD!

1. What's the difference between SLC and MLC?

2. I want the fastest read/write with the most gig that I can buy for around $300-500.( any real benchmark would help! )

3. I don't care too much about the brand name! As long as it's fast and has some sort of warranty.

4. I'd still perfer speed over room! But it can't be below 32GB's!

 

OCZ Vertex 128GB is one of the best right now for price-performance.
Read speeds at 200MB/s and writes at 160MB/s with 64MB cache and does not suffer from the stuttering of earlier OCZs with the Jmicron controller.

As for the differences in SLC and MLC this is covered here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=223173

 

no way get the samsung 256gb drive. its the best out there and the fastest for the price. i use them in my precision m6400.

 

oh another note get ride of the m1730. there no longer upgradeable to anything decent and there so hugh.

 

The Corsair P128 is out @ newegg for like $350 and is the same (rebranded) as the samsung 256GB (PB22-J).

It is a great drive. You could get the P256, but it is like $700.

 

I've had a Corsair P256 for about a month now and loving every minute of it. Even though it's above your price range, I'd highly recommend it. If you're set on a $500 max, the OCZ Vertex 128GB seems pretty hot right now.

 

I have two vertexs (30gb in a laptop and 120gb in desktop) and love them.

I must admit, I have not seen the samsung though.

 

Thanks all for the repiles! Looks like the P128 Corsair would be one that I would consider! As for getting rid of the M1730? I don't see nothing wrong with the machine. It's Dell's flagship of gaming before they bought AW out! I still have some decent room to play with my M1730, and once I maxxed it out I might move along to the newest tech! But so far I'm loving every bit of my rig!

 

The M1730 is still quite powerful, I can max almost every game out there still. I see an upgrade after some real changes happen to GPUs, but not until then.

 

agree'd 9800m gt is still in the top 5 SLI rigs

and Santa rosa is still #2

i highly reccomend the Vertex drives as i own one

 

i still say the precision m6400 i have will kill a m1730. i have the 3700 1gb memory and will kill two 8800 in sli.

 

If your seriously comparing M6400 with M1730, then fine, but remember Precision is a business line. You literally get ripped off for it. The setup in your sig currently costs £5,014 with basic warranty from dell; many times that of a typical M1730...(almost five times the money I paid for mine M1730.)

Having dual GPUs bring advantage in games scales well; in games like Crysis, 8800m GTX sli will slay the FX3700 by quite the margin.(2x96 shaders vs 128 shaders). The Quad may help on the M6400; but unlike XPS line, having extreme CPU comes with little rewards , you cannot overclock the QX9300.

8800m GTX is in the GeForce GPU line, there is no need to mess with moded driver, etc. It just works; where as you'd have to mod GeForce drivers on your Quadro card to fullu take advantage of Nv's game optimisation. It's ironic that you paid so much just to compare with M1730, cos AW's new M17x with overclockable QX9300 + dual 280m GTX looks like a bargain next to your M6400, and is certain to do better in games.

 

Couldn't agree more! Hope this doesn't create Dell Home products vs Business Products war!