Msi gt70 0nc

Hey I'm looking to get a SSD for my MSI and I asked in that group but no one has answered me. I'm looking for somewhere around 120 gbs for around 100$. Any recommendations. I prefer 6gb/s. Looking for long term SSD

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Newegg.com - Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

128GB, ~$110, and is very reliable. I'd only consider Crucial, Plextor, Intel, or Samsung for a SSD, and nobody else, **especially** OCZ. Just don't consider any Sandforce drives by the "me-too" OEMs and you'll be fine, though drives from Plextor, Intel, and Samsung will cost more for the better reliability.

 

Long term SSD?

Highly DO NOT recommend anything smaller than a 240GB (Intel, Sandisk Extreme, Plextor M5 Pro) or 256GB or 512GB (M4) with fully/optimized controller/channel interleaved/nand populated SSD...

Anything else is like putting a Formula One sticker on your 1981 Chevette (you're fooling yourself more than you're fooling anyone else).

I would also recommend to also partition whichever SSD you get to at least 20% less capacity than you bought - this will ensure that you'll get the highest sustained performance (day in and day out) and also have the lowest write amplification (WA) and fastest GC (garbage collection) possible.

Hope this helps.

Good luck.

 

I assume the big names like Intel, Kingston, Patriot, PNY are OK for sandforce. Their performance is so amazing you can't say no

 

Patriot and PNY are actually not "big" names in the SSD space, more like "me-too!" Sandforce-based drives.

The main, reliable players in the game are Crucial, Plextor, Intel, and Samsung. For a me-too that gets a lot of good press, I'd say that Corsair's Force GT series is doing pretty well too (according to NEwegg reviews).

IMO, the read/write speeds of the SSD don't really matter to the average user. Be it 270/250-something or 550/500-something, what really counts the majority of the time is random access/seek time, which is on the order of <5ms for pretty much all the SSDs on the market, with most being ~1ms. Between my Intel 330 (500MB/s read, 450MB/s write) and Intel 320 (270MB/s read, 220MB/s write), I don't feel any subjective difference.