New Laptop - SSD Recommendation

I'm trying to decide between the Seagate 600 Pro versus the Samsung 840 Pro. I was also looking at the Crucial M500 but apparently that is far behind in terms of performance when compared to the Samsung 840 Pro.

Can someone tell me the pros/cons of going with one versus the other? Cost is not a factor. I'm going to purchase the 480/512 GB drive.

Lastly Amazon has this Seagate SSD for sale. I can't tell if this is the regular Seagate 600 or the Seagate 600 Pro. If it's NOT the 600 Pro where can I buy the 600 Pro?

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide....

 

Samsung has a longer track record in the SSD business than Seagate, which alone would be my reason to go with the 840 Pro over the 600 / 600 Pro. That, and *everything* in a Samsung SSD is made and tested I -house, a big plus for reliability.

 

Second the Samsung 840 Pro. Considered one of the best on the market for overall performance as well as reliability. Most OEM SSDs are made by Samsung. I haven't come across many complaints.

 

AnandTech | The Seagate 600 & 600 Pro SSD Review after reading this and the above 2 posts Samsung FTW!

 

I'm actually reading that review right now but I'm a little confused.....according to the charts the read/write performance of the 400GB 600 Pro seems to be better than that of the 840 Pro. Or was I misreading those charts?

In general which has the better Read/Write speeds?

 

Read and write speeds are pretty inconsequential when you consider buying an SSD (this is like straight-line speed for a car). Almost all SSDs hit pretty good numbers. What is important is how the SSD would handle tiny bits of DATA (cornering, acceleration,etc for a car). How often would you write data onto a drive in the course of the lifetime of the SSD? If you were in an enterprise situation, things would be different. But right now, you should look at the other charts on 4K random read, write, etc. Most of the time, your SSD would handle small bits of DATA and some SSDs fail in doing a good job at this. The 840 Pro is consistently near the top of all the test charts that are considered to be important to determine the worthiness of an SSD. Hence......

 

Gotcha thanks for breaking it down.

 

That same AnandTech review says this:

I would have no problem owning an 840 Pro. As a fresh drive it is the king. But it isn't without it's poor test results when it's not fresh, from that same review the "Destroyer" and "Steady State" mixed read/write testing on [H]ardOCP. It does very well with "Drives with Data Testing" on TweakTown

HARDOCP - Iometer & Steady State Testing - Seagate 600 and 600 Pro SSD Review

SanDisk Extreme II 480GB SSD Review - Benchmarks - PCMark Vantage - Drives with Data Testing :: TweakTown

The M500 960GB is in a class by itself size/price/performance, enterprise features. $200. cheaper than the MyDigitalSSD BP4 960GB and outperforms it (limited reviews of BP4). M500 does well in "Steady State" testing read/write mix (480GB tested).

MyDigitalSSD BP4 960GB SSD Review - Benchmarks - PCMark Vantage - Drives with Data Testing :: TweakTown

HARDOCP - Iometer & Steady State Testing - Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review

I like seeing all the benchmarks on empty drives. But that brand new SSD won't be new for long. It's performance will change. How it performs used seems more important to me.