SSD for Clevo P650SE

Hello, i will buy this week a clevo p650Se and i was wondering which is the best ssd in price/quality range with 250gb?

I was thinking between samaung evo 840 or crucial mx100, what do you guys think?

 

Id recommend the mx100. Some people have had issues with the 840 evo drives.


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Yeah, not only would I avoid EVO's, I would avoid any TLC drives right now.

See:
Samsung 840 EVO read speed drops on old-written data in the drive - Page 152


Even five months later since gino074 first posted about the issue (and even after I initially noticed it a year ago but put it down to 'typical Samsung lagginess' after I couldn't return the 1TB EVO's I had bought - past their return windows) people still see broken drives.


See:
Read speeds dropping dramatically on older files; benchmarks needed to confirm affected SSDs


The above link has a good utility for testing for this read degradation of old files.

The MX100 or any of the 'Pro' models are the recommended choices right now (Samsung 850 Pro or SanDisk Extreme Pro - 512GB or larger).

 

Thank you for the quick answers. I'll probably pass on the 840 EVO then.

 

I would suggest the Sandisk Extreme II/Extreme Pro.. See if you can get them from an Amazon warehouse deal otherwise, if your'e budget is limited, Crucial MX100 is your best bet.. Don't get the 840 Evo or any TLC junk SSD's...

 

The price on those are a bit higher (here in Portugal at least)

Sandisk Extreme II 240GB is ~170€
Sandisk Extreme Pro 240GB is ~145€
Crucial MX100 256GB is ~100€

For the price on the sandisks, wouldn't it be better to buy Micron M600 M.2 SATA 256GB (price is ~140€

Thanks for the answer.

 

Not in my opinion. And I love Micron drives and own many of them.

Extreme Pro is a proven, well-tested drive which takes one of the top spots in every single test. M600 is a very new offering and might or might not be loaded with issues. The previous (M500/M550) generation was known to run quite warm in mSATA format, and I'd be quite concerned about that trend continuing into M600 in the M.2 guise.

M.2 in general is not where it needs to be for mainstream use. Not yet.

My $0.02 only...

 

And considering the price difference, would you still go for the sandisks? Or is the crucial/sandisk difference not worth the money?

 

If I were building a system that I was going to use for the next few years, I'd go with SanDisk.

If I were simply finishing a machine that was going for a re-sale, Crucial would be more than good enough.

Your money, your call.

 

I would take Sandisk anytime over Micron or Crucial.. Their drives are so reliable, have high performance and long warranty... Also Crucial MX100's have been getting some weird problems recently so I'm a bit hesistant to recommend them.. Also surprised that Extreme II price is more then Extreme Pro but seems to be the trend from what I'm seeing and it's weird... Get the Extreme Pro

 

Samsung EVO or PRO ,These peeps aren't objective, they fix the problems, My EVO is so fast I never noticed the problem.

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 Shizuku Edition x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : Crystal Dew World
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 2102.713 MB/s
Sequential Write : 1744.796 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 3039.072 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 2247.511 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 228.972 MB/s [ 55901.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 107.427 MB/s [ 26227.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 225.530 MB/s [ 55061.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 105.950 MB/s [ 25866.7 IOPS]

Test : 100 MB [C: 20.0% (41.9/209.1 GB)] (x3)
Date : 2015/01/12 11:24:12
OS : Windows 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)

Post your Crystal Disk Marks.

Cheers
3Fees

 

^^^^^^^^

That's with the RAPID turned on, correct? You're benchmarking your RAM as a part of equation. These speeds are above anything *any* SATA III drive is capable of regardless of the system.

Not for nothing, I'd hardly call posting these "turbo'd" results anything close to being objective.

Your EVO works great. Good for you.

There's quite a few folks both here and on overclock forum who had opposing experiences.