What is the best price/performance 2.5" 9.5mm SSD right now?

Considering how fast the SSD technology is developing and how quickly prices have dropped, I am somewhat out of date on what the latest news is. What is the best price/peformance laptop SSD on the market at the moment. Might be looking for an upgrade some time soon as my current drive stutters quite a bit in farcry 2 which is very annoying!

Cheers all

 

Well, there's a lot of variables that need to be considered before that question can be accurately answered. Budget, capacity, and type of usage being the primary ones.

 

Anything between 120-200GB capacity and better read and write speeds than 150mb/s read and 100mb/s write and must absolutely not be Jmicron controlled as they are I believe the source of my stuttering problems. My first original drive died after a year then the second got replaced with a supertalent masterdrive GL drive which was newer and supposedly better. It is better but still has stuttering problems in certain games.

Usage - mainly basics(browsing, lots of multimedia etc) and gaming
- more rarely photoshopping

Budget - to be decided as of yet but I think no more than £150-200

hmm just realised my original 2 year warranty won't run out until 29th of this month - time for my third RMA lol

 

i would say kington is good and in ur budget.. but my recommendation of intel is too expensive... i'd say u need 250 minimum to get G2 160GB.. might get G1 for 200..

 

Yeah I was considering an intel SSD. £250 is still quite steep though. I may have to simply RMA my current drive hope for a better final replacement and then get a new drive in a year when a good performing SSD can be had at a lower price Thanks for your input peeps.

 

There's also the Seagate Hybrid XT-

It's no SSD, but just might do the trick.

 

Indeed. This question can only be answered generally since SSDs come with as much variety as any other storage components. Write/read speed are still typically the greatest variables up front. Then there are the controllers. After that, there's capacity and price. Still others consider manufacturers to be of significant importance.

If you really want to be particular, you can specify multi-level cell or single level cell (MLC vs SLC) SSD. Though SLC are so stratospherically expensive that few would even consider them as an option for the moment.

 

Kingston V+ 128GB (gen 2) outperforms Intel in many real life situations and is very fast with loading games.



http://techreport.com/articles.x/18864/6

 

that is crap. its showing x25-v to be faster than x25-m. I think anand has better tests.intel is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY faster than kingston and is the hottest ssd in the market.

 

It's a hand timed benchmark. Something that Anand rarely does. Here's another one:

You were right one year ago but a lot of things have changed. Kingston has released a second version of it's V+ and it seems to be faster than Intel most situations, as shown in the Techreport review and this review:
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