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Hello, I am likely going to purchase a Gigabyte P35K when it is released in the US (early September?) and am currently debating how should upgrade the storage. I am mainly deciding whether I want a full size SSD (Samsung 840 Evo 250gb) or an mSata SSD (Crucial M4 256gb). Here are the two potential configs:
Storage bay: Samsung 840 Evo (OS drive)
Optical Bay: Storage drive (OEM HDD that ships with notebook)
mSata (1): none
mSata (2): none
or
Storage bay: Storage drive (OEM HDD that ships with notebook)
Optical Bay: Optical drive
mSata (1): Crucial m4 (OS drive)
mSata (2): none
I am mainly interested in performance, so I would assume the Samsung SSD would do better here? But there is also potential to upgrade the mSata setup to a RAID 0 config, which would presumably blow the 840 Evo out of the water(?). I'm not too concerned about losing the optical drive in the first setup, though I suppose it would be nice to have around. Price is not really a concern here, as the Samsung and Crucial drives are priced very similarly. I will be running Windows 8 as my OS.
If you have any insight into this, please let me know!
Thanks.
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If price really is not a concern, then a larger than a 250GB EVO SSD is the first choice. The 250GB EVO has write latency issues.that the 120-128GB 840, 840 Pro and PM841 have. The latency issues aren't as bad on the 750GB model. It also gets hotter, smaller PCB.
Latency
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD Review - Benchmarks - AIDA64 Random Access Time | TweakTown
Heat
Samsung 840 EVO 750GB SSD Review - Benchmarks - Power and Thermal Testing | TweakTown
Apparently, Samsung emphasized low queue depth performance with the EVO. That's great for true performance not benchmarks. Hopefully, it will perform better in "Steady State" testing, (THE real world performance metric), than the 840 and 840 Pro did. Come on [H}ardOCP get testing.
Again if price is really not a concern, if you go the mSATA route, the Crucial M500 480GB will be available, hopefully soon. This should perform better than the M4. Avoid the M500 240GB.
RAID0 will give higher sequential performance, that's the apparent "blowing out of the water", but lower random read/write performance at low queue depths. A SSD is too fast to reach high queue depths where RAID0 might be beneficial. An OS is small. low queue depth random reads and writes.
"RAID 0: Great For Benchmarks, Not So Much In The Real World"
RAID 0: Great For Benchmarks, Not So Much In The Real World - One SSD Vs. Two In RAID: Which Is Better?
mSata vs SSD Gigabyte P35K
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by o_jake, Aug 21, 2013.
