Best SSDs For The Money: August 2012 (Archive)

[TeamBLU 4K]

I like the speeds of the ADATA sp920 1024gb, but can't find it or the 512gb for that matter anywhere. When is this being released?

 

[Amdlova]

i have that sandisk 64gb usb 3.0! my eyes shine when i put the pendrive on pc 😀 my friends go crazy when see it a 200mb/s

 

[Onus]

I don't suggest putting SSDs in RAID0. You're getting negligible speed improvements, and adding another point of failure.

 

[TeamBLU 4K]

What do you mean negligible speed improvements with SSDs in RAID 0??
All test reviews I've read have indicated almost double speeds with 2 SSDs in RAID0.
Your own review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-13.html

 

[RedJaron]

What do you mean negligible speed improvements with SSDs in RAID 0??
All test reviews I've read have indicated almost double speeds with 2 SSDs in RAID0.
Your own review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-13.html

Perhaps you should read that conclusion page again. It states very clearly that in most real-world scenarios a single drive will serve up the same performance as the RAID from the user's experience. The RAID will win out in benchmarks and extremely demanding situations, but how likely are those to occur for the typical computer user, even the typical tech enthusiast?

A RAID typically costs more money and introduces more potential problem points, not least of which is the whole array going down due to a single drive failure. If you're asking whether or not a RAID is right for you, the answer is almost always "no." The people who really need them don't need to ask the question, they already know the answer.

 

[Onus]

Exactly. Benchmark differences, no matter how massive, if not translated into the User Experience, are meaningless.
There are of course special cases, such as the FCAT frame-pacing tests that required incredible recording speed. For now, it may still be the only way to reach desired capacity within budget. Other than that, the risks far outweigh the rewards.

 

[kamhagh]

getting an ssd was the first upgrade i did to me pc 😀 and haven't upgraded till now 😀!
im planning to get p8z77-v but ssd is so awesome ! amazing 😀 my hdd didnt make any noise and without caring about sound, i made an extremely quiet sound, when everything is at max the only loudest sound is my GPU ! making buzz noises ( not fan, its not fan noise) but still it made my boot times Extremly low ! and my os smoothly ! and awesome its so fun ! world of warcraft starts 2-3 seconds faster and when i click characters it used to freez for 0.1 seconds than show my char but now, theres no lag and also it loads so faster 😀 btw i made a few changes to setting which guess made my ssd slower :O and load times slower !

i got an intel 520 120GB !

 

[tmanXX]

Under the 256GB, you start off with the 250GB Samsung Evo but start off with "An Alternate Option"
This appears to just be a copy and paste issue from last month cover point. The
Crucial m500 is no longer listed above it.

 

[logainofhades]

I hate to break it to you, but the Crucial M500 480gb M-sata is pretty common to. Your comment about the Mushkin is just wrong. M500 costs a bit less too.

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&f=7&S=400000,6000000&sort=a10

 

[cryan]

why is the intel 530 not in any of the charts?

I removed the 530. I can only keep so many drives in here at one time.

Regards,
Christopher Ryan

 

[cryan]

I hate to break it to you, but the Crucial M500 480gb M-sata is pretty common to. Your comment about the Mushkin is just wrong. M500 costs a bit less too.

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&f=7&S=400000,6000000&sort=a10

You're right, of course. The templates we use are pretty cumbersome to edit, and that one was pretty old. Of course, now there's plenty of mSATA and progressively more M.2, and there's no technical limitation to capacity up to 1 TB for mSATA. M.2 in the 22110 size could probably do 2TB if anyone cared to make one.

Regards,
Christopher Ryan