Buying cheap High Quality SSD

[CoolaxGaming]

Hello,

Before we begin, my specs are on my signature (Bottom Right of this post)

So, I have a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD, the hdd is the cheapest 1 TB HDD and the worst on the market.
So, I had a great idea, why not buy an SSD, and use the HDD for games.
I am planning to buy a 480 gb ssd, why 480, I use a lot of softwares and right now my softwares take up 300 GB.....

So heres the thing, I hate Intel, but damn there Intels SSD's are awesome.
Please Suggest me SSD's which are -
1. Good for Heavy Coding and browsing
2. About 500 MBPS Read and Write
3. 480 GB a must
4. About $200 (I am buying during Black Friday, any store possible)

So the two SSD's I have found and may buy are -

1. AMD Radeon R7 SSD 480GB (Highest Read/Write Speeds I have ever seen) I bit expensive though ($279.99)
2. Intel 730 SERIES (Good for long term) A but cheaper ($229.99)
Please suggest me more along these guidelines....

Plus do oyu think, these prices will go down during Black Friday?

 

[i7Baby]

Samsung 840 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147249

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Read/write speeds can mostly be ignored; almost all SSDs max out the bus with compressible data. IOPS, no major reliability issues, and cost are the only things I'd care about.

I'd grab a 512GB Crucial MX100 for $203: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct512mx100ssd1

 

[CoolaxGaming]

Samsung 840 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147249

Dang, on a performence perspective, the Samsung came in Very Good, Same with intel, AMD got excellent, do you think they are actually reliable?

 

[i7Baby]

I haven't seen problems with any SSD since they first came out.

 

[geofelt]

Samsung and Intel make their own parts and can do a better job of validation.
Early on, they were more reliable.
http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-rates-7.html
Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
For that, the response times of current SSD's are remarkably similar. And quick. They will be 50X faster than a hard drive.
In sequential operations, they will be 2x faster than a hard drive, perhaps 3x if you have a sata3 interface.
Larger SSD's are preferable. They have more nand chips that can be accessed in parallel. Sort of an internal raid-0 if you will.
Also, a SSD will slow down as it approaches full. That is because it will have a harder time finding free nand blocks to do an update without a read/write operation.

 

[CoolaxGaming]

Samsung and Intel make their own parts and can do a better job of validation.
Early on, they were more reliable.
http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-rates-7.html
Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
For that, the response times of current SSD's are remarkably similar. And quick. They will be 50X faster than a hard drive.
In sequential operations, they will be 2x faster than a hard drive, perhaps 3x if you have a sata3 interface.
Larger SSD's are preferable. They have more nand chips that can be accessed in parallel. Sort of an internal raid-0 if you will.
Also, a SSD will slow down as it approaches full. That is because it will have a harder time finding free nand blocks to do an update without a read/write operation.

Isint OCZ (AMD's SSD partner) owned by Toshiba?
So technically its there own...

 

[CoolaxGaming]

I am leaning towards the Samsung and the AMD one, do you think they will lower im price during Black Driday>