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jongri :
I can't imagine why anyone would buy SATA 3 SSD under 1TB & find it harder to believe
anyone wouldn't go w/ the best SATA3 SSD Samsung 850 Pro &/or at least 2nd best
850 Evo SSD?
SATA drives have reached a point, where the real world, everyday, use, there isn't really any noticeable difference, in performance. A few seconds faster service time, isn't worth the added cost, for 99%+ of all users. I also own an 850 evo, but never recommend it, anymore, due to price. Crucial MX300 has been my go to, for SSD recommendations, lately.
I agree, long before Samsung was popular in the SSD market, 128-256GB Crucial m4 SSD's dominated, recall that many had these, even though SATA-3, writes were about half of reads. The 128GB version was the first SSD I purchased in 2012, followed by a 180GB Intel 330 that many termed 'budget, both are well and kicking as strong as ever. Later on I would go to purchase two 256GB Crucial M550's, one a mSATA & a bit more pricey, a huge mistake because had to remove from that port, place in a SYBA 2.5" open enclosure & then in a Rosewill 3.5" to 2.5" adapter with a fan blowing direct on it to keep it cool (am on it now), at times would jump to 70C prior. Benchmarks varies. The other was the traditional 2.5" model, which runs & benches well & consistent. So in trying to use a mSATA port that I felt to be a feature to save a SATA port, shot myself in the foot, by the time all was said & done, could had purchased a pair of the 2.5" Crucial M550's, plus a 120GB Samsung 840 EVO at that time.
One place where Crucial has improved is including their Storage Executive, even for Linux users (none of the rest provides Linux tools). that covers many new & not too dated models, including the ones I have, as well as the M500 series.
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-storage-executive
Hopefully this is great for Crucial, did try their version of overprovisioning, which works quite different from that of Samsung, actually taking the last empty Data partition, whereas Samsung uses the unallocated space. Haven't tried the Momentum Cache yet, since both drives are on computers with only 12GB RAM, don't want to let go of 25% for the purpose. On my 32GB equipped systems, wouldn't have an issue with this.
All in all (except for Linux users), the Crucial Storage Executive is still lagging behind Intel's SSD Toolbox & Samsung Magician, though will improve over time.
Hopefully Mushkin & other entry level models will develop similar tools, these are valuable in not only managing a SSD, also to monitor & report the health. One advantage that Mushkin appears to have is inbuilt overprovisioning, when that say 240GB, there's a hidden 10-16GB that's inaccessible, though that's not cast into stone, just going by the unusual sizes. We usually don't see 240GB SSD's, so that could be the giveaway of extra NAND cells that can't be written to.
Really, one can really awaken a slow computer with a 5400 rpm HDD that has at best, a 16MB cache, for $69.99 plus shipping & taxes, if applicable. There are millions of low cost Windows 7 computers out there that'll benefit, a few of which are SATA-2 & may have DDR2 RAM. This is the best 'bang' for that price as it comes.
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