HI, first let me say I'm a Samsung EVO fan boy. I been using a 512GB EVO for the past year and it's been great. I respect Samsung on how they can compete with more expensive drives at a much lower price points. However this performance increase might be limited to benchmarking tools. (Most SSD articles don't point this out) I don't like how they use RAM to boost it's performance. It's kind of misleading of the drive true performance and could cause data lost in event of a power distribution with RAPID mode enable. For this reason I don't think an EVO should be used as a main OS drive. Also, I can get any SSD drive to perform like an EVO by using ramdisk or similar software SSD-RAM based solution that also provides better customization.
Back on point, are they any 256GB SSD drive that performs as well as the EVO without the RAPID mode gimmick for my OS drive? I'm looking to pay anywhere from 200-300. Is that an unrealistic price range? Thanks.
PS. I might be completed wrong with my analysis. If I am please correct me so I can be a better consumer! Thanks.
David
Back on point, are they any 256GB SSD drive that performs as well as the EVO without the RAPID mode gimmick for my OS drive? I'm looking to pay anywhere from 200-300. Is that an unrealistic price range? Thanks.
PS. I might be completed wrong with my analysis. If I am please correct me so I can be a better consumer! Thanks.
David