Which SSD Should i buy?

Exoon · 16 Feb 2011 at 12:37

I just bought a new Mobo last night and going to be buying a SSD Next week.

I would like at least 120GB. Which one would you recommend?

I have this board: Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge)

Thanks

Philtor · 16 Feb 2011 at 14:11

I would go for the Crucial C300 to take advantage of the SATA 6 Gbps ports on your board. What's your budget by the way? This one would be ideal although may be too expensive perhaps.

rgallie · 16 Feb 2011 at 14:16

Hold out for the next gen which i believe is starting to come out next month although I may be wrong

Exoon · 17 Feb 2011 at 12:29

philtorrens said:
I would go for the Crucial C300 to take advantage of the SATA 6 Gbps ports on your board. What's your budget by the way? This one would be ideal although may be too expensive perhaps.

Have been looking at this HDD.

Was abit over budget but would like to get the 6GB/s so might have to go over budget.

joeyjojo · 17 Feb 2011 at 16:43

rgallie said:
Hold out for the next gen which i believe is starting to come out next month although I may be wrong

C400 next month yep.

Exoon · 18 Feb 2011 at 16:40

I ordered the C300.

I was just wondering, Which port should i plug it in when it arrives. My mobo has some Marvel ports but not sure what they are. Should a SSD go in there?

Destroyer^ · 18 Feb 2011 at 16:53

ive heard that the sata 2 ports 0 and 1 arnt effected .. try to plug it into a sata 3 ports.. they should be the grey ones on your mobo.. marvell are the dark blue ones

chaparral · 18 Feb 2011 at 17:53

Exoon said:
I ordered the C300.

I was just wondering, Which port should i plug it in when it arrives. My mobo has some Marvel ports but not sure what they are. Should a SSD go in there?

Don't use the marvel 6Gbps sata ports as there much slower then the intel 6 Gbps ports

My intel 6 Gbps ports on my asrock board are white.......
The ones on your asus motherboard maybe a different colour to mine..

Philtor · 18 Feb 2011 at 17:55

Exoon said:
I was just wondering, Which port should i plug it in when it arrives.

Check you Motherboard manual to see which ports are which. You want to check which ports on your board provide the SATA 6Gb/s speed and use them. If you you have Intel ones then stick with them. Then keep your DVD Burner and normal HDD (if your going to be using one) on the other controller (different coloured ports).

Exoon · 18 Feb 2011 at 18:17

I have two sets, The marvel are 6gb/s aswell.

Ill stick them in the normal ports.

Thanks for the advice!

Philtor · 18 Feb 2011 at 18:33

Well don't panic if you only have a Marvel controller. A SSD running on SATA III is very fast so even if you don't get the full 6Gb/s speed you are still going to be running faster than SATA II. You can always stick a SATA III PCIe card in later on such as the HighPoint Rocket but im sure you won't need to.