OCZ Agility 3 or Crucial M4

lewis2701 · 27 Mar 2012 at 18:26

Which is faster?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £119.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) £99.98
Total : £229.57 (includes shipping : £8.00).

dannyboy101 · 27 Mar 2012 at 19:21

alieshia · 27 Mar 2012 at 19:30

i was suggested the M4 by many on here and its amazing i can shut down and reboot my system in a few seconds its brilliant. i used to hate shutting down my old build and would leave it running for days because it would hiccup and take forever this though is amazing

Avathar77 · 27 Mar 2012 at 19:33

M4 all the way

OrWolf · 27 Mar 2012 at 19:38

dannyboy101 said:
M4

+1

Installed mine at the weekend and win7 is very perky indeed.

lewis2701 · 27 Mar 2012 at 19:51

Okay, what about;

YOUR BASKET
1 x OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (VTX3-25SAT3-120G) £119.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £119.99
Total : £249.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Avathar77 · 27 Mar 2012 at 19:59

Still M4 All the way

Crucial has UK based warranty and there service is second to non!(no idea about OCZ though!)

kiel367 · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:29

lewis2701 · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:33

Okay cheers. My understanding of setting them up is; Backup HDD to external drive, then unplug HDD. Plug in SSD and install windows onto that, then once installed onto SSD, plug in HDD and format it. Also set the thing in the bios to AHCI and turn off auto defrag?

stulid · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:36

Running the WEI should disable the defrag for you

but the above sound right, do the AHCI before the install.

beejjacobs · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:37

lewis2701 said:
Okay cheers. My understanding of setting them up is; Backup HDD to external drive, then unplug HDD. Plug in SSD and install windows onto that, then once installed onto SSD, plug in HDD and format it. Also set the thing in the bios to AHCI and turn off auto defrag?

Set it to AHCI before installing windows on the SSD. Other than that, correct. Windows 7 should pick up that its an SSD and turn everything off that it needs to, but worth a check

EDIT: also be sure to update the firmware (best to do it before you install on it)
http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx

Ginger-Menace · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:38

M4 theres loads of ssd set up guides on the web some simple some hard depends on what you use it for

lewis2701 · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:09

Thanks, one quick question. In GB terms how big is W7?

stulid · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:12

lewis2701 said:
Thanks, one quick question. In GB terms how big is W7?

About 16GB±

arekgreenman888 · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:18

m4 KING

lewis2701 · 28 Mar 2012 at 21:22

Another quick question; when I backup my current 1TB HDD to then format the 1TB drive will I then also need to delete all windows files from the stuff that I backed up?

opstrat · 28 Mar 2012 at 21:58

lewis2701 said:
Another quick question; when I backup my current 1TB HDD to then format the 1TB drive will I then also need to delete all windows files from the stuff that I backed up?

no just right click format job done.

exactly what i done, dc my hdd plug in the ssd install windows reconect hdd, dont worry about ahci mode, its only if u want to hot swap ur ssd.

beejjacobs · 28 Mar 2012 at 22:14

lewis2701 said:
Another quick question; when I backup my current 1TB HDD to then format the 1TB drive will I then also need to delete all windows files from the stuff that I backed up?

Just back up the files rather than the install, unless theres some program files you need to keep. But it wont be an issue if you copy it all.

vicarious81 · 29 Mar 2012 at 17:09

Loving my M4 so far.

8 second bootups, incredible load times in games as well as instant loading of applications.

Rusty0611 · 29 Mar 2012 at 17:14