256GB 830 or 240GB Agility3 as boot drive

daz.rathbone · 8 Jun 2012 at 12:36

Good afternoon all!

Currently my rig has a single Agility3 240GB SSD in there as it's one and lonely storage device. Pretty pleased with the speed of it, but haven't been bothered to bench it or anything like that.

Just got the 256GB Samsung 830 drive, and as it came with Ghost I was wondering if it was worth imaging the drives over and using the 830 as my boot device - the other drive, whichever it is, will just be used for storage/apps/games etc.

Is there much in it? Would it be worth the (minimal) effort to ghost the drive over for the gains? Most of my games and apps, like bf3 and cs6, run from the boot drive.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Justintime · 8 Jun 2012 at 12:38

830, better.

daz.rathbone · 8 Jun 2012 at 12:41

fast, to the point, thank you

shamus21 · 8 Jun 2012 at 15:37

Yes the Samsung 830 256GB would be the best option. I swapped out a 60GB vertex3 for a samsung 256GB and it`s a lot faster in use but boot up times are the same.

Nuclear Fusion · 10 Jun 2012 at 01:21

As mentioned the 830 would be better, Samsung are known for making some of the most reliable SSDs (along with Intel and Crucial etc).

Justintime · 10 Jun 2012 at 01:35

daz.rathbone said:
fast, to the point, thank you

No worries, good luck