Please recommend a 512GB SSD for me

Two performance and price ways to go really are, m4 512gb pricing is pretty good, or just get 2x 256gb Samsung 830's, the 830 pricing is TOOO good to ignore for an excellent and very fast drive. You could whack them together in raid 0 for better sequentials but in most cases the performance difference isn't huge.

You can simply group them together in windows as one drive if you wanted/needed to have them work like that or separate out some stuff. Its slightly faster to have windows/pagefile on one drive and games on the other.
 
Thanks for the reply :)

So do you mean these drives?

Crucial RealSSD M4 512GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT512M4SSD2)

Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256D/EU)

It looks like the read speed of the Samsung is a little slower than that of the crucial but the write speed is faster on the samsung than the Crucial.

Do you know which is the newer drive?

2 Samsungs (total 512 GB) would cost £479.98 but one 512 GB Crucial costs £314.98. Is the Samsung really that much better than the crucial to justify this price difference?
 
They are the same drive the only difference is the accessories you get with either the desktop kit or the laptop kit. I like the SATA/power to USB convertor you get with the laptop kit more than the cradle you get with the desktop version.

You can buy a cradle separately for a few pounds if you need one.
 
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Ah I see, I was going off the information in the product description, it mentioned notebooks and apples but not desktops. As long as there will be no probs getting it work/fit in a desktop then great :)

That's quite a price difference between the 2 Samsungs that are essentially the same but with different accessories, unless I'm missing something?

Thanks for the feedback guys :cool:

What do you guys think of this drive?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-001-SD&groupid=1657&catid=2101&subcat=2103

Looks like its read/write specs are a little better?
 
Get the Samsung ones at 145 quid each, the scandisk have a slightly higher peak but not as good random read (I think it was random read) which means real world performance wont really be as good. (you'll do more random small reads than massive throughput operations)

Anyway the Samsung, at that price, is now pretty much the best ssd for the cash.
 
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