samsung 840 pro 128gb or samsung evo 840 250gb or intel 520 240gb?

yoyo59 · 4 Feb 2014 at 10:30

all these ssds are around the same price, which should I go for?

I was leaning towards the evo.. but what do you guys reckon?

with 128gb could I have the OS and some games or is it best to leave a lot of space in the SSD so it can be more reliable etc?

apart from OS load times what other benefits will I notice? I mean haswell is already super responsive

wazza300 · 4 Feb 2014 at 11:27

evo is the best value for money imo

you can fill up the ssd like any other hdd,i had less than 1gb free space on a corsair gt 60gb and it was fine

Terrier_Jimlad · 4 Feb 2014 at 13:11

I believe the RAPID mode is now available on the Pro with the latest Magician, rather than just been tied to Evo drives ... Pro's come with 2 years extra warranty do they not?

yoyo59 · 4 Feb 2014 at 13:17

Terrier_Jimlad said:
I believe the RAPID mode is now available on the Pro with the latest Magician, rather than just been tied to Evo drives ... Pro's come with 2 years extra warranty do they not?

yes they do, but I can only get a 128gb 840 pro

wazza300 · 4 Feb 2014 at 15:34

I have the pro and evo,cant tell any diff

Nasher · 7 Feb 2014 at 11:03

The Samsung EVO drives are insanly fast if you turn on all the performance enhancements (at the cost of storage space and ram).

They also have built in hardware encryption and are quicker than most other SSDs at handling small files, due to them not using compression

tbyeah · 8 Feb 2014 at 21:07

EVO out of those three.

pugheaven · 12 Feb 2014 at 17:21

Intel sucks, had consistant problems with my INTEL RAID array... switched main bootables to the Sammy's been perfect ever since and INTEL are a pain if there's a problem... as I've found out.