Worth upgrading 4 year old Intel X25-M 160GB SSD for a Samsung 120/250GB 840 EVO?

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As the thread title says, I have a 4 year old Intel X25-M 160GB SSD. I'm wondering if it is worth replacing it with either a 120 or 250GB 840 EVO SSD? I must add that I'm thinking of building a new PC in the summer as a project for future work and hobbying so is it worth spending £66 to £120 replacing my old SSD with a newer, faster model?

I researched the read and write speeds of my current SSD and found that it can read at 250 MB/s and write at 100 MB/s. In comparison the Samsung 840 EVO 250GB can read and write at 540 MB/s and 520 MB/s respectively whilst the 120GB model reads and writes at 540 MB/s and 410 MB/s respectively.

So the Samsung 840 EVOs can read at just over twice the speed of my current SSD and write at least four times faster. I do play FM quite a bit and I find, even with an SSD, some of the loading/saving performance a bit pedestrian so would I see enough of a performance increase to justify £120 on a new SSD to last me until August when I'll build my new PC?
 
It depends what motherboard you'll need one with Intel sata3 controlled ports to get rated speeds early Marvell sata3 ports are poor around 350mb read/write
 
My PC is running an Asus P5Q-E. It has an Intel ICH10R Southbridge chip with 6 SATA 3.0 GB/s ports. It also has two SATA 3.0 GB/s ports on a Silicon Image SIL5723 controller. Would that be fast enough? Is there a way to find out what port a hard drive is using without having to restart my PC and look in the BIOS or open up my case?
 
Intel rapid storage driver software will say which ports they are on,tbh I don't think you'll see full rated speeds on that board,even on later x58 boards the sata3 speeds were poor,it was only when p67 boards came out that you could fully make use of sata3 speeds of latest ssd's

Id stick with what you have unless you plan on upgrading CPU/board in near future
 
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wazza300 said:
Intel rapid storage driver software will say which ports they are on,tbh I don't think you'll see full rated speeds on that board,even on later x58 boards the sata3 speeds were poor,it was only when p67 boards came out that you could fully make use of sata3 speeds of latest ssd's
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Good thinking. Neither Intel RST nor the SSD Toolbox are giving any obvious hints about which port I'm using. Although the RST lists my SSD, my SATA HDD, my two optical drives and two spare SATA sockets. They are numbered from 0 to 5 which must be the 6 Intel SATA ports.

wazza300 said:
Id stick with what you have unless you plan on upgrading CPU/board in near future
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Don't see any major need to upgrade CPU or motherboard as I'll be making a new PC in the summer. I just wondered if the new Samsung 840 EVOs would have been noticeably faster than £120 was a worthy spend for a 5-6 month period before I built my new PC.
 
Yh if your upgrading/building new pc in 6months,as it can be carried over to the new pc,you'll only be as fast as Intel sata2 atm,whether you'd notice any speed difference over your current Intel drive Idk
 
OK, I'll leave it then if I won't see any major increase in speeds. I'd rather buy everything new in 6 months for the new PC rather than get a new SSD now and transplant it over to the new PC. :)
 
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