The difference between these two drives? (+spec me an SSD)

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I've looking at these two drives, but can't work out why one is £30 more expensive than the other, can you shed any light on this?

Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive

Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive

Basically, I'm beginning to upgrade my ancient PC bit by bit, and I'm going to start with an SSD. I'm leaning towards the first on posted above, and want to keep the price as low as possible, while having more than 200GB capacity.

Are there any recommendations for either of the above, or indeed should I looks at another model? I plan on hitting the "buy" button at some point tonight, after any advise comes through :)
 
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MX100 is a good choose . Would not go for Kingston myself as they are no the best. The MX100 is a good one to buy. You will need to get a new motherboard to take the full advantages of it as the SSD is 6Gb/s but your board only supports 3Gb/s
 
I was looking at the Crucial as well, as I know they're a good solid brand, but the listed write speeds are considerably slower than the Kingston...

I'm well aware that I only have SATA2 on this motherboard, which will cause a bottleneck, but I will be upgrading, possibly tonight, if I get drunk enough :P
 
Shivy011 said:
This is also good

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-012-SH&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=2394

Faster than the MX100 apparently and £2 cheaper :)
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http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1221?vs=641

The Neutron GTX has the same controller, so it should be close to the Hynix (Which Anandtech hasn't tested) Toss-up between the 2 really



William-Mathew said:
MX100 is a good choose . Would not go for Kingston myself as they are no the best. The MX100 is a good one to buy. You will need to get a new motherboard to take the full advantages of it as the SSD is 6Gb/s but your board only supports 3Gb/s
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The 3Gb sata will only have a small negative influence. The biggest power of SSD's is IOPS, and that is really not harmed much at all by the available bandwith. Definately not enough of a reason to upgrade motherboard in my opinion.
 
Haha, have you seen the PC in my sig? I've definitely got to upgrade the cpu/mobo/ram/gpu as well, but I think an SSD will give me an instant "oomph" now whilst I formulate my plan of attack on the cpu/mobo/ram/gpu.
 
Munky1080 said:
I was looking at the Crucial as well, as I know they're a good solid brand, but the listed write speeds are considerably slower than the Kingston...

I'm well aware that I only have SATA2 on this motherboard, which will cause a bottleneck, but I will be upgrading, possibly tonight, if I get drunk enough :P
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There has been a lot of controversy on Kingston's claimed numbers. I go with Anandtech's actual tests which show the Kingstons are not quite as fast as the MX100.

That said "SSDs have matured to a point where any modern SSD is good enough for typical client workloads, which is why price is the dominating factor in the mainstream space"
 
Munky1080 said:
Haha, have you seen the PC in my sig? I've definitely got to upgrade the cpu/mobo/ram/gpu as well, but I think an SSD will give me an instant "oomph" now whilst I formulate my plan of attack on the cpu/mobo/ram/gpu.
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It will make a pretty big difference. Putting my Samsung 830 temporarily in an old Core Duo 2Ghz/2GB Laptop (over 8 years old) made it completely usable again.
 
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