Another 256GB SSD Deal :) ** Shipping to customers today!! 18/06/2012 **

Just had a look on the store page for this and have decided to get one. Apparently it offers 4.8GB/s transfer speeds!! :eek:

Plextor M2S 256GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (PX-256M2S)

Read Speed: 4800MB/Sec, Write Speed: 330MB/Sec, Flash: MLC, Controller: Marvell Control Chip 88SS9174, Buffer: 128MB.


:eek::eek:;)
 
I have an Agility 3 and a Samsung 830 and can't tell the difference between the two using either as a boot drive. Tbh this drive for £109 is a bargain and I think I will grab a couple for my steam folder.....
 
Fire_fly said:
Why did i have to buy a 256Gb M4 last week, oh well I'm happy with it.
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The M4 is a much better boot drive, no reason to regret your purchase.

MOOGLEYS said:
I have an Agility 3 and a Samsung 830 and can't tell the difference between the two using either as a boot drive. Tbh this drive for £109 is a bargain and I think I will grab a couple for my steam folder.....
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Both of those drives are better as boot drives than this, look at the disparity in IO!

However... I notice the difference between Agility 3 and Crucial M4 (M4 being better) and I'm expecting the Samsung to be an improvement over the M4.

Surprised you haven't noticed the difference, the Agility 3 was subject to more disk busy pauses.
 
crinkleshoes said:
However... I notice the difference between Agility 3 and Crucial M4 (M4 being better) and I'm expecting the Samsung to be an improvement over the M4.
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I've read that the M4 should be slightly better as it's got a bit of an advantage over the Samsung in 4k reads, I'm not saying it's noticeable but that's just what I've seen mentioned. Would be interesting to hear your insight on if you can notice any difference with the Samsung over the M4 since you will have both v. soon.
 
Cleeecooo said:
Why would you feel old?

You'll be surprised how many 'young' people know so little about computers other than going on FB.
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It was the.... "Plextor ... who ??" query, and saying he'd never heard of them !!

arknor said:
because they were the best at getting around copy protection?
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Nope, more like the best of the bunch for clean reliable burns, that showed as little noise as possible, scans of discs burned by original plextor drives before they started rebadging liteon **** were very noticeably better.

I have burned very few coasters with the old school plextors i have still got here



Anyone know if this should attrat free shipping ?
 
martian_aphid said:
I've read that the M4 should be slightly better as it's got a bit of an advantage over the Samsung in 4k reads, I'm not saying it's noticeable but that's just what I've seen mentioned. Would be interesting to hear your insight on if you can notice any difference with the Samsung over the M4 since you will have both v. soon.
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This is what's lead me to believe the samsung will be quicker in general usage scenarios:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/355?vs=532

Anandtech's "heavy" and "light" workload tests are the closest to real world usage scenarios of any tests I know.

The key measurements to look at are disk busy time as data rate isn't that big of a deal as both are so quick (but will have reflected the busy time).

The difference is quite substantial - I'm hoping it will be noticeable - but TBH - I'm not that fussed if it isn't and they feel roughly equal as I'm quite happy with the M4 performance :)
 
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