Another which SSD?

RenoRanes007

RenoRanes007

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So I currently have a 120GB Kingston V+200 just for running Windows, it's been pretty decent but is now lacking space quickly despite trying not to install anything else on it (Games, Programs, Docs etc on 2 Separate 1TB HDDs)

I'm looking to spend no more than £170 (unless absolutely worth it!) to upgrade to a 240/250/256 GB SSD cloning my old Kingston drive to it so I don't need to re-install Windows (If the new drive came with the kit to do this then even better)

However it seems the more research I do into 'Which Drive' the more confused I'm getting. You see initially I thought go for the fastest Read/Write Speeds which took me to the Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB with Maximum Read: 555MB/sec and Maximum Write: 510MB/sec
But after some searching on here the Samsung 250GB SSD 840 seems to be the Drive of choice for many however the Write Speed seems to be half that of the Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB and in fact almost half that of what I currently have, this is whats confusing me, is the Samsung that much better that the seemingly large reduction in Write Speed is worth it or am I completely missing something?

What would be your choice out of these two?

Cheers.
 
Write speed isn't that important a figure to get hung up on, I'm not sure normal desktop usage involves much in the way of high speed writes.
 
If write speed were important, my old Intel X-25m 80GB would have been a rubbish SSD to own. It was a bit rubbish, because it failed after 2.5 years, although it's performance was great despite < 100MB/s write speed.

The 840 250GB has a write speed of ~250 MB/s, which is hardly slow, and hardly an issue. It may take a few seconds longer to install an app or a game, but I`ve never sat here and thought "I wish the write speed was faster, this is taking ages".

Having said that the Pro version does have faster write speeds and has a 5 year warranty, so you pay your money and take your pick. The Kingston SSD that you mention also looks good.
 
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Thanks for the info guys, I must admit I am tempted to spend that little extra on the Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO with double the Write Speed, slightly higher IOPS, the 5 year warranty and 16GB more capacity than the Kingston, it's just a shame it doesn't come with the Adaptor Bracket and Cloning Kit. Can anyone recommend a good free Cloning Software?
 
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