Buying a SSD - which one?

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I'm looking to finally ditch my mechanical drive for a solid state one to run my OS from, but I am not sure which one would be suitable/good enough, for me in the price range I am looking at.

The price range I am looking at is between £120-160 for a 240/256Gb SSD. I have also considered buying two 120Gb drives instead, but feel one drive for the OS might be better.

I have been looking at a few already, such as:

Crucial M4 256GB

OCZ Agility 3 240GB

SanDisk Extreme SSD 240GB

Corsair Force GS 240GB

Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Desktop

Obviously I am aware the Samsung is one of the best of the SSD choices here, but I am wondering if the difference in performance worth the premium and is there really any difference at all?

I would be happy to just get any 240/256GB SSD that is within my budget, but I have heard a few horror stories over the years with drives failing etc, which inevitably has made me want to be cautious.


thanks
 
The Samsung is the best deal atm,£130 after cashback,the sandisk is also a good drive for the money,the agility uses cheap asynchronous nand,Samsung and sandisk use top performing toggle nand
 
I would get the cheapest...

From here that would be the Samsung 256GB SSD 830, it's out of stock, but you can just buy the Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256N/EU) **BTS £20 CASHBACK**

It will still connect to your PC, only difference is you get an adaptor with it to plug into notebooks, just leave it in the box. :)

I can't believe how cheap these are, I thought I was getting a good deal at £200 inc cash back, about 5 months ago lol. :)
 
Sorry, just seen your reply.

Seems like the Samsung is the best deal, if there really is no difference between notebook and desktop versions. Doesn't make sense for the premium on the desktop version if the difference is just an adaptor in the notebook version.
 
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Secret_Window said:
What is the difference between the Samsung Desktop model priced £179.99 and non-desktop model priced £149.99 ?
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Norton Ghost & SSD 2.5"-3.5" tray, that is the version I bought, you don't really need them, if you need an SSD tray... you can get them for around £5 - Akasa AK-HDA-01
 
Admiral Huddy said:
My choice would be the OCZ Vertex 4 256GB 2.5"

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-107-OC

Over budget but on special this week

No need for separate drives.. Just partiton the drive as you would a conventional HDD. As small partition of around 60gb is ample for OS and small apps etc.
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Are the read/write speeds better than the Samsung then? I'm aware that listed write/read specs aren't always real world performance, which is why I feel a bit reluctant to trust every SSD that lists specs with 500+ for read/write.
 
The sandisk also beats the Samsung in benchmarks but for proven reliability the Sammy gets my vote,you won't notice any difference with any of those drives speedwise
 
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