Need new SSD

Alexcy · 3 May 2014 at 08:39

Hello guys. I am here because i am going to buy a new SSD and i am not sure what to get. First of all i have an OCZ Vertex 4 and it works like a charm. I am going to install a second SSD in my system because i want to install a few games on it, and some programs. I need some help to decide what to get. These are my thoughts.
1)Buy a second OCZ Vertex 4 and make raid 0/1
2)Buy Samsung 840 evo 250gb
3)Buy 2 samsung 840 evo 120gb and make a raid
4)Buy an OCZ Vector

Now about the ocz vector i think its better than the samsung 840 evo but the only drawback is that i heard it has a lot of problems. A lot of people bought it and they had to RMA it because it got panic locked.

What do you guys think?

Alexcy · 3 May 2014 at 13:12

Edit: I am going to use the SSD for games, such as BF4 and for some programs like visual studio eclipse (programming stuff)

kefan77 · 3 May 2014 at 13:13

tamzzy · 3 May 2014 at 13:15

for a games drive, you should get the biggest, best bang for buck ssd you can find.
at the moment that is either a: crucial m500 480gb ssd or b: seagate 600 480gb
can find either for 160 notes if you know where to look

Alexcy · 3 May 2014 at 13:17

Well how is their performance?

tamzzy · 3 May 2014 at 13:23

admittedly not the best, but it's far from worst either
for gaming, ssds are to speed up load times, and these will do the job very well

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SSD/269
anandtech light workload disk busy time:

evo 250gb 125.9s
seagate 480gb 129.8s
m500 280gb 150.3s

we're not talking large time differences here. would youhave a perceptible difference out of benchmarks? probably not. real-life load times prolly 1-2s difference between them per load screen at most

Alexcy · 3 May 2014 at 13:25

tamzzy said:
admittedly not the best, but it's far from worst either
for gaming, ssds are to speed up load times, and these will do the job very well

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SSD/269
anandtech light workload disk busy time:

evo 250gb 125.9s
seagate 480gb 129.8s
m500 280gb 150.3s

we're not talking large time differences here. would youhave a perceptible difference out of benchmarks? probably not. real-life load times prolly 1-2s difference between them per load screen at most

Yeah i will check their prices also.The performance is not so bad its ok, 1-2 seconds aint a big deal Thanks for the info guys!