Some advice please

brookejp

brookejp

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I am totally confused about the speeds of SSD, People on the forum say that Intel SSD are the best the kingstons, then OCZ ect.....

But when you look at the read/write speeds some kingstons's are way faster that IDM ones.... But every one say buy IDM.

See why I am confused....

Thanks
 
I was the same. Bought a Kingston as I just couldn't differentiate between that and the others. Literally name in a hat time.
I'm very happy with it thankfully :)
 
The problem is that Read/Write speeds that are listed are not a very good guide as to how good an SSD is. Those values only matter for sequential transfers, and if all you do is sequential transfers a mechanical drive is a lot better bang for buck.

A better number to look at, but one which you need to trawl reviews and forum screenshots to find, is 4k random reads and writes. If an SSD is good at these, it's going to feel responsive and cope well under multitasking. Unfortunately it's very difficult to quantify just how much of an improvement it makes. Usually as long as it's in the thousands of IOPS, or Megabytes of throughput (Hint: throughput/0.004 = IOPS) it'll be good.

Then there are other considerations, like TRIM / Garbage Collection support, luckily most drives now support these.
 
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