SSD choice £80-£120

Witor

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Hi guys, don't think I've ever posted in this section, but I need a bit of advice.

Running an i7 on an Asus PH867-M Pro mobo. Currently have a 500gb partitioned for OS and another for the rest + a shared NAS for another pc. Been looking into fitting an SSD drive, 80-120GB will be ideal for me considering I'd whack the OS, usual apps and a few games on it that require higher than avg. disk access, not much more.

Long story short, which SSD would be best suited on that price range? Looking for something that I won't have to faff about with in terms of firmware/drivers/reliability, but offers great performance. Looking at the OCz Agility 3 120gb and Cruicial real SSD m4 128gb, but open to any other suggestions best suited to my Mobo/setup.

Cheers peeps :)
 
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB

It's on This Week Only (ends early tomorrow morning so best order tonight)
was £139.99 inc VAT
£129.95 inc VAT


EDIT

SSD Mega Test

Heres the OcUK "What to buy" based on budget and what you get for your money!

True Gamer!

Budget: Kingston V+ 200 or Force 3 (Agility 3, Adata S510 also fit this level)
Better: Adata S511, M4, Performance Pro
Best: Vertex 3, HyperX, Intel 520series

Multi tasker!

Budget: Adata S510, V+200, Force 3
Better: Vertex 3, Intel 520 Series, Adata S511
Best: Performance Pro, M4

Gamer and Multi tasker!

Budget: V+200
Better: Vertex 3, Intel 520 Series
Best: M4, Performance Pro

Overall

True Gamer: Intel 520 Series
Multi Tasker: Performance Pro
Gamer and Multi Tasker: M4
Click to expand...
 
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lomez said:
agility 3's can be had for £105 new so id say that value there swings it that way.
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I've had two OCZ SSDs die on me already and as far as I know, OCZ are well known for poor reliability in comparison to Crucial and Intel.

So personally I'd avoid OCZ altogether, especially one of the cheaper models in their range. Though I am biased by two failures in the past.

The Crucial M4 all the way for me.
 
I would have a look at this (as well as the performance tests) - this information was gathered between October 1st 2010 and April 1st 2011 - so just misses the launch of the Sandforce 2000 series launch (and thus the OCZ Agility 3 and Vertex 3 launches) but it gives you a good idea of relative relaibility of different brand SSDs. Considering the OCZ Agility 3 and Vertex 3 have had a pretty spotty run so far then I wouldn't imagine these numbers will change too much. In contrast, the biggest issue the M4 drives have run into is a bug after 5200 hours of use where it starts to shut down every hour (with no data loss) and a fixed firmware version (0309) was released a couple of weeks after the issue was found.

Therefore another vote of the Crucial M4 - really nice drives.
 
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I have had two OCZ SSD's fail on me in other systems.

I have a Crucial M4 128gb in mine and it is amazing! Runs flawlessly!
 
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