** SSD MEGA TEST ** Want to know whats best for you? Look inside!! UPDATE 14/02/2012

Sandisk Extreme 120Gb on a P5Q Pro (SATA2)

Storage on AHCI Mode:
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Storage on RAID Mode
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Liek I say only SATA 2 on the P5Q PRo the above were on the intel controller.
 
my 128gb falcon drive died last year, lasted 2 and a half years before developing bad blocks.. and for the record i found SSD life was pretty useless, it said it was gonna last until 2020 or something but then i found out after a scan it had 0.2% bad blocks which kept making windows get corrupt files. So the drive is pretty much useless to me.

Now that prices have come down a lot, which one is best? i hear M4's have problems still from looking at their forum. I guess Intel 520 is best since it has a 5 year warranty, though it also costs 50% more.

Or maybe it's better to spend less.. and if the drive dies after their 3 year warranty i could just buy a new one. Don't know what to do, but quite rapid price drops recently.
 
Sandisk 240Gb extreme on M5A99X Evo

Sandisk 240Gb extreme on M5A99X Evo first test data AMD 990 chipset on sata III port.




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Why is the Intel 520 better for gaming than the M4?

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I would love some advice on this please, so confused what to buy.

My motherboard is the Rampage 11 Extreme Intel® Socket 1366 x58
this only supports the SATA 11

I have been looking at the

Asus Sabertooth TUF X58 Motherboard, USB 3.0, SATA III
Asus SABERTOOTH X58, Intel X58, S 1366, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, SATA, PCIe 2.0 (x16), ATX

Which supports the SATA 111 ..... Should I buy this for my SSD upgrade ?

I have been looking at ...........
MZ-7PC256D/EU - 256GB Samsung 830 Series SSD Desktop Kit, SATA III, 3-core MCX, NAND-Flash, Read 520MB/s, Write 400MB/s, 256MB Cache

I am only looking at running windows 7 pro and BF3 [Online , internet connection 54mb download / 15mb upload ]on the new SSD

I have 2x 500Gb for all other software.


Please any help would be brilliant .

Thank you
Gary
 
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Nice little upgrade, running on SATA2 on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR.

First, Samsung F1 1TB mechanical drive.
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Crucial M4 128GB.
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It's knocked a whole minute off my boot time and made windows so much more responsive.
 
Crucial M4 256Mb 000f
AHCI on Sata2 intel controller

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I love that now my system will power down the older HHDs when they are not in use. It is amazing how loud the things really are compared to the SSD.
 
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@ Andrew Moore

Andrew, noticed you have added to the megatest with samsung 240GB, can you do the same with the Sandisk Extreme 240GB?

many thanks, andy.
 
My Samsung F1 300GB
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Inferno Patriot
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One of the early models!, think for xmas i'm going to get a nice SSD drive for my OS 250GB+
 
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