SSD?

Nemeses · 17 Sep 2011 at 20:06

Thinking about getting one to go with the new system I'm building (I now have 2 64GB SSD pre trim sitting in raid 0).
Looking around seems the M4 is the most reliable, so which ones would you guys recommend, Min size 120GB.

My games sit on a 300GB Velociraptor HD, and all my other stuff site on a 2TB HD, will have photo-shop and video editing along with OS on SSD.

It will go with this system

New:
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit
Stuff I already have:
2 x GTX 570
Coolmaster real power 1000w
H60 Cooler

gwobbles · 17 Sep 2011 at 21:39

tbh the only answer youre gonna get on this forum is m4 lol so i for the sake of bumping up my post count by +1 will say, m4 128gb

Nemeses · 17 Sep 2011 at 22:29

gwobbles said:
tbh the only answer youre gonna get on this forum is m4 lol so i for the sake of bumping up my post count by +1 will say, m4 128gb

Well its the one I'm looking at just wondered with all the new release of late if any of the others top it now.

aowc02 · 17 Sep 2011 at 23:08

Whats so great about the M4 vs Vertex 3 / force 3? (out of interest?)

Nemeses · 17 Sep 2011 at 23:18

aowc02 said:
Whats so great about the M4 vs Vertex 3 / force 3? (out of interest?)

From what I have seen/read it seems to be more stable, it may not be quite as fast but its a damn sight more reliable, or so it seems

gwobbles · 18 Sep 2011 at 00:10

apparently the new firmware puts the m4 near to the level of performance of the new ssds out there plus the m4 is much more stable and reliable than the sandforce 2xxx ssds (or so i read, and have been informed about)

ChrisD. · 18 Sep 2011 at 00:28

Couldn't be happier with my M4.

DragonQ · 18 Sep 2011 at 09:33

Aside from being more reliable and cheaper, the M4 is also better at most 4k reads & writes, which is most important for "snappiness". It only really loses in compressible sequential reads and writes, which don't happen terribly often (and when they do, they're usually file copies and so limited by the speed of the HDD being copied from/to).

The other advantage is that the M4 doesn't employ on-the-fly compression, so you don't have to worry about having a lot of incompressible files on the SSD slowing down performance (e.g. audio, video, ZIP).

Nemeses · 18 Sep 2011 at 11:47

mmm have to decide today so I get it along with the rest of the kit I ordered.

ChrisD. · 18 Sep 2011 at 15:06

Just get the M4, you won't be disappointed.

Amidar · 18 Sep 2011 at 15:43

As everyone else has said go with the M4,sandforce based drives are way to buggy plus with the new M4 filmware it's a no brainer.

Nemeses · 18 Sep 2011 at 17:29

Cheers for replies bought them now

Product Name
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
Akasa Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Kit