Which msata drive

Craig321 · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:26

I'm looking to get the Dell XPS 15 laptop which comes with a 750GB standard HDD.

It has an msata slot so I'd like to stick a 128GB drive in there and use the 750GB as storage.

Can anyone recommend an mSATA drive. Max about £100 please.

Thanks.

wazza300 · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:40

crucial m4 msata are decent

Craig321 · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:41

Are they better than the Plextors? I noticed the Plextor claims to be quite a lot faster in terms of IOPS and write speed.

wazza300 · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:47

plextors might be faster but they are sandforce controlled?

m4 has a more reliable marvell controller

plexter might be fine though,my corsair gt uses sandforce and its been fine

Craig321 · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:53

Just had a look and the Plextors are Marvell.

wazza300 · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:54

ahh you should be ok then

Craig321 · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:57

Cool. I guess most SSDs are over their dodgy firmware and reliability problems then. Didn't want to buy something that could have firmware or other problems. It needs to (hopefully) last the next 7 years while I do my college course next year and then 6 years of uni!!

wazza300 · 4 Sep 2013 at 01:03

marvell controllers are ok,and Samsung's own controller

early sandforce did have reliability issue's but seems fine now

Craig321 · 4 Sep 2013 at 01:20

Thanks

Craig321 · 4 Sep 2013 at 01:21

By the way, how's your Karrimor Urban 30l? You posted a link to them cheap a while ago.

Are they waterproof & decent quality?

wazza300 · 4 Sep 2013 at 11:03

ohh,yh its still holding up well,use it all weathers