Which mSATA SSD?

[faicec]

Morning,

Looking to purchase an mSATA SSD for an ITX Home Server Build. The SSD will be used to boot the OS, and also manipulate large files prior to migrating them to a RAID of traditional HDD's.

I've narrowed my selection down to the following, they are a similar price, however I can't get my head around the read/write speeds and IOPS. Can someone point out if either is clearly better than the other?

Kingston SSDNow 120GB mSATA
http://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/s#sms200s3

Crucial M500 120GB mSATA
http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/ct120m500ssd3

Sequential Read/Write (MB/s)
Kingston up to 550 / 520
Crucial up to 500 / 130

Random 4k Read/Write (IOPS)
Kingston up to 17k / 45k
Crucial up to 62k / 35k

Cheers,
Craig

 

[ChrisD.]

I'd go with the Crucial. I have several of them at home and I've never had an issue. In real life you won't notice the write speed difference and as you mention, it has higher IO capability for random 4k read and writes which is where you will notice a difference IMO.