128gb SSD, Are they all equal?

Jacob_G · Mar 30, 2013

I am buying a SSD for the first time to go into the new desktop i am building. My thought was to get a 128gb to use for running programs, and my 1 terabyte external for storage.

Are there any conceivable problems with this?

More importantly, i was looking at NewEgg and the prices vary greatly and i cannot figure out why.

I have heard that corsair is a good brand and found these two drives.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233395

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233404

what would i be getting for $5?

atomicWAR · Mar 30, 2013

no not all ssds are equal...in this case you get an extra 8gb and and extra 10mbs of transfer rate with the more expensive ssd....

Deleted member 217926 · Mar 30, 2013

You are better off with a Samsung 840 or 840 Pro than a Corsair drive. Samsung drives are the most reliable on the market and the 840 Pro is the fastest.

It's also cheaper.

http://us.ncix.com/products/?usaffiliateid=1000031504&sku=77218&vpn=MZ%2D7PD128BW&manufacture=Samsung%20Memory%20%26%20Storage&promoid=1334

Dereck47 · Mar 30, 2013

The Force Series GS drive uses a SandForce controller. The Neutron Series GTX drive uses a LAMD controller.

The SandForce controller has slightly slower Read/Write speeds when using data that is highly incompressible; like the test data used with AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark benchmark programs.

I don't know much about the LAMD controller, but I would probably get the Neutron Series GTX.

atomicWAR · Mar 30, 2013

Dereck47 :

i was trying to be less techincal but this is correct....i just summed it up was all.

Deleted member 217926 · Mar 30, 2013

And the proprietary Samsung controller is better than either Sandforce or LAMD. The only thing close to the 840 Pro is the OCZ Vector.

atomicWAR · Mar 30, 2013

samsung is the best controller though if you get an intel ssd with sandforce that's an exception as they have a very good RD and special firmware's other SSDs using the controller does not have.

Jacob_G · Mar 30, 2013

I am a bit confused. For the Samsung drive you suggested, the sustained read speed was 530 and the sustained write was 390. On the corsair force however the same speeds were 560 and 535 respectively. It seems to me that this would indicate that the Corsair is faster. Can you elaborate and explain how i am misinterpreting this information?

atomicWAR · Mar 30, 2013

yes the corsair is faster but it's sandforce controller is less stable and more buggy (save intel sdd versions which have custom firmwares) than samsungs.

atomicWAR · Mar 30, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SandForce
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4604/the-sandforce-roundup-corsair-patriot-ocz-owc-memoright-ssds-compared
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5508/intel-ssd-520-review-cherryville-brings-reliability-to-sandforce (about intel sandforce)

some of what imentioned above....charts below

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-6.html ssd hiearchy chart

Deleted member 217926 · Mar 30, 2013

Jacob_G :

Listed read and write speeds are "best case scenario" speeds. When you look at real world performance the Samsung drives win hands down.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review/4

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review/5

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review/6

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-6.html

And reliability:

http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-rates-7.html

Jacob_G · Mar 30, 2013

atomicWAR :

Thank you very much to everybody. This is why i love this website. I figured faster is better, however i had no idea the sandforce controller was known to be buggy. I will be getting the samsung 840 pro 128gb

atomicWAR · Mar 30, 2013

anytime

glad to help

Jacob_G · Mar 30, 2013

Jacob_G :

Listed read and write speeds are "best case scenario" speeds. When you look at real world performance the Samsung drives win hands down.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review/4

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review/5

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review/6

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-6.html

And reliability:

http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-rates-7.html

Thank you very much for sticking with me for the duration of my question and fully answering any concerns i had. You have been supremely helpful in all regards. Cheers mate!

Deleted member 217926 · Mar 30, 2013

Glad to help!

Jacob_G · Mar 31, 2013

If any of you are interested here is my final build. Thank you all so much for your invaluable help. I love Tom's Hardware!!

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1639625/complete-build-viable.html

steave_01 · Apr 2, 2013

Dereck47 :

atomicWAR :

I agree with anort3. I go by real tests rather than totally relying on the benchmark results.Everything is getting commercial I believe. This is really shocking!! It is always best to decide on the SSD based on the actual I/O tests like anort3 indicates. I have performed similar tests on my Intel 520x SSDs and quite happy with the iops. Moreover, incompressible data handling is quite a tricky process. If you go only by the benchmark results, then Samsung could be listed as the winner. But, trust me actual tests would topple this list & according to me this is what that would really matter.

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