Fastest 128 GB SSD?

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flashbond

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Hi Guys!

Simply the title describes its self. I have 200$ budget so the more important thing for me is speed. The fastest writing and reading speeds with the minimum latency, fast startups and movie exports are my dreams. It will be my Windows disk with some Adobe and Sony elements.

My motherboard supports SATA 3 6G/s.

What is the right choice for me? Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!
 
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RetiredChief
First off, there is only a nickels worth of difference between the better SSDs when it comes to real life day-2-day performance for an OS + program Drive - better to look at reliability and least user problems. SYNTHETIC Benchmarks are just that and yes they do show a difference.
That said, my choices are:
1st .. Samsung 840 pro
2nd .. Samsung 840 (non-Pro), Crucial M4 or M500, Pextor M5P, and if you can still find it the Samsung 830. Of these I'd give a slight edge to the Plextor M5P.


To illustrate my comment on performance:
I have 3 Crucial M4's, 3 Samsung 830's and 2 Samsung 840 pro's.
The M4's and the 830's AS SSD overall score is around 750 while the Samsung 840 pro has a Overall score of 1100. Whopping big difference, But you...
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The differences between SSDs aren't that great; it takes benchmarking rather than actual use to expose differences beyond extreme cases.
The Samsung 840 Pro would probably be a good choice for you. It is one of the faster drives, and I don't think I've ever read of any reliability problems with their drives. Crucial (M4 or M500) would be good too.
 
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First off, there is only a nickels worth of difference between the better SSDs when it comes to real life day-2-day performance for an OS + program Drive - better to look at reliability and least user problems. SYNTHETIC Benchmarks are just that and yes they do show a difference.
That said, my choices are:
1st .. Samsung 840 pro
2nd .. Samsung 840 (non-Pro), Crucial M4 or M500, Pextor M5P, and if you can still find it the Samsung 830. Of these I'd give a slight edge to the Plextor M5P.


To illustrate my comment on performance:
I have 3 Crucial M4's, 3 Samsung 830's and 2 Samsung 840 pro's.
The M4's and the 830's AS SSD overall score is around 750 while the Samsung 840 pro has a Overall score of 1100. Whopping big difference, But you would be hard pressed to tell which system has which SSD and yes the are configured almost identical.
 
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