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a b G Storage
September 27, 2013 2:53:46 PM

I am thinking of getting this SSD for my system to act as primary data storage drive, this is because my HDD is slow and very loud. I am looking for something which is 250GB+ in storage and something which is fast and more importantly reliable. I will be using it for gaming and web browsing (no rendering etc).

I am calling Storage experts here to explain which SSD is best value for money and performance is good.

MY budget for an SSD depends on your recommendations.

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a c 128 G Storage
September 27, 2013 2:58:56 PM

Any of these will serve ya just fine ....

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-...

SandForce controller with Toggle-mode DDR NAND SSD's including Mushkin Chronos Deluxe, Patriot Wildfire, OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS, OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G, Corsair Force GS as well as Samsung 840 250 GB, Samsung 840 256/512 GB, Plextor M3 Pro 128/256 GB, Plextor M5 Pro 128/256 GB, OCZ Vertex 4/Vertex 450, OCZ Vector, Samsung 840 Pro, SanDisk Extreme II
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a b G Storage
September 27, 2013 3:03:05 PM

What do you guys think of the OCZ Vertex 4?
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a c 954 G Storage
September 27, 2013 3:10:12 PM

Azrael47 said:
USAFRet said:
Good choice, but for 10 quid more (from the same site) I'd get the 840 EVO
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/250gb-samsung-840-evo-ba...



What is the difference?


840 EVO reviewed:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/samsung-ssd-840-evo-...

The EVO is the newer line from Samsung. Better controller, less power consumption, theoretically longer lifespan.
For that little price difference, I'd get the EVO if I was looking for a new drive.
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a b G Storage
September 27, 2013 3:11:57 PM

Thanks for explaining to me man. Do you think this is a good idea? I get one (tomorrow for example) and then get another on near Christmas and then raid them in Raid 1. I will get 250GB each, I wont breach 400GB but it is best to have some space.
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a c 954 G Storage
September 27, 2013 3:30:46 PM

Azrael47 said:
Thanks for explaining to me man. Do you think this is a good idea? I get one (tomorrow for example) and then get another on near Christmas and then raid them in Raid 1. I will get 250GB each, I wont breach 400GB but it is best to have some space.


Not a good idea at all.
RAID 1 (mirroring) is good if you need instant continuous operations if a drive dies. For instance, if you were running a webstore, and a dead drive means no one can buy anything. Lost sales.

And 2 x 256 drives in RAID 1 = 256GB of drive space. Mirroring.

In a regular desktop environment, it really serves little purpose. It will faithfully duplicate every virus, mistakenly deleted file, or other problem.
It is not a backup.

Multiple SSD is no problem. I have 2 x 128GB drives. Two independent drives, just like multiple spinning drives.
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a b G Storage
September 28, 2013 1:36:29 AM

Ok thanks, I just thought that putting it in raid 1 for data security measures would be necessary, do you just mean you have the SSD's individually hooked up to the sata ports, they are not connected together in any way?

I will most likely get one now and then get the other when I have the money. Would you not recommend this SSD?

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/256gb-samsung-840-pro-se...

or would I not see a slight difference for the big money increase.

Thank's.

Just need an SSD that is good for all my data (OS, games and programs) to be stored on and be reliable .

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a b G Storage
September 30, 2013 6:11:51 AM

The 840 Pro is a great SSD, but for most people the 840 Evo is sufficient. But you can buy the 840 Pro and just do regular backups, which is often better then a RAID 1. Because a wrongly deleted file or crashed file system is easily to recover.
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