Crucial MX100 or SandDisk Extreme II?

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Yesterday I ordered a SandDisk Extreme II 480GB SSD off of amazon because it was the gold box daily deal. It was priced at $230, though the order came out to $246 after sales tax. However, today I find that B&H has the Crucial 512GB MX100 for $199 shipped (no sales tax here). I've seen a lot of benchmarks on these drives, but being new to SSD's it's hard for me to make heads or tails of all the data (Performance wise, is 16nm NAND better than 20nm?). Should I cancel my amazon order and go with the Crucial SSD? Is the Extreme II worth $47 more with less storage?
 
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Here is a recent review which has both of these drives compared: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8066/crucial-mx100-256gb-512gb-review

It appears that the Sandisk is a little faster in benchmarks, but whether you'd notice the difference in day to day usage, I don't know.

So, if you want the fastest performance, get the Sandisk for the higher price. If you don't care about being the fastest gun in town, save your $47 and get the Crucial.

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How would you compare the AnandTech's Destroyer benchmark vs some of the other benchmarks floating around the web like this one from TechSpot? The destroyer shows the SanDisk trouncing the competition, and yet the other benchmarks show relatively even performance?
 
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I'm sorry but I just don't know that much about "Destroyer" without doing some in-depth investigating.

In my experience, you just have to look at enough reviews to, hopefully, arrive at a "consensus" of opinions. They will never all agree but there may be some similarity to the results that tells you which way to go.

I give a pretty heavy weighting to Anand-Tech as I believe that they are very thorough.

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Thanks Yogi, I think I'm just gonna stick with my order on the SanDisk. After more research, found out about OP'ing and the SanDisk's general long term performance/consistency. The new 16nm NAND is probably good, but at this stage I'd rather not bet my data on it (SanDisk's 5 year warranty seems more reassuring).
 
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