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Ok I almost have all the final touches on my build to order. newegg just put on sale the Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD).. I was going to go with SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA 6Gb/s. The MX100 right now is 20.00 cheaper which in your opinion will give me the best performance. thanks in advance for your input
 
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The performance of all modern ssd's is the same.
Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
For that, the response times of current SSD's are remarkably similar. And quick. They will be 50X faster than a hard drive.
In sequential operations, they will be 2x faster than a hard drive, perhaps 3x if you have a sata3 interface.
Larger SSD's are preferable. They have more nand chips that can be accessed in parallel. Sort of...
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If the 20 dollars means a lot, I would go with the Crucial MX100. If not the samsung is everything you want in a SSD. You'll probably won't notice much of a difference in real world usage, but the samsung is very reliable and comes with great software.
 
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The performance of all modern ssd's is the same.
Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
For that, the response times of current SSD's are remarkably similar. And quick. They will be 50X faster than a hard drive.
In sequential operations, they will be 2x faster than a hard drive, perhaps 3x if you have a sata3 interface.
Larger SSD's are preferable. They have more nand chips that can be accessed in parallel. Sort of an internal raid-0 if you will.
Also, a SSD will slow down as it approaches full. That is because it will have a harder time finding free nand blocks to do an update without a read/write operation.
I would pick intel or Samsung for quality.
In particular, I like Samsung which tends to be cheaper. In addition, they have software via Samsung magician that allows you to use rapid mode to use some of your ram as a ssd cache.
 
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