SSD question important

Ragahv

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I need a ssd capable of booting up my windows 7 pro X64 OS and 6 more windows server 2012 datacenter 64 bit virtual machines up in oracle virtual box or vmplayer/hyper v.

I have the following hard ware:

CPU: intel 5820K cpu overclocked to 3800MHz.
RAM: DDR4 32gb 2400Mhz
Hard Drive: 1TB WD10EZEX s3.
gtx 980 msi VIDEO CARD.
MSI X99s gaming 7 motherboard.

Basiclaly i chose this ssd because it looks appealing to me:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SanDisk-SSD-PLUS-240GB-2-5-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-520MB-s-SATA-/231602624915?hash=item35ec979993

I think the 520MB/s read speed is decent /better compared to a 7300RPM mechanical hard drive like the western digital WD10EZEX.
This is why i chose that ssd. for each virtual machine of win svr 2012 i creater i only need 8-10Gb of storage since i just need to set up domains and connect them to eachother for my windows server course at college. I also need 1 virtual linux server running apache web hosting services and 2 windows 7 virtual machines.

Please tell me which ssd is the best for this use. I need the machines to boot up faster then my western digital Hard disk drive and load programs up faster then my mechanical hard drive.

Thanks very much. Any suggestions will be appreciated!
 

Kiril1512

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I run on VirtualBox many machines on many SSD and HDD.
Never had a problem in any setup... (except an old laptop with 5200RPM HDD)

But I belive that that SSD is not that good that you think.
I recomend to go for Samsung 850 EVO, cause is a lot better SSD, you have always the speed that is mencioned by default and it is cost same as your option.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-SSD-250GB-250G-850-EVO-Solid-State-Drive-New-/131451710160?hash=item1e9b21ead0

I have the EVO 850 and EVO 840 and I work and play on it with no problems and I'm safe with those SSD's.