SSD question

[admirable]

Looking for a SSD about 500GB and I see them advertised as 480GB and others are 512GB, what is the difference apart from price and disk size?

 

[arad85]

The controller technology. The ones that are not multiples of 2 tend to use compression on storage to increase storage so the manufacturers allow themselves some breathing room.

 

[admirable]

So would I be far better with the 512GB or is there not much difference?

 

[arad85]

Not that much difference these days unless you want the last few MB/s under all circumstances. Personally, I'd get the Crucial MX100 if I were buying today.... (I may be buying a couple soon!)

 

[admirable]

I see Crucial are having a sale

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/ssd?AI...92386&cm_mmc=affiliation-_-null-_-null-_-null

 

[arad85]

Or you could get them at a decent price

http://www.ebuyer.com/644025-crucia...nch-7mm-with-9-5mm-adapter-ssd-ct512mx100ssd1

or

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/512g...i-550-mb-s-500-mb-s-90k-iops-inc-95mm-adapter

 

[donetello]

Can't go wrong with the Samsung 840 pro series,or the older 830,mine have never had an issue in three years.

 

[neil_g]

the old 830 were great. samsung obviously knew this as they split them into several different speeds/models and called the pro (most expensive) the one with comparable speed.

 

[mid_gen]

Aren't most drives all 550/550 or thereabouts these days? I thought the main difference was warranty/estimated write lifetime....

 

[admirable]

In the end I bought a Crucial M550 512GB

 

[mid_gen]

In the end I bought a Crucial M550 512GB

That was my latest purchase too, on top of the circus of OCZ drives I have knocked about hanging off SATA cables in my case

 

[admirable]

I ordered this last night and that should be me all up to date for a while

http://www.ballicom.co.uk/90c1bmy00...2-channel--sata-6gbs--pcie-20-x4.p971213.html

 

[neil_g]

Just fitted an 850 pro 256 to the work laptop. Definitely fast

 

[admirable]

I have disconnected the optical drive and used the sata port for my SSD, this leaves the other two sata ports for other hard drives. I have an external usb CD/DVD drive I can use if I need it

 

[neil_g]

Make sure it's sata3, some optical drives use sata2 due to the lower requirement. Assuming it was a prebuilt system.

Also make sure the sata is set to ahci in bios.

 

[admirable]

It is sata 2 that's why I've bought the PCi card above. Will change back when I get the card.

It's set to ahci in the bios

thanks for all your help guys!