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Which SSD is better?

GLiffjOhn
Level 7
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-148-442

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167093

help me pick one or is there any other suggestions?

Cooler Master HAF 922
Samsung 830 128GB SSD
500GB W'D Caviar Black HDD
G Skill Ripjaws X (2x8gb) 1866
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3
Intel i5-2500k @ 4.5mhz 1.270vcore
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W
ThermalTake Frio running at 1300-1400rpm
EVGA SuperClocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit
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Long waited to own a Samsung 830 series but my local never have it in sheif. What a waste.
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InnervateD
Level 10
If you want a reliable SSD go with one of the following:
Crucial M4, Intel, Samsung

If you want a Performance drive:
Corsair, OCZ, Kingston HyperX or any of the Sandforce SSDs (the Newer Gens of course)


Now as the overkill on RAID0 with performance SSDs. I don't think it's completely overkill. Depends on what you like and how much you can afford. With the prices of SSDs falling quite a bit, you can easily afford 2x120GB SSDs or even 2x90GB SSDs for a small raid setup.

I have 2x120GB Corsair Force GTs in RAID0, I have my OS, Photoshop, WoW and SC2 installed only; with still 100GB free, everything else is on my WD Caviar. If anyone plays WoW, they know it takes a while to load especially off a HDD especially if you're parked in say the middle of Stormwind or Ogrimmar with thousands of people. Let's say with my RAID0 SSDs, I load WoW within 10secs after hitting my enter key to login from the login screen. Everything loads almost instantly, it's a raid safer, if you ever get DC'ed in the middle of a raid and you can almost instantly log back in.

Chris_Manico
Level 10
Agreed, loading times off the raid 0 of my ssds is really fast as well, but on average for an average user, it'd be overkill, then again most of us aren't average PC users 🙂
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MrRyaz
Level 10
i would personaly got with the crucial one, i see very little difference between the two and you would be saving yourself $30

I haven't seen this SSD in this thread yet; what about the Sandisk Extreme SATA-6 edition? It has a SandForce SF2281 controlleren and is a bit cheaper then the Samsung or Crosair on my local market.