SSD Help

[Ajay]

Just waiting for some parts to arrive but ive left my ssd till last, ive been told to get an m4 from a few people around this forum which was some real help they are good value for storage.

But my only concern is im going to fill it with games so should i instead get a similar priced drive which has a higer iops or wont i see the difference?

heres an example

Crucial m4 £152 read 500 write 260 iops 50k

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/256g...d-mlc-flash-500mb-s-write-260mb-s-new-version

Corsair Force 3 £147.89 Read 550 write 520 iops 85k

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/240g...force-ssd-read-550mb-s-write-520mb-s-85k-iops

Theres not a huge price difference i save a few pounds actually but do i go for the better performing drive or am i just going to buy a dud ssd drive like the ocz horror stories i've read.

 

[Josh Weston]

The Corsair drives are great drives - you would do well with either Crucial or the Corsairs.
I doubt you'd notice the performance difference between the two drives though. Crucial offer some of the, if not THE, best reliability for their products.

 

[Ajay]

The Corsair drives are great drives - you would do well with either Crucial or the Corsairs.
I doubt you'd notice the performance difference between the two drives though. Crucial offer some of the, if not THE, best reliability for their products.

even though the write speeds are about 200mb apart?

 

[yassarikhan786]

As above real world performance will be very similar for both drives. The crucial drive is more reliable though, so it comes down to the price becoming the deciding factor. Again, price wise they are both similar so the most logical choice would be to go for the M4.

EDIT: Unless you will be transferring a lot of files from another location to the SSD, the write speeds do not matter that much.

 

[Ajay]

Why are the M4 Drives so reliable over other brands then?

 

[yassarikhan786]

Why are the M4 Drives so reliable over other brands then?

Crucial probably have the best QC and the return rate is supposedly very low compared to most other SSD brands.

 

[Ajay]

Still sucks i missed the cashback promo intel had
https://ssdcashback.com/promo/uk/en

 

[yassarikhan786]

Yeah it does suck, but unfortunately time cannot be reversed . So what drive are you thinking of purchasing?

 

[Josh Weston]

The vast majority of the time, your drive shall be read from. Most of the write comes from when you first get the drive and start installing stuff, but you're more likely to be hindered by your internet etc.

 

[jamesriley94]

Also, those speeds are at 1024k speeds, windows only operates at very small data rates, at which speed both drives are incredibly similar in performance, thus rendering the read and write times pretty pointless.

My Crucial M4 is faster than my old OCZ agility 3, with a 2 times bigger write speed

 

[Ajay]

Ill proably just go with the m4 i want something thats not going to show any performance decrease after a few months of use, and i have a work line that does just under 100mb so ill have no issues downloading xD

I think im all done with the advice thanks for the help guys ill proably make a post when it all arrives and i have the fun of building it.

 

[Josh Weston]

Just remember to update the firmware of the M4...unless they do that for you now.
P.S. 1,000 posts :rock:

 

[yassarikhan786]

Good choice. As James has pointed out the speeds stated are just the max the drives can hit. The random reads and writes are what you need to look out for.