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Fast Reliable SSD?

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I have a Sandisk Extreme as my main drive for OSX and it is very very fast, however if you have a lot of incompressible data (like music, photos, movies ... which you usually don't on a boot drive) it gets pretty slow because of the sandforce controller. An advantage is you don't have to use trim enabler in OSX, because it's sandforce chipset handles garbage collection by itself.

The Samsung 830 is still a pretty amazing all-round drive and is fast with both compressible and incompressible data. For the price it's hard to beat. There is also the Crucial M4, but I would rather go for the Samsung as they cost the same and Samsung is faster.

Even better (but more expensive) are:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820233226
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820249020
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820139599
 
Well I plan to use the SSD for just OSX, and Adobe CS6, along with any other applications. I have a 1TB HDD to store everything else on.
 
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