Need SSd advice, Samsung or Plextor

[Bimbo69]

Hi guys,
I'm planning to buy a new SSD 128gb and found those, price are almost the same and equal with the plextor+adapter 3.5in from silverstone, so these are the options for $200, any opinion about? big tks

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-830-MZ-7P ... ef=lh_ni_t
http://www.amazon.com/Plextor-PX-128M3S ... 95&sr=1-15

 

[Gordo74]

Samsungs are better than Plextor, but for a $200 budget, there is much better bang for the buck.

A Crucial M4 128GB is the best in that class IMO.

Best reliability for an SSD, fast real world tests.

 

[Bimbo69]

Tks Gordo,
so you mean http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-2-5-Inch- ... =de_a_smtd better than samsung? with the adapter the diference is only $20, not bad

 

[Gordo74]

I would rate the M4 as a better drive than the Samsung, yes.

 

[Bimbo69]

Re: Need SSd advice, Samsung or Plextor...decided Crucial but...

I would rate the M4 as a better drive than the Samsung, yes.

Hi Gordo, finally got the crucial m4 128gb ssd2...I works great but I think speed for me is low. I've connected to GSata white port and benchmark is about 192/128 Read/Write and is suppose to be about double. What am I doing wrong? btw trim is enabled and fw is 0309

 

[tom.humphrey]

I'ds go for the crucial too personally

 

[Gordo74]

Re: Need SSd advice, Samsung or Plextor...decided Crucial but...

I would rate the M4 as a better drive than the Samsung, yes.

Hi Gordo, finally got the crucial m4 128gb ssd2...I works great but I think speed for me is low. I've connected to GSata white port and benchmark is about 192/128 Read/Write and is suppose to be about double. What am I doing wrong? btw trim is enabled and fw is 0309

Connect it to one of the intel SATA3 ports. GSATA uses an external controller.

 

[Bimbo69]

Re: Need SSd advice, Samsung or Plextor...decided Crucial but...

I would rate the M4 as a better drive than the Samsung, yes.

Hi Gordo, finally got the crucial m4 128gb ssd2...I works great but I think speed for me is low. I've connected to GSata white port and benchmark is about 192/128 Read/Write and is suppose to be about double. What am I doing wrong? btw trim is enabled and fw is 0309

Connect it to one of the intel SATA3 ports. GSATA uses an external controller.

intel sata3 ports? I have 6 blue ports that are sata2 I guess and these two white....waf

 

[Gordo74]

Ah. I see you have a P55 board. Intel didn't bring SATA3 native until Socket 1155. I think you'd get the best speeds out of connecting it directly to your SATA2 ports controlled by the chipset rather than the SATA3 that is an external chip.

 

[Bimbo69]

Ah. I see you have a P55 board. Intel didn't bring SATA3 native until Socket 1155. I think you'd get the best speeds out of connecting it directly to your SATA2 ports controlled by the chipset rather than the SATA3 that is an external chip.

yup I have a p55a so I have the damn marvell sata3...using the sata 2 ports I've got 250/190 read/write speeds, and using the turbo sata3 from bios I've got 390/190 read/write with the sacrifice of x16 pcie port to 8x, since I have a gt430 is no so bad
big tks