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Advice on $150 SSD

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MountainKing

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Hi guys. Need an advice on a SSD which needs to be shipped to Mauritius from ebay.

So far, I've had those 2 in my price range.

1. Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
2. Seagate 600 240GB

What would you consider the better option? Any other SSD's in this price range and performance? Thanks.
 
If you can get the 240GB Seagate for the price of the 120GB Samsung, I'd get the Seagate.

Both would be excellent drives, though.
 
While I believe that Intel and Samsung are at the top of the pile, I recently tried a 60GB Mushkin Chronos for my WHS boot disk. The biggest drawback: It requires AHCI-mode configuration to update the firmware, and this firmware-upgrade problem is discussed in another contemporary thread here.

It makes you wonder about price differences on the same capacity and performance specs, though.
 
BonzaiDuck said:
While I believe that Intel and Samsung are at the top of the pile, I recently tried a 60GB Mushkin Chronos for my WHS boot disk. The biggest drawback: It requires AHCI-mode configuration to update the firmware, and this firmware-upgrade problem is discussed in another contemporary thread here.

It makes you wonder about price differences on the same capacity and performance specs, though.
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I've never had an SSD that didn't require AHCI be enabled for a firmware update to work.

And since I ditched my last Core 2 rig, it hasn't been an issue. 🙂
 
Yeah thought AHCI was part of it more or less, have a couple of those EVO's in here myself.

I know nothing about the Seagate ones.

I dislike their HHD's myself, but maybe that's just me.
 
MongGrel said:
Yeah thought AHCI was part of it more or less, have a couple of those EVO's in here myself.

I know nothing about the Seagate ones.

I dislike their HHD's myself, but maybe that's just me.
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Well, let me make my disclaimer-excuse: I'm old; I forget some things; and what I remember may not be precisely what I should remember.

But this rig I'm using at the moment: I set it up with ISRT from the git-go. So I had to set the Intel SATA controller to RAID mode. At first, I used an Intel Elm Crest. I'm only "pretty sure" I flashed the firmware with the Intel SSD connected in RAID mode. But I soon after replaced the Elm Crest with a smaller Patriot Pyro, and I'm SURE that I flashed the firmware successfully in the same configuration.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
I've never had an SSD that didn't require AHCI be enabled for a firmware update to work.

And since I ditched my last Core 2 rig, it hasn't been an issue. 🙂
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Many SSDs with Indilinx controllers required IDE mode for BIOS flashes--OCZ, Corsair, and others. They ran in AHCI mode the rest of the time, but had to be switched to IDE when flashing.
 
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