buying SSD -128 GB and hard choice

[Kowaki]

Dear guys,

I want to buy a new SSD. I looked through the lot of the test and I can not cope with the chose.
I do not know what to choose - Crucial m4 128 GB or Samsung 830 128 GB. At the moment I have a motherboard with SATA II. In the future I'm going to buy a new computer with SATA III.
I need the disk to the system + applications (MSI Afterburner, Xfire, Kaspersky, drivers) + Games (1-2), my storage is a Samsung 500GB F3.

I have a few questions:



Which of these producers frequently releases firmware ?

Which is better as a drive to the system ?

Which is less emergency ?

Wnich is faster ? From what I saw is Crucial is better in the 4K files and the Samsung is better in the files 128K ? What does it mean ? 4K files are often in everyday use ?



I assume that the disks are the same price

For me, the Samsung has a small advantage over the Crucial - service is in my town. Crucial have service in the UK :/

Help me, I'm a totall newbie

Greetings !

Sorry for my poor english.

 

[Burner27]

Greetings and welcome to the forums!

If you haven't read the reviews sticky at the top of this forum, that would be a great place to start.

In regards to your choice of SSDs you can't go wrong with either. Price will be your ultimate decision if you have a budget.

 

[Coup27]

Both drives have been supported well by the manufacturer. Remember that while frequent firmware updates indicate good support, if they are bug fixes, they will also indicate more things got through the net on the last firmware. Samsung have a strong OEM relationship and the 830 has been out for a good 6 months and it has only received one firmware update. Technically it has been 2, but the 2nd contained the same firmware but fixed a bug in the actual update tool. Both are reliable drives.

Intel's 510 has never received a firmware update but thats because it doesn't need one. Thats a sign of good testing and validation before release.

Overall the Samsung is the faster drive and it also has a good toolbox program. That would be by choice.

 

[kmmatney]

Either one (flip a coin). I have a 256GB Samsung 830, and my co-worker has a Crucial M4. They are both fast and reliable. Crucial will use the same NAND as the Intel consumer SSDs (made by IM Flash, in the U.S.) while Samsung will use Samsung flash.

 

[jhansman]

Just bought the Samsung 128GB on Amazon for $159 and two-day shipping. With Prime, I'm getting more and more computer gear there and less from Newegg to save on sales tax and NE's sometimes slow shipping. Either drive will serve you well.

 

[dashumshop]

I am deciding which SSD to get Intel SSD 120Gb 520 or 330 ???

330 is about $35 cheaper, but only come with 3 years warranty.

which one should I get ?? or I should look into others ?

 

[dashumshop]

I am deciding which SSD to get, Intel SSD 120Gb 520 or 330 ???

330 is about $35 cheaper, but only come with 3 years warranty.

which one should I get ?? or I should look into others ?

 

[razel]

I am deciding which SSD to get Intel SSD 120Gb 520 or 330 ???

I should look into others ?

I would into others. Both are 2nd gen Sandforce controllers they all can reach a worse case issue that it cannot get out of. Not even Intel's firmware has a fix or it... or at least not yet.

To be fair it is a case where you write and beat the SSD to a point where it will throw that karma back to you. So it will not happen to the average user. AKA friends and family.

The SSDs the OP are considering are what I would buy especially at if you can find it at the $1.25 per GIG price.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

The Intel® SSD 330 and 520 are both good drives that I haven't heard any issues with (So razel if you have heard of continuing firmwear problem let me know). The Intel SSD 520 is a better performing drive but most people would have a hard time telling if their SSD is running on a SATA II or SATA III port.

 

[groberts101]

Both are 2nd gen Sandforce controllers they all can reach a worse case issue that it cannot get out of. Not even Intel's firmware has a fix or it... or at least not yet.

To be fair it is a case where you write and beat the SSD to a point where it will throw that karma back to you. So it will not happen to the average user. AKA friends and family.

That is most definately incorrect information there and would only be applicable to first gen Sandforce 1xxx series based drives.

The SF-228x based drives will NOT write/lifetime throttle like the first gens and can recover MUCH more quickly as a result of more aggressive recovery algorithms due to the larger recycling engine.

I've tested the snot out of mine with TB's worth of random data(worst case for any controller and particularly the Sandforce controller) and even though the drive may slow down temporarily?.. it will speed right back up to near fresh speeds once its internal algorithms can play catch up during on-the-fly recovery modes. TRIM or no-TRIM. And I would never assume that Intel's SF-2xxx based drives would be any different in that respect.