Could I use an upgrade from a 160gb X25-M G2?

[MangoX]

As the title says, I have had this drive for a number of years now, and it's served me very well. However, I'm itching for an upgrade. A friend wants to buy an SSD to upgrade from his old' mechanical drive and doesn't mind buying mine, so finally a reason to upgrade! I'm justing looking at Samsung right now mostly, so what's the difference between the 840 Pro or EVO? Will I see a huge upgrade coming from my G2s?

 

[Daxwax]

Does your motherboard have SATA3? If yes, you probably will notice an improvement

 

[birthdaymonkey]

In the majority of real world performance situations, I doubt you would notice much of a difference. I have a bunch of SSDs, including a 160GB X25 and Intel 320 and a 512GB 840 Pro. Despite being in much older systems, the SATA2 SSDs rarely feel markedly slower than the 840 Pro.

File copying will be faster, at least. And if you're itching to upgrade, who needs an excuse?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Personally, I'd wait for the price on 1TBs to come down a little more.

 

[TemjinGold]

I went from that exact drive to my current one. No difference noted. I don't regret it tho as I can stop worrying about how many games I have installed now.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I went from that exact drive to my current one. No difference noted. I don't regret it tho as I can stop worrying about how many games I have installed now.

It's not often that both of the pieces of hardware we're talking about are in the bench. So i'mm'a post this here.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/126?vs=805

It's interesting - the M500 completely flogs the old Intel, but the M500 itself is kind of "meh" compared to most of the last couple generations of SSD.

 

[Virgorising]

It's interesting - the M500 completely flogs the old Intel, but the M500 itself is kind of "meh" compared to most of the last couple generations of SSD.

While I am sure U R right about recent generations SSDs....I recently got my first, on sale M500, 240GBs, and even with my board's SATAII controllers, it is not "meh".

 

[BonzaiDuck]

While I am sure U R right about recent generations SSDs....I recently got my first, on sale M500, 240GBs, and even with my board's SATAII controllers, it is not "meh".

Just going from HDD to SATA-II SSD is quite a leap.

Now that I look at this, I see we were well-hyped about SSDs for a long time. There was even some indication of the technology back in the late '90s.

I remember once I spent $800 on a 2GB SCSI-II disk. Nah -- I shouldn't say that -- it's too shameful. I should've saved my money.

So one might go through the exercise of asking whether or not it's worth it -- to buy a $250+ SDD. I suppose if you can't put Wheaties on the breakfast table after buying one, you should wait for a while. Whether or not it's "worth it" is overshadowed by the removal of a longtime bottleneck in storage technology.

 

[Virgorising]

I remember once I spent $800 on a 2GB SCSI-II disk. Nah -- I shouldn't say that -- it's too shameful. I should've saved my money.

Nah, it was right for you at the time. But, OK, TWO GBs? Two? For $800?
I had NO CLUE.

But U bet, these decisions are entirely subjective.....and nobody with the arrogance/inelegance to assume they have the right to tell any other human what to do in such earns any respect from anyone I know personally.

TWO GBS??? I don find it shocking you did that; I find it shocking such a thing existed.
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Edit: to demonstrate the not "meh" of my new wee Crucial drive, even with the limitations of my controllers---knew all that when I chose the system---I will put up screenie I just made. So, I now encourage others to do this IF they choose and can afford, but I would never PUSH ANYONE. Again, remember, this board has SATA 2 controllers.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

TWO GBS??? I don find it shocking you did that; I find it shocking such a thing existed.

My first hard drive.

...delivering considerably faster data transfer rates (up to 1.25 megabytes per second) than its predecessors...

Although, in fairness, the entire OS was 200kB - it would boot in 11 seconds too. :awe:

 

[birthdaymonkey]

Yes, just getting into solid state storage is the leap, like moving up to SCSI in days of yore. Beyond that, getting a faster SSD is just gravy.

 

[alzan]

Just going from HDD to SATA-II SSD is quite a leap.

Now that I look at this, I see we were well-hyped about SSDs for a long time. There was even some indication of the technology back in the late '90s.

I remember once I spent $800 on a 2GB SCSI-II disk. Nah -- I shouldn't say that -- it's too shameful. I should've saved my money.

So one might go through the exercise of asking whether or not it's worth it -- to buy a $250+ SDD. I suppose if you can't put Wheaties on the breakfast table after buying one, you should wait for a while. Whether or not it's "worth it" is overshadowed by the removal of a longtime bottleneck in storage technology.

Good, that means I don't have to mention my $200 Plextor PlexWriter CD\CDRW; or the other SCSI drives in my "SCSI-EATS-IDE-FOR-BREAKFAST" machine. I willingly asked vendors to take advantage of me, which they did. As they say, "One hand on my shoulder, okay. Two hands on my shoulder, not okay!"

At least I got a reach-around.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Nah, it was right for you at the time. But, OK, TWO GBs? Two? For $800?
I had NO CLUE.

But U bet, these decisions are entirely subjective.....and nobody with the arrogance/inelegance to assume they have the right to tell any other human what to do in such earns any respect from anyone I know personally.

TWO GBS??? I don find it shocking you did that; I find it shocking such a thing existed.

Probably between 1995 and 1997 to my best recollection. I'm trying to remember the size of mainstream boot disks from that time, and I simply don't remember. From the late '80s, I remember I had two 20 MB (MMM!! Bytes!) Western Digital HDDs. I just remember the size of that SCSI_2 drive and what I'd paid for it. I think that 1997 marked the first appearance of the Pentium-II processor, which inserted vertically into a slot with two latches like those we find for today's desktop RAM modules, only bigger.

 

[Virgorising]

My first hard drive.

Although, in fairness, the entire OS was 200kB - it would boot in 11 seconds too. :awe:

O! LOOK AT THAT!!! That....is gorgeous! Like a classic car. Course if it had any real capacity, it would not have booted in 11 seconds.:sneaky: But I think it's very beautiful.

Imagine, an OS that was was 200KBs!

 

[Virgorising]

Good, that means I don't have to mention my $200 Plextor PlexWriter CD\CDRW; or the other SCSI drives in my "SCSI-EATS-IDE-FOR-BREAKFAST" machine. I willingly asked vendors to take advantage of me, which they did. As they say, "One hand on my shoulder, okay. Two hands on my shoulder, not okay!"

At least I got a reach-around.

But, it was (still is) yr intense PASSION!!!!! THAT trumps EVERYTHING!!!