Intel 510 120GB or 320 160GB?

[seeb]

Hey there, I can't decide which one of these two would fit my needs best.

Most important to me is a snappy, very responsive behaviour when it comes
to opening applications.
Even if there is just a slight advantage of 1 or 2 seconds when opening iTunes, Openoffice, Photoshop, etc. it's important to me 🙂

I really dont get why no review benches the responsiveness of ssds when it comes to opening programs. It could be easily done by just opening 4 or 6 applications at the same time using a batch file.

Moreover bootup time is also important to me but as far as I read, the bootup times between those two drives are almost the same.

It would be great to hear from someone who used the Intel G2 and switched now to the 510, because I dont think the responsiveness changed that much between the G2 and the 320 and such a direct comparison would be great!

Thanks in advance for your help 🙂

PS: Starting applications = sequential read, right? Since the data is one after the other?

 

[Termie]

Here you go: http://www.techspot.com/review/340-samsung-470-series-ssd/page6.html

Doesn't have your specific drives, but can guess they'd be pretty close. And no, that's not a sequential test - the data is coming from different parts of the drive.

 

[Zap]

Here you go: http://www.techspot.com/review/340-samsung-470-series-ssd/page6.html

Nice. In some things all the SSDs perform nearly the same. In others the SSDs with newer controllers perform better. Then there are instances where the larger SSDs perform better.

And of course HDDs (not counting the hybrid) are left far behind.

All is as expected. ANY SSD is more important than WHICH SSD.

 

[seeb]

Hey, thanks so far!

Totally strange that this Samsung drive on the other hand has the worst app-start performance in a german test:
http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/laufwerke/2010/test-ssd-roundup/7/#abschnitt_anwendungsstarts

Anwendungsstarts=app-start
genutzt=used

 

[Bauss]

Long story short, as many others have said, people usually don't test loading times because it's pretty much been a wash since SSDs became good a few years ago.

If that's your only concern, get the one with the lowest price and call it a day.

 

[seeb]

Long story short, as many others have said, people usually don't test loading times because it's pretty much been a wash since SSDs became good a few years ago.

If that's your only concern, get the one with the lowest price and call it a day.

Well, I wouldn't agree with that in terms of termies link. Those differences are highly significant from my pov.
I really would love to see those app-starting times with the new intel drives :/