recommendation of budget SSD

[R0H1T]

Well the OCZ ARC 100 & Transcend SSD370 for me cause they're pretty cheap, reliable & have better performance than most of the bunch you listed, also both of'em are fairly new(ish) models so expect better support going into the future.

 

[Hellhammer]

I think Crucial still is the best all round choice for consumers. It has all the protections you want for a desktop: RAID5 bitcorrection and capacitors, so resilient against bad pages (high uBER) and resilient against unexpected power-loss.

Crucial's client-level SSDs do not have proper power-loss protection, that was misleading marketing on Micron's/Crucial's behalf.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8528/micron-m600-128gb-256gb-1tb-ssd-review-nda-placeholder

 

[Coup27]

Personally, I think the whole power loss protection thing for consumer SSD's is a non-issue in the first place.

Any consumer who wants 100% total power loss failure protection would invest in a little book sized UPS anyway. That way they get to shut their whole system down safely. These's UPS's are quite cheap now as well.

 

[R0H1T]

I think Crucial still is the best all round choice for consumers. It has all the protections you want for a desktop: RAID5 bitcorrection and capacitors, so resilient against bad pages (high uBER) and resilient against unexpected power-loss. The read performance is excellent, the write performance depends on the size of the model. Only the 512GB model has almost SATA/600 capped writes. This shows off as a huge difference in the benchmarks, but in reality a small SSD will have only the OS and a few games on it. When will you be writing 500MB/s to it? You might read 500MB/s quite often though, when starting a game after a reboot. So benchmarks usually are misleading in that they favor writing while in reality reading is more common. The cause - i think - is that the captured I/O is performed at maximum speed and inaccurately timed queue depth. While in reality 4K writes happen in bunches with time in between, which all modern SSDs handle quite well.

I'm surprised people still use this as an argument in favor of some SSD's as it's been debunked many a times now, also no consumer drives (that I know of) offers full data loss protection not even the Intel SSD 730.

 

[Turab]

Crucial BX100 also performs very solid for an entry level drive. Kristian has just published the review:

http://anandtech.com/show/9144/crucial-bx100-120gb-250gb-500gb-1tb-ssd-review