SSD selection

[l1amrob]

Im building a system for a friend but he wants to buy from his local shop. They have 2 options for a SSD around the 500Gb mark, the OCZ ARC-100 and Kingston V300 480. The OCZ is around 10$ cheaper. What do do you guys recon?

 

[denis280]

The only choice your sure. well go with the kingston

 

[Blastman]

Definitely get the OCZ ARC-100 over the Kingston V300. Don't even consider the V300.

Kingston SSD V300 fiasco ...

http://www.overclock.net/t/1380526/kingston-v300-help
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2372270
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2372767

Basically, Kingston shipped the original V300 with synchronous NAND and performance was good/very good for a budget SSD and better than the V200 in the reviews. After the initial batch of SSDs were shipped and out for a month or so and reviewed, Kingston then switched the V300 manufacturing to asynchronous NAND and the performance tanked in some scenarios (incompressible data). Your basic "bait and switch."

The switch from synchronous to asynchronous NAND likely wouldn't have really mattered much if the performance had stayed about the same across the board -- but it didn't. The V300's performance tanks badly with incompressible data. Sure, it's much faster than a HDD (Kingston's defense), but there are much better performing budget SSD's out there for the money.

Another SSD to consider is the Crucial MX100. The 512GB model has excellent performance.

 

[Charlie98]

Another SSD to consider is the Crucial MX100.

OP didn't list it as one of his local options... :\ Too bad.

I'd probably take the OCZ, too.

 

[corkyg]

Of the two, the OCZ is better since they are now backed by Toshiba.

 

[lukart]

All Arc capacities win significantly in 4K writes (only 28K IOPS on the 480GB) vs Kingston V300 drive.
Besides, like Corkyg said They are now backed by Toshiba, thats gives me alot of confidence on them. Already own few drives from them and they don't disappoint .

 

[l1amrob]

Thanks everyone. I going with the ARC-100. Looks pretty decent drive and great pricing 😀