DarkRogue
Golden Member
Hey guys,
I've been waiting for a couple months now to purchase my first SSD.
I'm still on a relatively ancient 150GB Raptor, and on XP, but it's still working, so I haven't absolutely needed to upgrade yet.
Of course, XP is also fairly ancient, and I'm starting to feel the desire to put Win7 on my PC. I'm not going to bother reinstalling my system and apps just for that though, so an SSD is also a good excuse to lay XP to rest. ("Because I have to install something anyway...")
In any case, it's still not critical, so I can wait if need be. However, most of the Gen3 stuff is out in the open now, so I think it's time I made a decision about them.
I'm looking to get an SSD about 250GB or so in size. Main reason is I really do not want to deal with splitting Steam and other stuff onto another hard drive. I don't have a billion games either, so I might be able to get away with it. FWIW, I'm currently using about 120GB on my Raptor (no pagefile; I moved it to another HDD.) I'm stuck here because I don't have enough space to install additional games like Witcher, Dragon Age, BioShock2, etc. (Damn you, Steam sales.)
In any case, I'm largely trying to go by price/performance.
Judging by the benchmarks and proposed/current pricing, it looks like the Crucial C300 256GB and the Crucial M4 256GB are my best bets. Of course, the M4's aren't out yet (going by the $455 price for the C400 on Superbiiz) but I wouldn't mind waiting for them if it's worth it. On the other hand, Newegg has a sale going on for the Crucial C300 256GB right now for $420 shipped, which I am really tempted by. It seems the cheapest I'm going to get for a quality drive of this size for a while.
TL;DR version:
Should I go for the 256GB C300 now, or wait for (and pay more for) the 256GB M4?
I've been waiting for a couple months now to purchase my first SSD.
I'm still on a relatively ancient 150GB Raptor, and on XP, but it's still working, so I haven't absolutely needed to upgrade yet.
Of course, XP is also fairly ancient, and I'm starting to feel the desire to put Win7 on my PC. I'm not going to bother reinstalling my system and apps just for that though, so an SSD is also a good excuse to lay XP to rest. ("Because I have to install something anyway...")
In any case, it's still not critical, so I can wait if need be. However, most of the Gen3 stuff is out in the open now, so I think it's time I made a decision about them.
I'm looking to get an SSD about 250GB or so in size. Main reason is I really do not want to deal with splitting Steam and other stuff onto another hard drive. I don't have a billion games either, so I might be able to get away with it. FWIW, I'm currently using about 120GB on my Raptor (no pagefile; I moved it to another HDD.) I'm stuck here because I don't have enough space to install additional games like Witcher, Dragon Age, BioShock2, etc. (Damn you, Steam sales.)
In any case, I'm largely trying to go by price/performance.
Judging by the benchmarks and proposed/current pricing, it looks like the Crucial C300 256GB and the Crucial M4 256GB are my best bets. Of course, the M4's aren't out yet (going by the $455 price for the C400 on Superbiiz) but I wouldn't mind waiting for them if it's worth it. On the other hand, Newegg has a sale going on for the Crucial C300 256GB right now for $420 shipped, which I am really tempted by. It seems the cheapest I'm going to get for a quality drive of this size for a while.
TL;DR version:
Should I go for the 256GB C300 now, or wait for (and pay more for) the 256GB M4?
