Which SSD?

[pcslookout]

Looking for a new SSD I am coming from a 128 GB M4 Crucial SSD would a newer one be much faster or even worth it ?

My budget is $200

 

[BlueWeasel]

What size are you looking for - 500GB or 1TB?

For $200, you could the fastest drives (ie, Samsung 850 EVO or 850 Pro), or some of the 1TB entry TLC level drives (but still damn fast).

 

[pcslookout]

What size are you looking for - 500GB or 1TB?

For $200, you could the fastest drives (ie, Samsung 850 EVO or 850 Pro), or some of the 1TB entry TLC level drives (but still damn fast).

500 GB

Is the Samsung 850 Pro noticeable faster than a older Crucial M4 128 GB SSD ?

 

[Blastman]

500 GB

Is the Samsung 850 Pro noticeable faster than a older Crucial M4 128 GB SSD ?

They will benchmark faster, but in everyday use for the majority of users and situations, I doubt you'd really notice a difference. The older smaller drives like the M4 128GB will have quite a bit slower write speeds (about 185MB/s) but it will still read at 500MB/s -- so loading programs and games will essentially be the same speed as a newer larger SSD. Only if you're doing a ton of writing to the drive will you notice any significant difference as the newer larger faster SSD's like the 850pro will be about 500MB/s write.

If my budget was $200 I would probably go bigger than 500GB as there are very good 1TB SSD's for about $200 these days. Go big or go home ...LOL ... :biggrin:.

The Mushkin Enhanced Reactor .. which is $205 right now.

It's rated 560/460 read/write, so while it gives up a little on the write speed side, it's as fast for loading anything as the higher priced drives, and the small margin in slower write speeds it gives up won't really mean much. I would much rather have a 1TB dive rated at 560/460 than a 500GB drive at 560/520 for the same price. It's got a Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller (vg) and Micron MLC flash which is excellent (no TLC planar flash which I would only buy if I was going for the cheapest SSD available).

Mushkin's Reactor 1TB SSD reviewed

 

[pcslookout]

Thanks.

 

[Elixer]

I would stay away from planar TLC, and use MLC based SSDs instead, or you can try 3D TLC, but, there hasn't been lots of testing in the real world to know for sure how good it is compared to the planar version.