Fastest 120-128 GB SSD on the market

[Ruszli]

So lets be specific.

I am really not impressed by Crucial, but here is a list of 120 GB SSD-s that more or less cost the same and have the highest rated speeds:
Samsung 2.5" 850 EVO
Kingston HyperX 3K
Intel 2.5 530
Toshiba 2.5" Q Pro
OCZ 2.5" R7
OCZ Vertex 460A
Geil Zenith S3
SanDisk Ultra II
Silicon Power S70


But given the suggestions, I guess I will just go with a Samsung 2.5" 850 EVO 250 GB instead. Should be an optimal choice given my needs.

Other alternatives:

Crucial 2.5" MX200

Kingston 2.5" HyperX Fury
OCZ ARC 100
SanDisk 2.5" Ultra II

 

[rtwjunkie]

What's not impressive about Crucial? Our very own W1zzard rated the MX-100 one of the best SSD's he has ever tested! And the MX-200 improves upon it in nearly every stat.

 

[Ruszli]

What's not impressive about Crucial? Our very own W1zzard rated the MX-100 one of the best SSD's he has ever tested! And the MX-200 improves upon it in nearly every stat.

I was talking about the 120 GB tier. The 250 GB is a different story, hence why made "Crucial 2.5" MX200" bold.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I was talking about the 120 GB tier. The 250 GB is a different story, hence why made "Crucial 2.5" MX200".

I I thought you meant the physical size, which I thought was strange because most SSD are 2.5" that are SATA, lol.

 

[peche]

I have been using a crucial m4 64GB, for more than a year, no problems at all, pretty fast… and yes it stil expensive for a 64GB drive,

 

[Dent1]

I wanted to buy Crucial first, but then I saw the Write speeds and that made me quite disappointed.

Don't be disappointed. Read and write speeds quoted are often under the best ideal conditions. You are limited by the quality of your SATA/IDE controller, drivers and configuration so you will never get exactly the same speeds at the back of the box or in the reviews.

Also consider the read and write quotes are based on sequential performance. The random read and write performance can be 1/3 of that.

Write speed isn't solely a good indication of SSD performance. The operating system doesn't write to disk often (usually RAM) and when it does its on background activities like writing to registry etc. - Its un-taxing and isn't a system bottleneck.

The activities which are user executed are mostly read and latency based (boot time, game loading, applications loading, virus scamming etc). This is where you will notice the biggest improve over a regular HDD on a daily basis.

The latency for random access is going to be <0.1ms whichever SSD you purchase so its really not going to make any difference. Get the largest capacity you can afford.

 

[Nosada]

This is a very personal opinion, but the only spec I look at when purchasing an SSD is RANDOM 4k READS.

The reason? This is what your OS disk is doing about 95% of it's time. Fast writes are pointless on a system disk, which should be mostly static data. Sustained reads are mostly good for copying large amounts of data or streaming HD video, but why you would be doing either of that from an SSD unless you have money to spare?

Loading that next dll, booting that next exe or quickly finding that next texture file are things that happen at a rate of a lightyear a minute when you are screwing around in windows or playing a game, which is where you'll feel the largest impact of using an SSD.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Take a look at the prices for Crucial MX100 is they are still arround in your country. Otherwise look at the Crucial BX100.

Those are the best SSD's out there in terms of price/preformance.

especially Samsung have different speeds going from 120GB and to 250GB, that problem does Crucial not have, they have the same speed no matter size.

I can vouch for this. I have put 2 Crucial MX series SSD's in my brother's girlfriends laptop and my mom's laptop and those boot from the Windows logo to desktop in 6 seconds. I have a mushkin 120GB SSD and it takes 14-20seconds. Makes me sad :-\

 

[Ruszli]

Thank you guys for the insights! I will be picking up a Samsung 2.5" 850 EVO 250 GB next week.

Unless there is a reasonable objection of course.

 

[Ebo]

If you buy that, just make sure you DL Samsung software and update your firmware, otherwise you will see slow preformance on your disk within a few months.

 

[Bo$$]

If you buy that, just make sure you DL Samsung software and update your firmware, otherwise you will see slow preformance on your disk within a few months.

only the 840 EVO suffers from that problem, but yes get samsung magician, it's quite a nice program

 

[jboydgolfer]

1- Go with a "good Brand" Samsung/Crucial/Sandisk/ etc....
2- Buy a 250Gb variant ATLEAST , its better to have too much room & not need it, then to need it & not have it.
3- the "pro"/"extreme"/MX , versions will cost more , because they are for those who dont mind paying 20% more for 5% more performance.
4 -You dont need the drives mentioned above, go with Evo 850/ bx100 / ultra II / etc....
5-and finally , common sense, and a little research is Your BEST defense when buying ANYTHING. read Reviews.

and remember, even the SLOWEST SSD will make a platter drive seem slow by comparison, so...shoot for quality NOT speed.

 

[Aquinus]

I find Crucial to be very reliable and cost effective lately. In all seriousness, SSDs are fast because of their low latency, which is why more bandwidth doesn't yield all that much more performance. Even with my two SSDs in RAID-0, I don't notice a difference except when I copy or do synthetic benchmarks. Your best bet is to find the most reliable bang for your buck SSD.

 

[Bo$$]

Samsung offer a 5 year warranty