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kieranswhite
By kieranswhite
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Hi guys,

 

i currently have a Samsung 840 EVO SSD (120gb) in my PC and i'm looking to increase my SSD storage capacity.

The dilemma i am facing is whether to buy a 120gb m.2 ssd for around £65($97) or buy a standard 120gb SSD for around £45 ($67) and put that in RAID 0 with my current SSD.

 

Could you give me your thoughts and advice? Much appreciated.. 

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Hi guys,

 

i currently have a Samsung 840 EVO SSD (120gb) in my PC and i'm looking to increase my SSD storage capacity.

The dilemma i am facing is whether to buy a 120gb m.2 ssd for around £65($97) or buy a standard 120gb SSD for around £45 ($67) and put that in RAID 0 with my current SSD.

 

Could you give me your thoughts and advice? Much appreciated.. 

Im thinking that the normal SATA SSD is the kingston V300, so.... Don't buy it, Low write/read speeds.

Get the m.2 if your motherboard supports it.

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A single drive is usually better. Less potential issues, fewer points of failure.

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Im thinking that the normal SATA SSD is the kingston V300, so.... Don't buy it, Low write/read speeds.

Get the m.2 if your motherboard supports it.

read speeds with the v300 are actually ok, writes are shit though

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Wouldn't bother to buy it either way.... It's such a waste of money investing on that SSD.

I completely agree unfortunately i bought one during the bait and switch fiasco

so i got fucked over but didnt know at the time :(, thankfully its only for a boot drive and i get 450 reads so it works fine as an OS drive

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I completely agree unfortunately i bought one during the bait and switch fiasco

so i got fucked over but didnt know at the time :(, thankfully its only for a boot drive and i get 450 reads so it works fine as an OS drive

I feel for you mate D:

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