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SSD; battle royale! Which to pick?

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Narrowed it down to these following options:

 

- Samsung 840 EVO 1TB - £292.50

- SanDisk Extreme Pro 960GB - £374.79

- SanDisk Ultra II 960GB - £299.98

- Crucial M500 960GB - £299.48

 

Which should I go for?

 

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prepare for samsung fanboys

 

 

 

 

 

 

i would choose samsung too out of your selection

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Narrowed it down to these following options:

 

I would get 2x crucial mx100 512s and shove them in raid 0...... same price and higher perforamance (assuming you have the slots)

 

if not the Evos are great but there have been issues that require a firmware update

 

Personally not used the sandisks so no comment

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840 EVO, it's the cheapest and know for it's ultra reliability.

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I would get 2x crucial mx100 512s and shove them in raid 0...... same price and higher perforamance (assuming you have the slots)

if not the Evos are great but there have been issues that require a firmware update

Personally not used the sandisks so no comment

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None. Get a Seagate 600 Series SSD.

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I would get 2x crucial mx100 512s and shove them in raid 0...... same price and higher perforamance (assuming you have the slots)

 

if not the Evos are great but there have been issues that require a firmware update

 

Personally not used the sandisks so no comment

 

I have one 2.5" SATA III slot available.

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I have one 2.5" SATA III slot available.

 

Oh is it for your p35x? I want to get that laptop :3

 

Personally I would go for the samsung, preferably not the evo model but I have had great success with them so far (the problem they had is fixable with a firmware  update)

 

avoid the m500, its a bit old and slow

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samsung 840 evo- Firmware problems and slower with small files

sandisk extreme pro- better than ultra ii but does not support TCG opal 2.0 and eDrive encryption like 840 evo

sandisk ultra ii- same as extreme pro yet slower

crucial m500- does not support tcg opal 2.0 and eDrive encryption and is slower than the other drives.  Would suggest m550 over this though

 

 

840 evo is the best overall choice

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Oh is it for your p35x? I want to get that laptop :3

 

Personally I would go for the samsung, preferably not the evo model but I have had great success with them so far (the problem they had is fixable with a firmware  update)

 

avoid the m500, its a bit old and slow

 

Yes, it is. It's a great laptop :)

 

Yeah, I want to go Samsung but the firmware issue is a bit concerning...

 

samsung 840 evo- Firmware problems and slower with small files

sandisk extreme pro- better than ultra ii but does not support TCG opal 2.0 and eDrive encryption like 840 evo

sandisk ultra ii- same as extreme pro yet slower

crucial m500- does not support tcg opal 2.0 and eDrive encryption and is slower than the other drives.  Would suggest m550 over this though

 

 

840 evo is the best overall choice

 

Does the fix permanently fix the firmware? Have people noticed the same issue cropping up again since the restoration tool was released?

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Yes, it is. It's a great laptop :)

Yeah, I want to go Samsung but the firmware issue is a bit concerning...

Does the fix permanently fix the firmware? Have people noticed the same issue cropping up again since the restoration tool was released?

 

Well I just need to sell my current laptop and order it, though selling is proving the hard part, maybe ill just finance it haha!

 

You should do a members review of it (or just bring it to my house)

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Well I just need to sell my current laptop and order it, though selling is proving the hard part, maybe ill just finance it haha!

 

You should do a members review of it (or just bring it to my house)

 

I have a review-in-progress over on these forums: http://forum.notebookreview.com/gigabyte/764645-gigabyte-p35x-v3-owner-s-lounge.html

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I would get the cheapest, as long as they were introduced at least on late 2012. Two MX100 512GB wouldn't be bad neither as the sweet spot for SSDs is 256~512GB of space (read it somewhere, can't remember where though, but I'm pretty sure there's a sweet spot for how big the SSD is).

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