What drive should I get?

[wkelly]

I can't decide between getting a toshiba 500GB SSHD or a kingston V300 SSD 120GB. 

Please help!

[insayan]

Kingston, unless it'll be your only drive in your system.

[Sakkura]

Kingston V300 is slow after they swapped to asynchronous NAND. Still faster than the HDD part of that SSHD, but with the extra capacity I would probably go Toshiba. Depends how much storage space you need too, of course.

[Aniallation]

I can't decide between getting a toshiba 500GB SSHD or a kingston V300 SSD 120GB. 

Please help!

Toshiba if a single drive. The V300 is an awful SSD. The extra storage of the 500GB will be better if you're using it as one boot drive.

 

If you're able to live with the capacity of just a single SSD or you are going to have a separate HDD then spend a bit more and get a proper SSD that actually performs well, such as the ADATA SP900.

[s3ns3]

that toshiba is 5400 rpm? get the ssd. but a better one like the crucial mx100

[wkelly]

Kingston V300 is slow after they swapped to asynchronous NAND. Still faster than the HDD part of that SSHD, but with the extra capacity I would probably go Toshiba. Depends how much storage space you need too, of course.

I really need 500GB so should i go for the SSHD

[babadoctor]

Western Digital

[Sakkura]

I really need 500GB so should i go for the SSHD

 

In that case yes, absolutely.

 

[s3ns3]

I really need 500GB so should i go for the SSHD

will you use it as a boot drive ? couse in that case no,its 5400rpm for sure. if you use it for storage then get a normal 1tb drive

 

 

The V300 is an awful SSD.

doesn`t matter the average consumer can`t tell the difference. heck even you couldn`t without benchmarks.couse it still has fast acces times

[Aniallation]

I really need 500GB so should i go for the SSHD

Yes definitely, if you can only have one drive.

 

doesn`t matter the average consumer can`t tell the difference. heck even you couldn`t without benchmarks.couse it still has fast acces times

Yes they will. The V300 is barely faster then a WD Black. 

[s3ns3]

 

Yes they will. The V300 is barely faster then a WD Black. 

no they won`t. its not barely faster. sure in sequential read/writes but you don`t copy/paste big files 24/7. SSD are fast because of the acces times and random speeds

[Guest Philosophy]

Toshiba if a single drive. The V300 is an awful SSD. The extra storage of the 500GB will be better if you're using it as one boot drive.

 

If you're able to live with the capacity of just a single SSD or you are going to have a separate HDD then spend a bit more and get a proper SSD that actually performs well, such as the ADATA SP900.

That sums it up. I have a ADATA SP900 and a couple OCZ Arc 100s there both great!

[Sakkura]

Yes definitely, if you can only have one drive.

 

Yes they will. The V300 is barely faster then a WD Black. 

 

Epic nearly 400 IOPS with the WD Black.

 

Terrible 4K-32K IOPS with the bad V300.

 

[Captain_WD]

I can't decide between getting a toshiba 500GB SSHD or a kingston V300 SSD 120GB. 

Please help!

 

 

Hey wkelly,

 

It really depends on what you are going to do with the drive. For simple storage, a regular HDD would do just fine (WD Blue for example). If you need a boot drive, SSD would bring you better performance but would be more costly in terms of $/GB. If you are using just a couple of programs, SSHD would make sence. Other than that I would recommend lookign at a SSD+HDD combination.

Here's a link to WD Blue if you decide to check it out: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=8xHH82

 

Captain_WD