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Hey forum, I have a dilemma.

 

So I waited for Prime Day to come around.

I was going to buy an 850 Evo 250GB, so I did.

Then there was a good deal on the BX100 250GB, so I bought that too. I now have both.

 

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I know that the 850 Evo is worth more and should perform a bit better and that the BX100 should perform only slightly worse and is meant to be more reliable, but I'm wondering: What should I do with them?

1) Do I use the 850 Evo and try to sell the BX100?

2) Do I use the BX100 and try to sell the 850 Evo?

3) Do I use both and call it a super awesome upgrade? If so, should I/can I raid them to have a ~500GB effective boot drive at about 1GB/s?

 

Both SSDs are still in the box as of time of posting.

 

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raid :P

 

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Use one for your games?

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I would keep 850 Evo and sell BX100 later on.

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Well.... I have 2 SSDs and use one just to put Skyrim on it. 

You could also save one of the SSDs for a smaller build.

 

 

Or you could give me one of them  :ph34r: 

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Well if you were to sell it what would you get instead?

 

If I were to keep 1 of them I'd keep the 850 EVO. But in raid....holy shit, best boot drive ever! You'd easily get 1GB/s.

 

IMO I would just raid em' and be done with it. 500GB of insanely fast storage to put all of your big files on. You could put some pretty big games on there and still have plenty of room.

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Givaway?  :D

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send one my way ;)

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those are both 250GB versions, right?

Raid 0 is the way to go then.

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Isn't the BX less reliable?

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Isn't the BX less reliable?

I don't know. I've heard that Crucial SSDs are designed with reliability in mind more than other brands and that it generally shows.

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I don't know. I've heard that Crucial SSDs are designed with reliability in mind more than other brands and that it generally shows.

The MX yes But the bx...

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The MX yes But the bx...

I'm looking into it.

If I were to raid 0 them and use Windows 7, should stuff like TRIM just work?

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The MX yes But the bx...

it's pretty good.

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I'm looking into it.

If I were to raid 0 them and use Windows 7, should stuff like TRIM just work?

Yeah it'll work just fine.

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those are both 250GB versions, right?

Raid 0 is the way to go then.

 

 

Isn't the BX less reliable?

 

 

it's pretty good.

Now I have another question about the BX100.

 

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It says 72TB endurance - does that mean overall or per day or something?

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Now I have another question about the BX100.

 

 

It says 72TB endurance - does that mean overall or per day or something?

No I think that's in it's life time.

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No I think that's in it's life time.

Right. Because that seems kinda low compared to what the old 840 Pro managed to do.

But then I'm assuming that I can generally expect that I can get more than the rating and that it's not a huge deal in the first place?

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Right. Because that seems kinda low compared to what the old 840 Pro managed to do.

But then I'm assuming that I can generally expect that I can get more than the rating and that it's not a huge deal in the first place?

Definitely. I wouldn't worry about it at all.

 

Raid 0 those puppies and enjoy those 1GB/s speeds :D

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Definitely. I wouldn't worry about it at all.

 

Raid 0 those puppies and enjoy those 1GB/s speeds :D

Right. I've just seen a video where people tested the 840 Pro and wrote 2500 or so TB out of it before it just outright died, and I'm thinking that this seems pretty low compared to that.

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Yeah it'll work just fine.

 

 

 

 

I suppose you bought an SSD with the intention to use it. So use the Samsung as internal and turn the BX100 into a blazing fast portable drive.

 

 

Either RAID, or use one in another computer.

Right, well I guess I'm gonna raid them. It just feels weird raiding 2 different SSDs.

 

Any strong arguments against doing it before I go ahead?

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Right, well I guess I'm gonna raid them. It just feels weird raiding 2 different SSDs.

 

Any strong arguments against doing it before I go ahead?

The only "issue" I could foresee is that, if one SSD is advertised to run faster than the other one, then they will both run at the slowest speed. If the slower SSD was going to be fast enough for you, then this won't be a problem.

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