POLL: Desktop SSDs, Pls Vote

[Virgorising]

I tried to delete all but one of the images; maybe this will paste now. Below what Crucial recommends as compatible with my system. Obviously no Samsung EVOs, but I trust Crucial. I wonder who makes these drives for them?


[FONT=&quot]Crucial M500 120GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD • 500 MB/s Read / 130 MB/s Write • Part #: CT3922661[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot] $79.99[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Crucial M550 128GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Crucial M550 128GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD • 550 MB/s Read, 350 MB/s Write • Part #: CT4655704[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot] $97.99[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Crucial M500 240GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD • 500 MB/s Read / 250 MB/s Write • Part #: CT3933826[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot] $129.99[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Crucial M550 256GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Crucial M550 256GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD • 550 MB/s Read, 500 MB/s Write • Part #: CT4743740[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot] $164.99[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Crucial M500 480GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Crucial M500 480GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD • 500 MB/s Read / 400 MB/s Write • Part #: CT3944990[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot] $259.99[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Crucial M550 512GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Crucial M550 512GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD • 550 MB/s Read, 500 MB/s Write • Part #: CT4754107[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot] $329.99[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Crucial M500 960GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Crucial M500 960GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD • 500 MB/s Read / 400 MB/s Write • Part #: CT3956154[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot] $518.99[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Crucial M550 1TB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Crucial M550 1024GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD • 550 MB/s Read, 500 MB/s Write • Part #: CT4808040[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot] $524.99[/FONT]

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[Virgorising]

SSD only. 480GB Crucial M500 for desktop, 128GB Toshiba Q series for laptop.

I am impressed by the "ONLY." Tell me, do you have to do a lot of alignments? Clean installs on yr big Crucial M500? And, why did you choose Crucial as opposed to say Samsung EVO?

I just pasted (above) the results of what Crucial recommends for me after their utility read this system. Not sure wut the differences are among the 250GB ones they recommend for me., cept obviously faster read/write for the more expensive ones. And, most of these are on sale.

Hadda delete the images cause site says too many.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The Crucial M550 is their newer drive, it's slight more expensive, slightly faster, and has slightly more user-accessable capacity. I am unsure if there was any sort of controller change.

The M500 is their now-prior-gen SSD, so it's on firesale prices to clear out old stock. It's a pretty solid drive as I understand it. It has power-backup capacitors (the only other consumer drive that I am aware of that has them is the Seagate 600 Pro). Those help to prevent bricked / corrupted SSDs due to power glitches.

I would have no qualms purchasing either drive. I had contemplated getting a few of the 240GB M500 SATA6G units for $110 on sale recently, but I ended up spending some money on a 19.5" AIO PC that I got for cheap at Staples.

 

[Virgorising]

The Crucial M550 is their newer drive, it's slight more expensive, slightly faster, and has slightly more user-accessable capacity. I am unsure if there was any sort of controller change.

The M500 is their now-prior-gen SSD, so it's on firesale prices to clear out old stock. It's a pretty solid drive as I understand it. It has power-backup capacitors (the only other consumer drive that I am aware of that has them is the Seagate 600 Pro). Those help to prevent bricked / corrupted SSDs due to power glitches.

I would have no qualms purchasing either drive. I had contemplated getting a few of the 240GB M500 SATA6G units for $110 on sale recently, but I ended up spending some money on a 19.5" AIO PC that I got for cheap at Staples.

Larry, sometimes I jus LUV U.:biggrin:

Who else would have known diddly re the power-backup caps in that drive????

U got some kinda bargain at STAPLES?

We have one, a big one... right across the street; I only go there for reams of paper. Be it a CMOS batt or an HDMI cable.....I just go and look and then get whatever for 1/3 of the cost on eBay. Ours is three floors; how they stay in business with commercial rents here, I have no clue.
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See below? Just took pic from my window. Not one bargain in that entire building. I mean it. Not even felt tip pens. Nuthin. Truth is, no bargains in my neighborhood on anything.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Other.

SSD for the boot drive and most application data. Large near-line storage on an internal 7200 RPM drive for working with large media files. Network file server for storage of media files and system backups.

 

[Virgorising]

Other.

SSD for the boot drive and most application data. Large near-line storage on an internal 7200 RPM drive for working with large media files. Network file server for storage of media files and system backups.

Thank you. Sounds as if you have all storage issues DOWN for your individual needs.

But I would like to know in yr case too, if, say, 1-2T SSDs were more affordable (not sure if 2Ts even exist), would you do away with yr internal mechanical drive?

 

[Carson Dyle]

Thank you. Sounds as if you have all storage issues DOWN for your individual needs.

But I would like to know in yr case too, if, say, 1-2T SSDs were more affordable (not sure if 2Ts even exist), would you do away with yr internal mechanical drive?

I won't add a large SSD to the current system. It's hard to justify the several hundred dollar expense for just a bit more speed. For the OS and applications, SSD has been an amazing upgrade. The next desktop build will simply employ a larger SSD and do away with the internal HDD.

 

[Virgorising]

I won't add a large SSD to the current system. It's hard to justify the several hundred dollar expense for just a bit more speed. For the OS and applications, SSD has been an amazing upgrade. The next desktop build will simply employ a larger SSD and do away with the internal HDD.

I appreciate the additional data!

 

[Racan]

I am impressed by the "ONLY." Tell me, do you have to do a lot of alignments? Clean installs on yr big Crucial M500? And, why did you choose Crucial as opposed to say Samsung EVO?

I just pasted (above) the results of what Crucial recommends for me after their utility read this system. Not sure wut the differences are among the 250GB ones they recommend for me., cept obviously faster read/write for the more expensive ones. And, most of these are on sale.

Hadda delete the images cause site says too many.

I did a fresh Win 8.1 install. Although the M500 is slightly slower in benchmarks than the equivalent capacity EVOs, when I made my purchase it was cheaper. It also uses 2-bit MLC flash so it should have higher endurance vs Samsung's triple level cell flash, and another plus for the M500 as mentioned by VirtualLarry, capacitors to guard against data corruption from unexpected power loss.

If you're really worried about the finite writes limitation of SSDs you should consider using a larger drive:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/...w-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/3

 

[Virgorising]

I did a fresh Win 8.1 install. Although the M500 is slightly slower in benchmarks than the equivalent capacity EVOs, when I made my purchase it was cheaper. It also uses 2-bit MLC flash so it should have higher endurance vs Samsung's triple level cell flash, and another plus for the M500 as mentioned by VirtualLarry, capacitors to guard against data corruption from unexpected power loss.

Again, many thanks for these data and yr time. I am actually now leaning toward the bargain M500, re what Larry shared and what you reiterate and expand.... given, I was about to give $70 for the Raptor on ebay. I don't wanna pay a lot for my first SSD.

I just adore detailed data as per the chart u put up! And, within it, for me, the "lifespan in years" category is the most significant. A 500GB SSD would cost far more than the bargain priced 250 I am considering, come on.....look at the lifespan of the 250 in years! If that is even ballpark, I am stunned. Fifteen plus?????

And, see below, again, my drives are clones, I do dual boot option.....i always boot into this WD Black 500GBs.....but right now, both drives are more occupied than usual even....and see the 250, now using a Seagate. So, if I got the on sale, older 250, given how much free space I have, I think it would be sufficient and I wouldn't have to worry about finite anything.

Thanks so much again for all this precious, detailed input. Not just you and Larry & Carson, all U guys.

 

[Virgorising]

K......done and done. I went for the fire sale Crucial with the industrial strength caps. They din charge shipping, but did charge tax. They din always , but now, they do, I guess.

I never would have done this had it not been for input on my I found another WD black, no, I like the F3s, no, I like this raptor threads.....and this thread re the poll and the uber input.

I mean it.

I already have good mechanical to SDD migration app I got when I bought that SSD on Black Friday for 20 mins.

I also have a little orange sled I bought on eBay when I bought that Black Friday drive.... you slip into yr existing sled.

Given for me, this is amazing system, and this WD Black for me, is very fast, I kinda feel like a selfish be-atch a little. In fact, pretty sure my mom is texting me that right now!:sneaky: How she knows these things, we can never figure out. :whiste:

O! look! They sending me some migrating thingy I don need! But see, I like it says my system, cause they read it. Infantile, but I like it anyhow.

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[Virgorising]

K, it's not orange. It's red. Much redder than the pic. See, this no money 2.5 sled I got on eBay....like $3 including shipping, I bought in the 20 mins I owned the Black Friday SDD on Newegg before I cancelled that purchase.

So when it arrived, I had no use for it and never opened it, just put it in my HDD drawer. Until now. Very sturdy sled. Never saw it before, but now, I have.

Since Crucial is including, I think something similar.....I guess I will now have two.
Feign interest.:whiste)

 

[gooseman]

I use a 120GB Samsung 840 for my OS and a 480GB Crucial M500 to put everything else on.

 

[Virgorising]

I use a 120GB Samsung 840 for my OS and a 480GB Crucial M500 to put everything else on.

If I might ask you as well: if 1T SSDs cost the same as big mechanical drives, would you go all solid state?

 

[VirtualLarry]

If I might ask you as well: if 1T SSDs cost the same as big mechanical drives, would you go all solid state?

If I could get 1TB SSD for $100 or less, I would go all-SSD. (Not that I'm not all-SSD on my non-main-desktop machines already. Mostly they have smaller SSDs.)

 

[sze5003]

If I might ask you as well: if 1T SSDs cost the same as big mechanical drives, would you go all solid state?

If this was the case I would have one by now. I would definitely go all ssd and use the mechanical drive for Linux installs and data.

 

[Virgorising]

If this was the case I would have one by now. I would definitely go all ssd and use the mechanical drive for Linux installs and data.

Yay! You just made me finally feel Full Blown Fabulous about my first, on the way SSD.:thumbsup:

 

[Virgorising]

If I could get 1TB SSD for $100 or less, I would go all-SSD. (Not that I'm not all-SSD on my non-main-desktop machines already. Mostly they have smaller SSDs.)

This too, right on the heels of the above, finally made me Feel Full Blown Fabulous about my on the way first SSD!:biggrin:

 

[Virgorising]

I want to vote for both 2 and 3. I currently use a smaller boot SSD (240GB), and a 3TB HDD for data. If larger (1TB and larger) SSDs were cheap enough, yes, I would probably switch to pure SSD. Not entirely sure on that. I just don't see SSDs reaching price-parity with HDDs anytime soon, so tiered storage makes the most sense for now.

I also have a NAS that everything also gets copied to, and then the NAS gets backed up to the 3TB HDD.

I never made a poll before; I should have allowed voters to do multiple choices. It said you could do that, I was in a hurry so messed that part up.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If I could get 1TB SSD for $100 or less, I would go all-SSD. (Not that I'm not all-SSD on my non-main-desktop machines already. Mostly they have smaller SSDs.)

I'm not a big fan of the fact that they wear out from usage but I would probably give it a shot and make a small raid array with all SSDs and use it normally (VMs and stuff) to see how it fairs out. If I could get say, 3 years out of it, then it might be worth it for the extra performance boost. Guessing raid 10 is preferred over raid 5 for SSDs. Raid 0 is almost an option even, though that still takes balls of steel.

 

[saratoga172]

I have a 1TB M500 and a 256gb M4 in my system. M4 is for VM's and M500 contains boot, apps and some data. Also have movies and media stored on another 1TB spindle drive. Just don't see the need for that media to be on ssd. Notice no benefit from doing so or deficit not doing so.

 

[gooseman]

If I might ask you as well: if 1T SSDs cost the same as big mechanical drives, would you go all solid state?

Well I am all solid state, its just 2 different drives but yes, if I could get a 1TB SSD for the same price as a 1TB mechanical drive I'd jump on it in a heartbeat.

 

[Sable]

I've got a Samsung 830 as a boot drive and a second one as a steam game drive. Music and video are all kept on mechanical raids.

 

[BrightCandle]

I use an SSD as my main drive and store more or less everything on it. However I do have a 4GB hard drive in the machine as well which is used for uncompressed video capture and when I have to shuffle files around like when doing maintenance on my NAS or one of my other machines. So primarily SSD is used for everything day to day and the HDD is used only when I have a particular problem.

 

[_Rick_]

On my desktop there's only 2 SSDs (384GB combined) and a mostly un-used 1TB spinner a hot-swap bay.
All my data is in the network.