the guide is a generic one. you can use it for all ssd's.

anyone can recommend me a good performance ssd?
I just need to use it for OS only.

Good performance can be reach & write an over 600mb/s so far on Mac system PCIe SSD only.

I would recommend you get intel 530 SSD for write a bit slower than samsung 840 Evo or Pro, Corsair.

But this both brand are quite realiable for usage everyday read/write or play some games.

If only boots for windows or mac then the budget one can get seagate, Kingston, adata or crucial, sandisk & plextor.

Actually if your SSD able to write and read an over 200-300mb/s on your life of hdd would be changed as 100%.

This post has been edited by kimsim: Jan 2 2014, 07:51 AM

How about Sandisk Extreme II and Samsung 840 Pro?
I heard these two performance are double of Intel 530 ssd.

i'm using plextor m5s 128gb, sufficiently pleasing

Not really double lah...

Sandisk Extreme II and Samsung 840 pro is almost plus & minor, once your write or read can be read up 300mb/s you would feel that really has a bigger gap or slower performance.

same here.
most recommended budget ssd

Yes it's almost double, but for only one thing on benchmark, that's Incompressible/random write performance; it's SandForce 2281 controller weakness.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/d...sd_7.html#sect1

Can't decide between Samsung 840 EVO 120GB or Intel 530 series 120GB

Samsung has rapid mode and can sustain max performance even when fully filled up whereas Intel has 5 years warranty

i'm doing photoshop work and some video editing ....which SSD is the best for it??
help please

120gb for both also not high performance SSD, unless choose from 250gb and above.

I would say just get any SSD based on your budget. If you have enough budget then get those super high performance SSD. Else just get a basic SSD will also be good enough. A basic SSD is already very much faster than old fashion HDD. FYI, those super fast SSD is not really the much faster. Only in benchmark you can see them really fast but in real life, it is not really noticeable. Just like GPU benchmarks.

I have an Intel 330 40gb SSD (running sataII only). The boot up into windows 7 take only around 15 secs. With super fast SSD, this might become 12 secs. But with old HDD, that's around 3 minutes (180 secs).

SSD works for life's.

1st not need wait too long for booting up and install software, these is no warm like traditional motor runing with slightly vibrating, speed can be double up or more.

So far like a SD card, CF card or others flash drive these is last longer life, just the connected port to be outdated for can't meet on recent speed.

+1. I'm using sata 2 ssd and the tremendous improvement over HDD is there.
you cant go any wrong if you get any ssd that suite your budget unless you aim for the top.
now only if 240gb went cheaper and more cheaper

tqtq...i decide to get samsung 840 pro 256gb....is this the best?

It's the best consumer SATA 6GB/s SSD, if you need better you have look for PCIe SSD, or SAS 12GB/s SSD, but i doubt you can fully utilize the performance of those high performance server SSD if you are just only using it for OS boot drive and put loads of games on it

which pcie and sas is the best in the market now?? i'm not doing server...i do my job using photoshop and video editing...model name??i want fasttt~

I wanted to buy Samsung evo 120gb, then when you guys said it won't affect much, now in dilemma.

Should take now or later? :hrm:

if you are not doing anything intensive on the drive, and just use as boot drive, any SSD will do regardless of what line what tech etc etc, (well maybe the controller used need to be aware of)

seriously? it's expensive you know. a cheaper way might be doing raid0 in this case.