Will I notice improvement from WD 256GB to Crucial M4 256GB?

[HTWingNut]

save for the tires, you dont need a new tv, send me the 830 256gb as gift for my good advices, as always

seriously one day I will try to understand the fascination around tvs

Well my TV is an old tube TV that has discoloration and fade... just trying to put off tires until end of summer. Has enough tread for summer, and figured I'd rather get new before winter.

[davidricardo86]

Now I'm considering the Samsung 830 256GB... $269 with coupon at Newegg. Do I really need it? Why you tempt me Samsung? What I do to you?

That is well over 2x the performance.

One question, why are 4k writes so much faster than 4k reads? That doesn't make much sense.

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I couldn't resist the price so I went ahead and got me the 256GB 830. Thanks for pointing out the current offer!

For fun I also ran CDM on my old 128GB 470...

Samsung 470 128GB SSD Lenovo E425_Internal_02 by davidc646, on Flickr


Samsung 470 128GB SSD Lenovo E425_Internal_01 by davidc646, on Flickr


What would be a fair price to sell my old Samsung 470 128GB SSD (MZ-5PA128B/AM)?

-9 months old (purchased new from Newegg on 8/14/2011)
-2 yr Service Net Replacement Plan (which is still valid)
-I paid $214.98 then

Thanks,
David

[HTWingNut]

You can find new ones for about $125 now, and eBay shows them selling for ~ $90-$100 used. The warranty might add a bit of value, but probably not much.

I'm so VERY tempted to buy this 830 SSD.

[Tsunade_Hime]

The Samsung PM830 SSD is probably the best SSD out for the price and performance. You can also get last gen PM810 (aka Samsung 470 series) for under 250 for 256 GB, OEM SSDs.

[HTWingNut]

Yeah, but the question is, do I really need to spend $270 for it...

[Tsunade_Hime]

Well not being afraid of filling up your SSD I think is good enough reason (coming from someone who started with small SSDs). Maybe for your intents and purposes you don't get that much value jumping to another 256 GB, but we can't spend your money for you now can we? I say for the foreseeable future, I refuse to buy under 160 GB SSD for my personal use, even I think that is too small.

[Karamazovmm]

Well my TV is an old tube TV that has discoloration and fade... just trying to put off tires until end of summer. Has enough tread for summer, and figured I'd rather get new before winter.

I only have a lcd tv because of my sister (we live together, its quite expensive here in sao paolo) but there is no reason for you to buy another ssd

[HTWingNut]

There's no reason to, but there's no reason to have a laptop or internet either. But we upgrade for newer, better, faster.

[contradude]

I was also looking at the Samsung 830 256gb SSD. I have a ton of computer experience (it professional) but have zero experience with solid state drives. Do I still need to be concerned about filling up the 830? I saw with some drives that there was a huge performance penalty with filling the drives and that in some situations you don't get the speed back even after freeing some space

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[HTWingNut]

Well newer drives, Samsung 830 included, do much better near full capacity now. I'd say keep it less than 80% full and you'll be fine. Apparently 60% is ideal, but I find that unrealistic. I don't use more than 200GB on mine, it's usually below 180GB and no noticeable performance degradation.