At that capacity the Plextor M5P is very good. The Samsung 840 Pro is good at larger capacities but at that size the garbage collection is over aggressive at a cost to performance. Was just researching this earlier lol.

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The Neutron GTX is the best you can get for around $120 on Newegg right now. 5-year warranty, top-of-the-heap performance.

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The Neutron GTX is the best you can get for around $120 on Newegg right now. 5-year warranty, top-of-the-heap performance.

Have you got any benchmarks? Looking at Anandtech atm and while its good, the Vertex 4 and M5 Pro tend to be beating it. The different NAND is interesting though.

The real-world performance differences are negligible and if you want to compare the numbers, they trade blows in different ways just because of different flash, controllers, and firmware. You can't really compare the M5P to a 120/128GB drive because Anandtech only has numbers for the 256GB variant.

Premium (5-year warranty) drives:

Corsair Neutron GTX
Corsair Neutron
OCZ Vertex 4
OCZ Vector
Samsung 840 Pro
Plextor M5P
Intel 520

The warranty makes the deal and you're not going to go wrong with performance.

Wow. I remember now, I looked down the list, said "no M5P 120/128, that rules it out", and then instantly forgot :/

In which case the Vertex 4 and Neutron GTX trade blows. Out of the two, I would get the Neutron GTX. Fractions of percentages worse performance than the Vertex 4 but I have heard bad things about it.

However, I would still get the M5P. Plextor are up there with Samsung and Crucial for SSDs and the M5P is still very very fast.

Off topic: You wouldn't have seen about the GeForce4? That topic? You might well be the only one to know, fairly obscure.

Thanks for getting back to me, how reliable is the GTX?

Would I be better off with a 840 Pro or Vector? I would like to buy by tomorrow and I'm always hearing how these two are top of the heap. I dont want to cheap out 10 bucks and get the GTx when I could get the 840 Pro or Vector.

Just as reliable as any current high-end SSD and enough for Corsair to give it a 5-year warranty.

EDIT: You will never notice the difference between any of those. I'd save the money.

r00t wrote Just as reliable as any current high-end SSD and enough for Corsair to give it a 5-year warranty.

EDIT: You will never notice the difference between any of those. I'd save the money.

Sorry, I meant about the Vertex 4. I know it has the same warranty but it seems to have a bad rep.

And for saving the money, isn't the Vertex 4 the cheapest.