Advice on solid state drives?
I have been doing some research on the advantages of Solid state drives and am ready to take the plunge and upgrade the Sata II 500Gb HDD in my Acer Iconia 6120 Dual touch screen laptop which is running 8Gb ram and Windows 7 touch (don't like 8 and wont work properly with my dual screens).
I have spent quite a bit of time reading the Newegg feedback comments on the various brands and models of SSD. Based on the feedback around reliability and availability locally I have narrowed the choices down to (in order of preference) Samsung 840 Pro, Intel 520 series, Samsung 840 and Crucial M4.
I know that My sata II set up will not reap the bigger gains of the sata 3 drives but it looks like there aren't many sata 2 drives out there and they aren't much if any cheaper and some appear to have controller issues or limitations which may not be desirable. So I figured to run with the backward compatible sata III models (that don't have stability issues).
480 to 512 Gb are going to cost pretty much double the cost of the 240 - 256 GB drives and (up until recently) I made do with 60Gb of drive ok (in my previous laptop) so I probably can't justify spending more that the cost of the 240 - 256Gb drives.
From what I understand, some of the benefits of the samsung 840 pro over the std 840 are restricted to the 512Gb drive and with the Pro model at 25+% more $ than the standard it may not be the best value for money if I am only going with the 240 - 256Gb drive size. The Intel 520 is about 15+% more $ than the std Samsung 840 and I am not sure if it's worth it. The Crucial M4 is about the same price as the Intel 520 but maybe not quite as good performance and reliability wise.
That is where I am at.
Do any of you guys have any experiences and or knowledge that may be of benefit to me in this decision?
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