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Massive SSD indecision... HELP
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Are you looking for reliability or raw speed? If you are working with massive amounts of data daily, don't care about battery life, and are seeking pure speed go with the Vertex 3.
For everything else, the Crucial m4, the Samsung 470, and the Kingston V+100 will be just fine.
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In real world use, you're not going to see the benchmark numbers, while nearly any of the better SSDs will give a noticeable speed improvement over a HD..either just in app launch and boot speeds (nice, but really - who cares?), or in data manipulation speeds for some applications, assuming your data is on the SSD.
I haven't gone into OCD mode researching all of the current OCDs, but I can tell you a 5-10% sometimes performance gain vs a different brand/model just isn't worth it if it means lower reliability. Do your homework and check for '< ssd brand/model > problems' in searches, on reliability, etc, then as long as benchmark performance is within 20% or so, go with reliability. Right now, I'd probably be looking at the Samsung 470 as my own personal potential pick, but I haven't compared it to every other drive as I stated.