The 850 PRO is the top dog, intel is coming out with a 750 chip set for PCIx slot based SSDs this month. You have to have a PC with a motherboard and support for that technology. This will out run even the latest 850 PROs. big $$$$!
Note Crucial as well has a new drive that is dam fast. The diff on the new Samsung's is the controller in the pro Samsung. The Samsung MGX Controller is in the EVO and a Samsung MEX Controller in the PRO series. Not to mention vertical stacked data.
I have over 25 SSD drives sitting in stock at all price points, and have done major testing on them in stand alone, raid all modes, SSHD Hybrids, Server drives, SAS drives etc.
Unless you are going to spring for a $1500+ Raid controller like an Acrea and go with Constellation series Sata / SAS drives with 128 meg cache, forget it. Bang for the $$$ is in the SSDs.
Or a raid SCSI controller and 15000 RPM drives etc duh, that is the fastest, but for that price you can buy a lot of stuff. Meant for servers in machine data centers etc...
They are cool, run a long long time, no moving parts etc. Dang fast too!
David did a great job on this thread and this is a perfect upgrade that will give better sound.
See all hard drives that spin, and even lesser performance SSDs have to cache data, when they pause you can get sound drop outs.
In almost every Blu-Ray movie you own you will see 1 o2 or more drop outs. it is data loss packets etc that do that during the authoring process
Long Live laser Disc.. .no MPEG compression like a dvd etc. Nice big 12" disc and CAV yes that should be the standard and it could be made better.
We use to backup terabytes of data even 20+ years ago at SoCal Edision to these 12" disc in the 90s very very fast!
