Storage SSD - Force 3 vs Agility 3

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/120g...orce-2281-read-525mb-s-write-500mb-s-85k-iops

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/120g...force-read-550mb-s-write-510mb-s-85000-iops-p

Hey guys, im thinking of buying a 120 gig SSD and after looking on scan and reading reviews these two seem like the best value for money. Are there any noticable differences between them, or should i just flip a coin?

 

Force 3s are going cheap on ebuyer atm, just saying.

 

Thanks . The price difference is still very small, so I'm still wandering about any differences.

 

They're basically the same - both use the inferior async 2Xnm nand...

...rather than (superior) 2Xnm sync nand or (even more superior) 3Xnm toggle nand...

...& so, in particular, have noticeably slower incompressible reads & somewhat slower writes than the better 6Gb/s SFs.

(the V3, GT, 520, HyperX, etc are sync nand, whilst the V3 max iops, Wildfire, etc are toggle nand)


Yeah, i'm not saying not to buy them if that's all you can afford as they'd be much faster than a HDD - simply that they're budget SSDs & so not quite up to the level of the more expensive ones.

 

Thanks very much pocketdemon, interesting stuff.