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If you primarily want more space for gaming (and have space inside your chassis), why not consider getting 2 higher capacity mechanical disks and putting them in RAID 0? I did this recently for my Steam library and loading times are now barely noticeable.
Most games tend to use a lot of sequential io for loading levels, so the random io speed advantage of an ssd doesn't really come into affect.
Samsung 840 Pro 2.5" 256GB
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009NB8WRU/
Samsung 840 Evo 250G or 500G would do...
If you're into gaming on a SSD, nothing beats PCI-Express-SSDs. Have a look at the RoG Raidr Express. It is ~40% faster on sequential read/write than the Samsung SSD 840 Pro; providing up to 850 MB/s seq. on PCIe 2.0 x2. The Raidr's controller is a RAID-0 2x SandForce SF-2281. The RAID itself is managed by a Marvell 88SE9230. It consumes around 3,8 W on write.
+1. Especially on Windows.
Instead of spending stupid amounts on a SSD get a seagate momentus XT (not sshd because they are only 5400)
840 EVO + Magician Software to boost will work great if you're using Windows.
You just missed out on the blackfriday deals on Amazon, they had some huge price cuts.
Samsung EVO 250GB or +
it's magic (:
Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 480GB
Controller: SandForce (Like Intel 520 Series)
MTBF: 2.000.000 hours / 3yr warranty
Price: 300 USD @ Amazon
An alternative to the ever bigger ssd, is to get steam mover and just shift some of those bloated but otherwise non intensive games to a spinning disk.
SSD do nothing for gaming performance other than speed up some load times. It's a waste to use SSD to store games. But if you're insistent go for the Samsung EVO.
Just change the directory on your steam library to a normal 7200rpm HDD. Save your money and upgrade something that does make a difference with games, like you GPU.
If you want a low cost SSD $110 for 230GB of SSD (using PCI-e also)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820228049
I got one and it works good. Best bang for buck right now. It's < $0.50 / 1GB of space.
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IMO, the best choice would be to use part of that ssd to cache your hd.
I've been using Samsung 840 Pros on my home rig, they've been really reliable and very very fast.