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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1422531" data-attributes="member: 24098">I have a Crucial M4 256GB and am very happy with it.&nbsp; It's not the fastest drive on the market, but it's one of the fastest in its segment.&nbsp; Crucial is well known for the their Mac support and customer service, whereas some vendors (Samsung in particular) are known for exactly the opposite.SSDs are so much faster than traditional hard drives, that just about any model will create a stunning difference in your machine.&nbsp; When you compare one SSD to another of the same generation (keep in mind, there's been several successive generations of SSDs) in terms of performance, the differences are pretty subtle in anything other than abstract benchmarks.&nbsp; Literally, we're talking a few tenths of a second difference in reads and writes.&nbsp; You can find specific benchmark comparisons on sites like Anandtech.com - it's hard to rank them as things change with firmware updates and specific revisions.I can't speak to the others, although I've read a lot of complaints about OCZ firmware updates - but the firmware on my M4 is rock solid, I've never had any crashes or hangs.One of the things that can be difficult is firmware updates - especially if the vendor doesn't specifically support the Mac.&nbsp; Some of the updater programs are Windows only.&nbsp; Crucial supplied their firmware on bootable CD images, which are Mac friendly.I think you hit the nail on the head.&nbsp; I doubt you'd notice any discernible difference between any of the models that support SATA 3.&nbsp; If it were me, I wouldn't think twice about the Samsung.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1422531, member: 24098"] I have a Crucial M4 256GB and am very happy with it. It's not the fastest drive on the market, but it's one of the fastest in its segment. Crucial is well known for the their Mac support and customer service, whereas some vendors (Samsung in particular) are known for exactly the opposite. SSDs are so much faster than traditional hard drives, that just about any model will create a stunning difference in your machine. When you compare one SSD to another of the same generation (keep in mind, there's been several successive generations of SSDs) in terms of performance, the differences are pretty subtle in anything other than abstract benchmarks. Literally, we're talking a few tenths of a second difference in reads and writes. You can find specific benchmark comparisons on sites like Anandtech.com - it's hard to rank them as things change with firmware updates and specific revisions. I can't speak to the others, although I've read a lot of complaints about OCZ firmware updates - but the firmware on my M4 is rock solid, I've never had any crashes or hangs. One of the things that can be difficult is firmware updates - especially if the vendor doesn't specifically support the Mac. Some of the updater programs are Windows only. Crucial supplied their firmware on bootable CD images, which are Mac friendly. I think you hit the nail on the head. I doubt you'd notice any discernible difference between any of the models that support SATA 3. If it were me, I wouldn't think twice about the Samsung. [/QUOTE]

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