X300 and Crucial C300 SSD

In case anyone is considering doing the same, I thought I would post my experience with this.
The original Samsung 64GB SSD in my X300 was full, I needed something much bigger. The Crucial C300 devices have had good reviews, and are now available in 1.8 inch format.
I bought the 256GB C300, took an image of the old drive, swapped to the new drive and did an image restore which worked perfectly, so that was all I had to do.
I haven't done any detailed tests, but Windows 7 Experience gave 6.1 for the old drive and 7.1 for the new one.
The new drive wasn't cheap but I'm very pleased with it.
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I avoided the 128GB version because, quite apart from the fact that I would nearly fill it right away, it has a much slower write speed than the 256GB.
You are right that prices will come down, it's a fast-developing market, but like all such things if you keep waiting for the better deal round the corner you will never move on.

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No idea about hot swapping.
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I decided against the Evo as there are too many Mac users that have had issues with slow speed on them. Even without these, the main speed that Samsung states for the Evo comes form turbo Write which is a PC only feature as is software dependent.
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