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ssd recommendations?
fohfoh:
I personally would go for the Intel M series. But I haven't looked into them for a while now. I have no idea regarding the newer intel ones though.
kureshii:
--- Quote from: NaRu on July 02, 2011, 06:54:03 AM ---I would stay away from OCZ because my friend had 5 of them and they all failed on him. He got them replaced using the warranty and they also failed. The drive vanish from the system or has forgotten the data on them. I had one of them and it failed on me as well. First it crashed so I reinstalled windows. Things started out fine but after few system updates files and software started to become corrupted. I have installed windows 4 times thinking maybe it was something I was installing. I didn't have anything installed and I have stopped installing updates to see if it will happen again. After 2 days it did.
Stay away from OCZ. I recommend Intel drives.
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Might want to mention which drives those were. OCZ has gone through at least 3 SSD controller chips (and even more firmware versions), and simply lumping them all into one basket without considering if they were from a single batch is pretty careless. Might even explain why they all failed, if they happened to be from a bad batch.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on July 02, 2011, 07:50:34 AM ---I personally would go for the Intel M series. But I haven't looked into them for a while now. I have no idea regarding the newer intel ones though.
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The M-series was pretty great—a year ago or more. But now, their 80MB/s sequential write looks downright shameful even compared to mechanical drives. If you’re going to get an Intel SSD, the newer ones (320, 510 etc) sport more reasonable write speeds for the kind of money you’ll be putting down.
--- Quote from: keviny1 on July 01, 2011, 10:33:39 PM ---Figured i would try and make the jump to ssd, but im still a bit iffy on which to get, where i heard a lot of crashes and other hiccups are happening. I was thing about getting http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148357 and have a dual boot with linux and windows 7. Then use the HDD that i am currently using for different apps and programs. ( i would put the ones i use the most on the ssd though). Does this seem reasonable, or any other recommendations?
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Depending on price, the C300, despite being one generation old now, can be a pretty good deal for the price. The SATAIII interface is put to good use in reads where it would be bottlenecked by a slower SATAII interface. Anand notes some issues with TRIM not recoering sufficient performance under very heavy writes, but it is probably unlikely that you will encounter this often under typical use.
Before you make the leap to an SSD, you should note that they are fundamentally different from HDDs, and come with their own set of advantages, problems and issues. There is a lot of misinformation and FUD out there concerning SSDs. Though the technology is not new (flash storage is already more than a decade old by now), its introduction into consumer desktop space is pretty new, and new strides are still being made. A lot of information that was true of SSDs 2–3 years ago is no longer true, and there is a lot of concern about SSDs that apply only to cheap inferior offerings.
Don’t believe everything you read, and make your own judgements based on objective information. The majority opinion can sometimes be misleading, and I would advise you not to plonk your money down too hastily.
Sosseres:
From Hardware.fr (via a Swedish site, can't find the original, in percentages where lower is better):
RMA rates for SSDs sold April to October 2010 and returned due errors prior to April 2011.
kitamesume:
does that mean Intel makes the most reliable SSDs?
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 02, 2011, 10:32:11 AM ---does that mean Intel makes the most reliable SSDs?
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In that check, yes. Might be different in some other one.
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