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indiana bones
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-02-13 23:29:49 UTC
I really need to do a reinstall on my PC and am going to add an SSD to do it on at the same time.

Before I go delving into many hours of reading tech specs and reviews, thought I'd make this post to ask like minded people which are 'good' SSD's atm to get a feel for them.

I looked at them about a year ago and OCZ vertex 3's were pretty much the benchmark comparison at the time. Thye've now been replaced by Vertex 4's but am wondering how they stack up to others now. I've heard Intel have made progress, but not done much searching yet.

I don't mind splahing out a little on it as it's going to be a good investment over a normal HDD (have striped Velociraptors atm), but would prefer to keeps costs down without sacraficing too much performance. Currently looking at 128GB size drives.

Any help would be much appreciated Smile

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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#2 - 2013-02-13 23:42:11 UTC
I'm in the same boat. I WAS going to get this one but as you can see its out of stock now that I finally got the money to order it. Got a Corsair Force Series GT at about the same price that I might consider now.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-02-14 00:30:45 UTC
I totally misread SSD and now my whole day is ruined Evil

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Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2013-02-14 09:43:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6639
MDX controller

three of my five storage drives are SSD. They all use the SandForce controller technology, but my next batch of SSD's will use Samsung's MDX controller, if they aren't Samsung brand.

dual intel 330 series in RAID 0 for OS and a third for music to eliminate seek lag

Windows uses TRIM and some heuristic behavior when it recognizes a drive as an SSD, but between SSDs it's about the controller they have on board.
Palovana
Inner Fire Inc.
#5 - 2013-02-14 17:03:05 UTC
I've had good luck with a Crucial M4 128GB SSD.

I've only installed the system files and the wine-EVE install (but not the cache) to it.

My computer only supports SATA 2 speeds so I can't take full advantage of its speed yet.

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Muad 'dib
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-02-15 04:21:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Muad 'dib
SSDs rock, after my first 32G intel extreme running XP went like a bat out of hell years ago, i was hooked.

Currently have 3, one system drive, two game/app/pagefile drives - and a 1Tb conventional for fraps, pron and movies that i dont have

All the new generation SSD drives are reliable that ive heard, not that ive had any issues with any Gen 1s yet :P

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Charles Javeroux
INTERSTELLAR CREDIT
#7 - 2013-02-15 10:02:37 UTC
Currently the best SSDs money can buy are from Samsung.

Samsung 840 Pro SSD is the model I would spend my money on.
Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#8 - 2013-02-15 10:29:09 UTC
Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#9 - 2013-02-15 10:30:30 UTC
Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#10 - 2013-02-15 10:30:38 UTC
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#11 - 2013-02-15 14:53:48 UTC
^^^^^^ Whoa triple post ^^^^^^



Yeah Samsung does make a nice SSD, I'll agree with that.

I have also used Crucial, Intel and Plextor SSDs in the past and they all worked great.

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Claire Coffee
Coffee Inc
#12 - 2013-02-15 18:09:09 UTC
OCZ Vertex 4 with latest firmware. Pretty nice thingie.

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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#13 - 2013-02-15 22:11:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
Intel 330 series 240 GB SSD goes for about 200$.
The cheapest other SSD of that size you can find is around 180$, so the price difference is quite minimal.

The 330 series is the "meh-ok" performance version at a VERY AFFORDABLE price, and the 240GB one has currently the best price/size ratio.
HOWEVER, that "meh-ok" in terms of SSD performance is still "whoa-dang" compared to any spinning platter drive though, so have at it.
Feel free to get the 120GB version though.

OCZ SSDs have among the highest failure rates of SSDs (well above 5% per year), Intel ones by far the lowest (much under 1% per year) according to the internets.
Owner usage habits might have something to do with it, so the reliability might be closer than the raw numbers seem to indicate... but still.

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Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#14 - 2013-03-04 03:38:21 UTC
don't... fracking... buy Samsung 840. it's not good. also, it comes bundled with Assassin's Creed III for the Pro, and FarCry 3 for the regular 840

$169 for a 256 GB Samsung 840, with FarCry 3? not bad, right? wrong.

receipt shows the SSD is $130, and FarCry 3 is $38, do you see the problem with that?

people will smell something is wrong when 256 GB sell for $130, so what do they do? bundle it with a download, and itemize them separately on a receipt in the hopes the customer installs the game, and then a return on the "bundle" is impossible. Then the bad hardware is an RMA and no longer the store's problem.

what does my pair of brand new Samsung 840s do? crashes my computer when I try to access them. awesome.

I tried to return them this evening, but couldn't because I didn't bring the FarCry 3 game codes with me (tried to pull a fast one, but so did they.) I'll have to do it tomorrow.

THIS IS THE BEST PART: the salesperson claimed, "Samsung 840's are sought out in the industry." and I was like, "then why are you bundling it with a game?"

lies are cheap, talk is cheap. don't believe anything you hear or see from a retailer, ESPECIALLY if they've bundled a product with a game DLC.

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Aineko Macx
#15 - 2013-03-07 07:10:33 UTC
Akita T wrote:
OCZ SSDs have among the highest failure rates of SSDs (well above 5% per year), Intel ones by far the lowest (much under 1% per year) according to the internets.

This. I'd pretty much stay away from OCZ and current generation SandForce based SSDs.

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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#16 - 2013-03-07 16:48:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
Aineko Macx wrote:
Akita T wrote:
OCZ SSDs have among the highest failure rates of SSDs (well above 5% per year), Intel ones by far the lowest (much under 1% per year) according to the internets.

This. I'd pretty much stay away from OCZ and current generation SandForce based SSDs.

To be fair, the 330 series and the 520 series both use a SandForce SF-2281 controller.
However, Intel uses a custom firmware version which they claim was designed to be tweaked in favour of stability and longevity, and they offer some free "optimization" (or whatever it actually is) software that they recommend you run every now and then to further improve both those aspects they focus on.
Also, they (in cooperation with Micron) have their own NAND forge, and allegedly keep the "better testing batches" for their own products, selling off the excess to other takers.

P.S. If raw performance is also a factor, the price hike to a 520 version is not that drastic, especially for smaller sizes.

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Blue Binary
Polychoron
#17 - 2013-03-07 19:29:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Blue Binary
Just to add some balance to this thread. The Vertex 4 models are backed up by a 5 year warranty and use an Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller (OCZ bought the company in 2011 and released the controller in November 2012) as opposed to a Sandforce controller.

The Vertex 4's in some cases outperform an Intel 520 SSD... Blink
Mark Munoz
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2013-03-07 23:26:10 UTC
As most have said the Samsung is by far the leader in every way in this arena. That said I personally use Mushkin Chronos Deluxe drives. They strike the perfect balance of price and performance. I have about 80 deployed for almost a year now and no issues thus far.