Excellent SSD recommendations?

I'd get Intel, Samsung, Crucial, Kingston.. pretty much the top 4 in terms of reliability/performance. Crucial are probably the cheapest out of the 4, however are renowned for their amazing durability. They also therefore are slightly slower but tbh you won't notice much of a difference.. maybe a second or two at most off the boot time
 
Would seer clear of ocz myself, maybe look at a crucial mx100 they're solid drives good cheap too
 
NeverBackDown said:
I'd get Intel, Samsung, Crucial, Kingston.. pretty much the top 4 in terms of reliability/performance. Crucial are probably the cheapest out of the 4, however are renowned for their amazing durability. They also therefore are slightly slower but tbh you won't notice much of a difference.. maybe a second or two at most off the boot time
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Funny that you mentioned Kingston, previously I had my eye on the HyperX Savage (SHSS37A/480G). Between Kingston and Intel, which would you pick? As for the Intel SSDs, would you say the 730 series?

Tripp said:
Would seer clear of ocz myself, maybe look at a crucial mx100 they're solid drives good cheap too
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Any specific reasons to stay away from OCZ? I'll take a look at the Crucial one as well, cheers! The Kingston one is actually cheaper and faster - only by tenner though.
 
The F34R Channel said:
Funny that you mentioned Kingston, previously I had my eye on the HyperX Savage (SHSS37A/480G). Between Kingston and Intel, which would you pick? As for the Intel SSDs, would you say the 730 series?



Any specific reasons to stay away from OCZ? I'll take a look at the Crucial one as well, cheers! The Kingston one is actually cheaper and faster - only by tenner though.
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Well the last ocz ssd i had bursting into flames, and now gets used as a coffee coaster
 
The F34R Channel said:
Any specific reasons to stay away from OCZ? I'll take a look at the Crucial one as well, cheers! The Kingston one is actually cheaper and faster - only by tenner though.
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Before OCZ was bought up, they had a terrible track record with their ssd drives, a lot of failures and returns prettymuch ruined the company to the point of filing for bankruptcy and their reputation forever stained.

Even now as they have a new owner people generally avoid them.
 
I'd get whichever is cheaper. Intel has a longer warranty period and still performs very well. Kingston has a little shorter period but it's amongst the fastest ssds on the market for Sata 3, so really if it was me I'd get the cheapest one. If it's only a few euro's more to get the Savage then I'd get that as it's faster.
 
Tripp said:
Well the last ocz ssd i had bursting into flames, and now gets used as a coffee coaster
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Ouch! Point well taken!

Dark NighT said:
Before OCZ was bought up, they had a terrible track record with their ssd drives, a lot of failures and returns prettymuch ruined the company to the point of filing for bankruptcy and their reputation forever stained.

Even now as they have a new owner people generally avoid them.
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d1974 said:
I have the Sam 850 evo so would obv recommend likewise.
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I must admit not being a Samsung Evo fan, sorry for not mentioning that earlier. Mainly because of the few troubles that were reported a while back, although they might not be completely true or what not, they kind of ruined it for me to be honest.

CreatiXx said:
Always been in love with Kingston, they got beautiful Hyper X series
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They sure do! At this point this is my #1 choice, but I've got time and more suggestions might come in :)

Of course I can check various hardware review sites (and I have done), however I'd rather hear from actual owners (meaning you) that have long time experience wih your drives.

NeverBackDown said:
I'd get whichever is cheaper. Intel has a longer warranty period and still performs very well. Kingston has a little shorter period but it's amongst the fastest ssds on the market for Sata 3, so really if it was me I'd get the cheapest one. If it's only a few euro's more to get the Savage then I'd get that as it's faster.
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Since I'd already had my eye on it before the OCZ breakdown, that might be my best option, as stated above.
 
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i think, among all the good brands, intel, samsung, kingston.. there wont be DAT much difference for speed, price and reliability
 
The F34R Channel said:
Funny that you mentioned Kingston, previously I had my eye on the HyperX Savage (SHSS37A/480G). Between Kingston and Intel, which would you pick? As for the Intel SSDs, would you say the 730 series?



Any specific reasons to stay away from OCZ? I'll take a look at the Crucial one as well, cheers! The Kingston one is actually cheaper and faster - only by tenner though.
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the only SSD i have had catastrophically die on me was an OCZ
 
Hold up.

The new OCZ SSDs are much better than what they used to be. Thanks to Toshiba buying them (who for the record, make really reliable SSDs) they have a much, much lower fail rate than they used to. Mainly because Toshiba got rid of everything that was sub par before.
 
OCZ vertex 4 drives has been serving many of my PCs for years and I have yet to have a single failure. Just my experience though.
 
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