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SSD Poll - Which One

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Raptor1966

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hi all

I have been reading with interest on all the different recommendations for which SSD . I am in the market for getting one, but like everything else there is such a large amount of brands to choose from

I am leaning towards an OCZ and I see that OCZ is getting a fair bashing here, is this because of previous models, anyone using the new vertex 4. Can't see how they can be any more unreliable than another brand, as most brands use the same controllers and NAND

I am setting up a poll to see what manufacturer is the most popular here.

after voting, i would like to hear the reasons why, you have chosen a particular brand over another
 
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The Vertex 4 is a hugely fast SSD, problem is version 1.4 firmware caused BSOD issues, but the 1.5 update is supposed to fix it, but that would still put me off buying one, plus it's OCZ and they have a terrible reputation. Samsung & Sandisk SSD's are amazing value for money atm on Scan.co.uk and other sites, plus they both seem reliable. Kingston are great too, but can be expensive, BUT their HyperX 3K 120GB is £70 on Scan right now, that's a steal!

Crucial seem to be the most reliable out there, Intel are super reliable as well but expensive. Corsair SSD's are great all-rounders, priced well and perform very well. Patriot drives seem to get overshadowed by the 'bigger boys', but their Pyro SE and Wildfire SE drives are extremely fast and i haven't heard any horror stories about them either. Mushkin drives seem good but there's the odd few people who have had issues with the regular Chronos, but the deluxe models seem fine. Haven't heard much about Plextor or other manufacturers

Atm i'd say get a Kingston HyperX 3K while you can from Scan for a bargain, if you can't get one in time then Samsung and Sandisk drives are great value. Crucial drives are on sale for great prices too and they're super reliable, but Corsair, Intel, Patriot and Mushkin are all good too

EDIT: Forgot to mention, also take into consideration warranty length and quality of customer service
 
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Intel is miles ahead of the competition when it comes to reliability. They also make arguably the fastest SSDs on the market. However the performance and reliability comes at price, no pun intended.
 
I bought a brand new OCZ Agility 3 just 32 days ago and its health is already down to 89%. I'm not even joking:

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In the image near the bottom you can see where it says Power On Time: 32 Days, this is in a server so it has been online 24.7 since the day I bought it 32 days ago.

This is the 3rd OCZ SSD I've had since 2011. One is completely dead now, and the other two have lowering health like in the above image. So for me that is 3 out of 3 all duds. I'm no longer going to buy a single OCZ product ever again, really.

So if you wanted to know why we bash OCZ, this is why. In my opinion get any other drive. Intel, Samsung, Crucial. All great brands.
 
I have an intel 330 series running for the last 2 months and it's brilliant. it's almost as fast as it was empty . I highly recommend it
 
Vicey said:
I bought a brand new OCZ Agility 3 just 32 days ago and its health is already down to 89%. I'm not even joking:

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In the image near the bottom you can see where it says Power On Time: 32 Days, this is in a server so it has been online 24.7 since the day I bought it 32 days ago.

This is the 3rd OCZ SSD I've had since 2011. One is completely dead now, and the other two have lowering health like in the above image. So for me that is 3 out of 3 all duds. I'm no longer going to buy a single OCZ product ever again, really.

So if you wanted to know why we bash OCZ, this is why. In my opinion get any other drive. Intel, Samsung, Crucial. All great brands.
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This is off topic, but what program is that?
 
yassarikhan786 said:
This is off topic, but what program is that?
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It is Hard Disk Sentinel The reason I like this software so much is because it is the only Hard Disk Health Monitor I've used which is able to read health data for my disks even when they are on my HighPoint or LSI RAID cards. That is an invaluable feature to me. And of course it supports SSD's and every motherboard chipset I can think of.

Also supports altering the acoustic characteristics of disks and their performance profiles if they support those features (mine do).
 
Seems to be a good piece of software.
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Two Mushkin Chronos 120GBs in RAID0. Rig is on 24/7, health at 100% - yay4Mushkin.
The only thing I will say, is that the software is saying that TRIM is enabled - it's RAID0, so oh no it's not!
 
Vicey said:
It is Hard Disk Sentinel The reason I like this software so much is because it is the only Hard Disk Health Monitor I've used which is able to read health data for my disks even when they are on my HighPoint or LSI RAID cards. That is an invaluable feature to me. And of course it supports SSD's and every motherboard chipset I can think of.

Also supports altering the acoustic characteristics of disks and their performance profiles if they support those features (mine do).
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Thanks, will definitely be downloading that when I get home tonight.
 
Vicey said:
It is Hard Disk Sentinel The reason I like this software so much is because it is the only Hard Disk Health Monitor I've used which is able to read health data for my disks even when they are on my HighPoint or LSI RAID cards. That is an invaluable feature to me. And of course it supports SSD's and every motherboard chipset I can think of.

Also supports altering the acoustic characteristics of disks and their performance profiles if they support those features (mine do).
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very good software, i have been using for a while now as well
 
Funny enough I've had all my seagates die too.

I've purchased 8 Seagates over the years and all of them are now dead. A few years back I bought 3x320GB Seagates. They were single platter designs and blew a lot of disks out of the water in performance at the time. So I got three put them in a RAID0 array and got some really impressive throughput.

Exactly 8 months later all 3 died within 2-3 days of each other. I thought jesus what's going on here? I thought there was no way that all three disks could die at the same time, and these weren't even in a server just my desktop rig. My 2TB Samsung, was fine in the same rig connected to the same rail from the same PSU. Smart status was insane on all of them, over 7000 sector re-allocations on all three disks.

Now contrast that with my experience with Samsung. I've got 4x1TB F1's that are 4 years old and they have been running 24.7 since the day I got them. I also have a further 3x1TB F1's that are about 3 years old then I have 8x2TB F3's and F4's which are coming up on 1 or 2 years also 24.7 usage. All fine, perfect health.

I really do question what Seagate is up to. A friend of mine had three Seagates die on him too and they were fussy with the RMA. I treat my computer hardware like diamonds I'm so careful with them, no knocks no scratches I even wear special gloves when I touch my cases (they are all black brushed aluminum so fingerprints are a bitch to get off) so it really irks me that these companies like OCZ and Seagate don't take their own products as seriously as I do, not enough care on their part.
 
I thought the Samsung drives were Seagate OEM?

When my Samsung F3 died, and I put the model number into their RMA system - I was redirected to Seagate.
 
No samsung makes them, the reason you were redirected is because Seagate recently purchased Samsungs Hard Drive business.
 
Josh Weston said:
Seagate buying OCZ?
Ahaha - that's just hilarious!
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Maybe they want to combine fail rates to make FAILGate a bit more popular... not lol.
Also Josh whats performance like with the Mushkins in RAID, I'm considering getting another but I understand that RAID 0 disables "TRIM".
Is the speed gain more than the loss of TRIM?
 
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