Build Advice Best SSD for £200?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by dave99, 31 Mar 2011.

  1. Ph4ZeD

    Ph4ZeD What's a Dremel?

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    Grumpy... but right.
     
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    dave99 What's a Dremel?

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    I am going to post my final build. Would appreciate your advice.
     
  4. Ph4ZeD

    Ph4ZeD What's a Dremel?

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    Please do mate, happy to scrutinise.
     
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    He really is, its fantastic. But to be fair, he is right. The speed of the vertex 3 is outrageous and compared to the fastest SSD's 18 months ago it is priced very reasonably, in my opinion. Prices will come down naturally as time progresses anyway, I am sure the vertex 2 launched at a higher price than it is now, even considering the VAT increase.
     
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    I'm just a tightarse yorkshireman whose wallet rules his brain
     
  7. Matticus

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    Nothing wrong with that, but I get the idea that Dave is a man who could do with a vertex 3 in his life :D
     
  8. Ph4ZeD

    Ph4ZeD What's a Dremel?

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    Everyone could do with a Vertex 3 in their life!
     
  9. dave99

    dave99 What's a Dremel?

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    Am I missing something? Can you aim me at any reviews of this SSD? I don't want to spend money just for the sake of it.
     
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    I know I could!

    Don't think we are likely to see £1/1Gb any time soon though, thats my plan and I'm sticking with it (unless I get some kind of bonus or something anyway).
     
  11. PocketDemon

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    As discussed at the time, the real life issues with the nand shrinkage had more to do with -

    (a) using it on old tech (ie the V2s weren't designed for it but price for 34nm had sky rocketed)

    [Edit] - which also caused a speed reduction on the smaller models.

    (b) & the chip capacity was larger which created a formatted capacity shrinkage.

    (plus, of course, it cheesed loads of people off as OCZ didn't alter the model no's or anything so there was no knowing what you were buying).

    Now, the latter problem has been resolved in later 2Xnm nand v2s by using smaller capacity chips... (though there is still no way to tell which is which afaik before purchasing)

    ...& the former obviously has no bearing on the V3s since they were designed to use it.


    As to life span -

    (a) you can't discount that the new SSDs are designed for 2Xnm nand - much as the V2s & C300s &... ...were designed for 3Xnm nand, whereas the previous consumer ones had (at least originally) used 50nm nand which nominally has a much better spec.

    So on that rationale (following your argument) the C300 (& the V2, etc) is a pos because it used lower spec'd nand than all of the older SSDs...

    (b) nand only has a min spec based on a tiny fraction of a percentage of cells failing within a set number of writes - the actual spec is higher & is *a* reason for OP.

    (c) unless someone's extremely heavily writing, you'll basically never see any failures d.t. nand lifespan within the 3 year warranty period - almost every one reported have either been (i) controller failures or (ii) f/w issues (that then get corrected)... & in years of looking at the tech, i've never seen one d.t. nand issues.

    (d) 'if' you're *that* concerned about nand lifespan (or have a very high write profile), you don't buy a consumer SSD - instead you look at the eMLC or SLC enterprise ones.


    So, your assumptions that (to paraphrase) 'becasue there were issues sticking different nand into a V2 means that there has to be issues with the V3' & 'a nand shrinkage is dreadful' aren't really that valid imho since they don't appear to stand up to very basic scrutiny.
     
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