Hi. Im thinking of buying a new SSD and have no clue on what to buy Been looking at eBay, and found this SSD It had a good mb/s rate, but is it any good and worth the money ?
No No No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grab yourself a Samsung 830 and avoid disappointment (size) is dependant on budget).
what motherboard do you have? lite on drives use the marvell 88SS9174 controller ( as does the new ocz vertex 4 and the crucial M4) - its a solid reliable controller ; although the seller has 0 feedback.....
Im going to use it in a laptop ( HP 4330s) and i just need 120-150 gb SSD i think, Harlequin, i know.. but it was in norway and was cheep i think ?
Three SSD's I would buy. OCZ Vertex 4, Crucial M4 or the Samsung 830. I went for the Vertex 4. Most people here would recommend the Samsung 830. I would go with the general concencus.
If you're on a budget I would go for crucial m4, Corsair force 3 or something like that. I've worked with those two on my recent builds and they are very good Good luck mate...
Here are the popular SSD's -> OCZ Vertex 4 (and no other OCZ models) -> Samsung 830 -> Corsair Force GT (not to be confused with the Force3, or Force Professional. The GT is color red. You can't miss it) -> Crucial M4 -> Intel 530 All of the above, with their latest firmware, has similar performance, reliability and excellent hardware compatibility, and all around well reviewed. Pick the brand name you trust more, and lowest price. Personally, I have the Corsair Force GT 128GB on my laptop (Dell Latitude E6400), and the OCZ Vertex 4 256GB on my desktop. Both provides me with an above and beyond experience in my hardware so far. I had 0 problem installing them. All I did, is plug both of them on my desktop, as secondary drives to update them to the latest firmware BEFORE doing anything. Many don't and have bad surprises when they have problem due to early firmware on a model where the manufacture just implemented a new (for them) controller. It's bound to have bugs and issues. Newer firmware is important. Once I have done that, I prepared my SATA Controller latest drivers and put them on a USB key. Then, verified my BIOS to make sure that my SATA controller is set to AHCI mode, then I install Windows, and loaded my SATA controller drivers in the setup. Many people don't check for this, and have their SATA Controller as IDE, so TRIM is disabled, and performance is reduced. This can also reduce reliability of the SSD, due that the SSD might not like being treated as if it was an age old IDE storage device. Then you are done. The SATA Controller driver at Windows setup, is just to be extra safe, to ensure maximum compatibility. I always do that, no mater the drive.
The 120GB intel 330 is going for $99 on Newegg. It's a middle of the road SSD performance wise (which is still miles ahead of a mechanical drive). Great price for that kind of performance though.
My Corsair GT 128GB was 80$ Canadian on special, is much faster. I don't see this as a good deal. Unless you really want an Intel SSD.
Intels have excellent reliability...but this usually comes at the cost of a slower drive and high premium. My HTPC server runs an x25-m, few years old and still perfect. Would i buy another intel ? No, not now samsung and crucial have drives out.
Here's my list: Intel 330 - Check the latest Anandtech article Crucial M4 - cheap, widely regarded as good quality drives. Plextor M3P - Toggle NAND; more expensive but it's awesome. Love mine to bits. Liteon is owned by the same company but I don't know the diff sorry. Probably the same stuff inside to get economies of scale. The Samsung's are good drives but often more expensive by today's standards. As for ebay. I would avoid - it says 'new' but how do you know the driver hasn't been used then wiped? The NAND could be worn but you'll never see it.
Sorry didn't read some replies above mine: If you can get instant rebates all the more for it. There's plenty of competition and almost weekly sales of one drive or another.
Crucial M4 has a 3 year warranty, OCZ Vertex 4 has a 5 year warranty BTW, for those who don't know when I said "compressible data and non-compressible data"... compressible data is essentially text file, source code, documents, etc. uncompressible data is essentially, dll's exe's, movie files, pictures, etc.
You don't need a 5 year warranty. After 3 years SSD technology will have come so far you'll want to dump the drive. I've just cloned a 3 year old Agility 1 which was used everyday, to a 2010 Crucial M3, and even that's night and day difference.
It has nothing to do with the warranty. If it comes with 5 year warranty.. you know that you can do wtv you want with your SSD, and no worry about a thing., as you know that the max write numbers are so high, that you are just not concern about anything.
