M4 / Vertex3 / ForceGT 60GB

DennisMenace · 6 Jan 2012 at 06:10

Assuming that the above SSDs were the same price (~£85), which would you recommend for a boot drive with a Z68/i5-2500K system (ie NOT used for HDD-cacheing, just for OS + a few progs/games)?

The Crucial M4 write speed is only 20% of the other drives - yet it does well in real-world benchmarks :confused:

I'm a bit of a Corsair fan, but the M4 seems the most stable/reliable (ie NOT Sandforce :rolleyes:

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Each drive is "best" depending on different benchmarks, but 110 vs 495 is a major slowdown even if there are far more reads than writes.

Any advice?

spenncerr · 6 Jan 2012 at 09:15

Everyone seems to recommend the M4 but after the whole "M4 Timebomb" discovery, it's not looking good at the moment.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18359541

I just got the Force 3 120GB and it's running like a dream. From what I've seen the only downside to some of the other SSD's right now is down to drivers and such.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 6 Jan 2012 at 13:11

The Force3 was recalled at launch and had its fair share of BSOD issues.

Generally speaking,the Samsung SSDs tend to be the most trouble free it seems.

spenncerr · 6 Jan 2012 at 15:41

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The Force3 was recalled at launch and had its fair share of BSOD issues.

Generally speaking,the Samsung SSDs tend to be the most trouble free it seems.

You don't have to defend it

I was just informing him!

lee1101 · 6 Jan 2012 at 15:44

I have the 120GB force 3 and its cracking! The new ones come with the updated firmware which has apparently sorted any bugs that there were on the original ones

hawker1986 · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:29

Ive just gone for the 120GB Force3 on the basis that its £30 less than the M4 and isnt timebombing, ill update when it arrives

Hawker

lee1101 · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:37

You'll be happy no doubt, I definitely am!

Tombo · 6 Jan 2012 at 16:45

spenncerr said:
Everyone seems to recommend the M4 but after the whole "M4 Timebomb" discovery, it's not looking good at the moment.

It's not looking good even though a fix is coming within a couple of weeks.

ok

Luke · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:17

spenncerr said:
Everyone seems to recommend the M4 but after the whole "M4 Timebomb" discovery, it's not looking good at the moment.

How much better would you like it to look?

I don't understand your comment. A problem has been found and a fix has been identified and is being tested before release. Seems pretty spot on to me.

Broken Hope · 6 Jan 2012 at 17:34

hawker1986 said:
Ive just gone for the 120GB Force3 on the basis that its £30 less than the M4 and isnt timebombing, ill update when it arrives

Hawker

I'd take a random BSOD that doesn't affect users data and doesn't happen until after 5200 hours over having the drives controller fail and take the entire drive down which tends to happen with Sandforce drives.

lee1101 · 6 Jan 2012 at 19:08

True, I'm guessing it will be a little while yet before all SSD s are rock solid

just keep mine as a boot drive for now just in case!