250GB (ish) SSD, 5 year G'tee which one?

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So in the next couple of weeks I will be upgrading my dated 3.5 mechanical drives to 240/250GB SSD's my main concern is reliability that is why i'm looking at drives with 5 years warranty.

For now it's going in an older Asus P5E3 Premium motherboard and a dual boot win 7 U x64 machine, my question tot he board is what is the best to go for right now? By best i mean in terms of reliability and speed.

Also is there anything I need to know about these SSD's I have read about "trimming" etc but to be honest i have done no reading on that as of yet so any other info, help or tips will be more then welcome.

All1 :D
 
One thing to be aware of is mounting them if you don't have specific 2.5" SSD mounts in your case requiring a caddy/kit of some sort.

I'm using a 250GB Samsung 840 EVO and so far everything has been pretty smooth and trouble free.
 
Rroff said:
One thing to be aware of is mounting them if you don't have specific 2.5" SSD mounts in your case requiring a caddy/kit of some sort.
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I'm having a new case sent to me under warranty from Fractal Design it's the Define XL but i'm unsure if it's the rev 1 which i prefer or the the rev 2 but i think both allow for the SSD's to go on the back of the motherboard tray, come to think of it i think i can mount them in normal drive bays as they have spacing for 2.5 drives but thanks for the warning.


kefan77 said:
840 Pro has 5 year warranty, also Corsair Neutron GTX for example, but tbh, I wouldn't bother and just get the Evo.
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My data is vital to what i do so although i know no drive is bullet proof i'd rather spend more for a bit of piece of mind.


All1
 
Rroff said:
One thing to be aware of is mounting them if you don't have specific 2.5" SSD mounts in your case requiring a caddy/kit of some sort.
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Cable ties, or a drill ? ;)

I'm using a 250GB Samsung 840 EVO and so far everything has been pretty smooth and trouble free.
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No 5 year warranty though.

Having said that, if an SSD lasts 2-3 years, chances are it's going to still be working in 5.
 
Why is a 5 year warranty an issue? If you have the same SSD after 5 years I would be surprised. If you do, then as stated, a warranty won't help you when your data is gone - That's what backups are for.

If on the 4th or 5th year your SSD dies, the unit is probably going to be EOL anyway!
 
get a Samsung evo and a cheap 250gb hdd and clone it across/back the ssd up regularly,better than any 5 year warranty imo

for ssd reliability id rate Samsung #1 atm
 
If you must have a 5 year warranty then the Samsung 840 Pro would be my suggestion, the only thing the Evo had over the Pro was the Rapid Mode. There was an Samsung Magician Software update released about a week ago that as expected gave the Pro Rapid mode support.

However as suggested, regular multiple backups is the only true way to keep your important data safe. I'd use a cloud service and at least one external drive.
 
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kefan77 said:
if your data is vital, just back it up. no warranty will bring back your data if any drive fails.
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I do back up twice a day with an app called ArkBackup which then copies what i need too 2 separate 3.5 drives plus i take an image at the end of every day so as far as backing up is concerned i think i'm covered, maybe i should have used the term reliability.

Sin_Chase said:
Why is a 5 year warranty an issue?
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For me it show that the manf has trust in that line of products and hopefully will give me the best reliability from those drives.

Sin_Chase said:
If you have the same SSD after 5 years I would be surprised.
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I tend to keep them for a while so unless they die i suspect i will have the same drive in 5 years.

Sin_Chase said:
If you do, then as stated, a warranty won't help you when your data is gone - That's what backups are for.
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As you can see i think i have my back ups covered the only real issue there is i only upload to the cloud once a month, i'd like to do more but upload speed is rubbish here (700k) and i'd need to upload about 20GB of data which as i say i only do once a month.

All1
 
If it's a work critical machine, I'd buy 2x SSD's, keep one as a spare. If you take image backups every day, then restoring one when you need it will be a doddle.

Can't put a price on piece of mind.
 
Speed said:
Or rather than keep one spare run them in Raid 1.
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I don't know where people's reliance on RAID comes from.

RAID is not a backup.

RAID does not protect you from corrupting file systems, silly user mistakes, etc.

One SSD should be, at regular intervals, be imaged to a second drive which you then can boot off if the primary drive dies. In my case, I would loose a max of an hours work.
 
I never suggested it to be used as a backup, I'm fully aware of the limitations of Raid mirroring. Alloneword already has an established backup procedure backing up to local drives twice a day anyways. Although in addition to his local backup he should if he doesn't already use an off-site cloud system as well.

He is after reliability, not data protection. My suggestion was aimed at bledd. who said he should keep a spare drive, if you go down that route you might as well use both at the same time under Raid 1.
 
Fair enough but I disagree that RAID 1 is a suitable setup with a spare SSD/boot drive.

You want a disk to follow closely behind so that in the event of failure you swap over and continue with minimal disruption. RAID1 does not, in all cases, supply this.
 
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