Unsure on SSD

Macky

Macky

Macky

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Looking for a new ~120GB SSD for new PC. However I have read so much conflicting information on what is good and what to avoid etc. Been told to completely avoid OCZ due to very poor reliability, avoid Crucial M4 & V4. Avoid Kingston, Plextor, A-data, samsung non pro drives, sandisk and the corsair neutron series. Basically it suggests that only Intel & and Mushkin seem to be viable contenders. I can't believe that all of these above drives are that bad? OCZ seem to get good reviews everywhere really and are the cheapest.

Help guys! :D
 
get any, if your lucky it will work and last fine, never had a problem with mine and i have 2 adata 256gb ones, even though every ones advice here was buy samsung.

anything is better than a standard drive, so it's down to budget and warranty for me
 
Macky said:
Looking for a new ~120GB SSD for new PC. However I have read so much conflicting information on what is good and what to avoid etc. Been told to completely avoid OCZ due to very poor reliability, avoid Crucial M4 & V4. Avoid Kingston, Plextor, A-data, samsung non pro drives, sandisk and the corsair neutron series. Basically it suggests that only Intel & and Mushkin seem to be viable contenders. I can't believe that all of these above drives are that bad? OCZ seem to get good reviews everywhere really and are the cheapest.

Help guys! :D
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The problem is that you will always find people who have problems will post, people that dont very rarely do.

Personally I have just bought a Samsung 840 Pro and coming from a hard drive it is worlds apart. My criteria was that I wanted something known to be fairly reliable and (almost) the quickest available at the time. FYI: The Samsung 840 Non-Pro is not necessarily a bad drive, just the choice of lower quality flash COULD affect its long-term reliability.

OCZ have had issues in the past, but to be fair I wonder if they do still undeservingly get a bad press - perhaps this is why they are looking to move away from the consumer business.
 
the crucial v4 is there budget ssd,ocz have had reliability issues in the past and the cheap drives tend to use poor quality nand memory

crucial m4/intel and Samsung tend to be the most reliable,the difference between the Samsung 840 and the pro models is tlc nand vs mlc on the pro,mlc nand has a longer lifespan however tlc nand and samsungs own controller seem to be doing a good job regarding performance/reliability
 
Paul_cz said:
I only read good things about Crucial M4, so I bought it 6 months ago.
No regrets whatsoever.
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The M4 is supposed to be up there with Samsung/Intel in terms of reliability especially (and is the other main option excluding Samsung, if you do not want a Sandforce-based SSD), although it has been around for a while and performance has moved on a little bit.
 
I recommend the Samsung SSDs and Crucial M4s.

I have three Samsung 830s, three Samsung 840s, and three Crucial M4s and I haven't had any trouble with any of them. Some firmware versions of the M4s have had some issues for some people, but you can usually find quite good forums posts on which firmware versions to avoid.

Samsung 840s have a bad reputation due to the TLC flash they use, but I suspect unless you plan on running industrial database servers off the drives, you'll replace the drives far before the flash wears out.

The Crucial V4 is the budget version and not as fast as the M4, so it's unsurprising people tell you to avoid them.
 
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