Guys, I'm not for/against anyone/any brand here.
I am sorry if my earlier statement created confusions which I can try to clarify for sure! I just intend to share my personal experience on SSDs here. In simple terms, I had meant SSDs need more time to stabilize as the environment in which they will be embedded is quite complex. which does not mean all of these will be less reliable but talking generically there can be few reliability issues which is understantable.
Dervious, earlier you had also stated that the SSDs aren't reliable but in your last statement you have reversed this!
Talking about price and recommending SandDisk Extreme 240GB, on the day I had checked this was priced lesser than the samsung one. I had mentioned THE choice as I had got so excited after using this product. I do not have any time for any discussions which get targetted or go wrong way. Friends, I just love sharing my true experiences here!
Thanks for your reply.
Just to make it clear, I didn't state that SSDs aren't reliable, I stated "I don't think that reliability is "guaranteed" on any SSD, and Samsung SSDs do have a good reliability record." in response to your claim that "I always prefer the sandforce one purely because of better performance & reliability which is surely guaranteed."
My personal choice of SSD at the moment is Samsung, in partricular the non-pros. This too is based on personal experience, and also on value for money. I have not tried a SanDisk Extreme SSD, but I'm sure they are perfectly fine. What I have done is look at a few reviews and benchmarking tests, and I'm sure that if I did try a SanDisk Extreme, I would be impressed by it, but probably would find that it performs very similarly to the Samsung and Crucial SSDs that I have installed for customers. Benchmarking may show that one SSD performs slightly better than another one in certain tests, but in other tests it performs slightly worse. All I know is that I`ve installed a fair few Crucial M4s, Samsung 830s and 840 non pros, plus an OCZ Vertex 2 and an Intel X-25 80gb(which I owned and used for 3 years). They all performed well (and the Intel seemed not far behind the newer SSDs in performance). The only problems I`ve had were with my Intel, which had to be replaced after 2.5 years, and the OCZ suffered a "partial failure" after a couple of years which required a firmware upgrade + re-format (but is still working today).
Time will tell, but Samsung SSDs do seem to be reliable (reliable enough for users to feel fairly confident that it won't fail - although backups of importnant data should always be made, no matter what the storage media), I doubt they are 100% reliable, but I reckon they are well made and probably won't have the reliability problems that earlier OCZ SSDs seemed to suffer from. And I expect the SanDisk SSDs will also be fairly reliable. I do hope that justintime2001 has found something helpful in our advice, and has now got, or is going to get an SSD. Proabably the best single upgrade for a PC or a laptop.
