Which SSD?

SkidMarkKing · 19 Aug 2013 at 00:04

Been looking around for a second hand SSD drive 128GB.

I was told to get a Samsung Evo is it?

I have found a Crucial M4 for £55 second hand which is temping. Are these worth buying?

C64 · 19 Aug 2013 at 03:48

45-55 sounds about right for a second hand 128gb m4 although £55 is too close to brand new prices of the samsung evo for my liking, yea they are great had one over a year been rock solid never skipped a beat and this one was second hand.

I think the crucial M4's have been surpassed a bit now in terms of speed, but still worth getting on a good second hand deal.

I am satisfied with mine and I am only on sata 2 so my speed is only 280 ish so 500 ish must be even better.

Not sure on the benchmarks but I'd imagine most people aren't going to notice 500mb sec vs 550 mb sec.

SkidMarkKing · 19 Aug 2013 at 10:40

Grrr! Went to buy it and it had sold

Atleast I know if one comes up cheap in the future they're worth getting.

Thanks for the reply.

Johnchristin · 22 Aug 2013 at 13:58

I dont think it is always worth buying something which is really so cheap. I feel there will be some catch in these deals. To me, reliability matters first & pricing is secondary. The only contender who has impressed me in terms of reliability is only sandforce based SSDs like corsair force series.

Dervious · 22 Aug 2013 at 15:50

Sandforce drives do have a history of "issues".

That's not to say that the latest drives are unreliable.

Samsung drives (with their own ARM based controller) are now a very popular choice and competitively priced. They perform well and I`ve not experienced or heard of any reliability issues. Performance is also very good, even with incompressible data (unlike Sandforce drives).

wazza300 · 22 Aug 2013 at 18:36

Johnchristin said:
I dont think it is always worth buying something which is really so cheap. I feel there will be some catch in these deals. To me, reliability matters first & pricing is secondary. The only contender who has impressed me in terms of reliability is only sandforce based SSDs like corsair force series.

+1

corsair force gt (red ones) are good

Dervious · 22 Aug 2013 at 22:01

wazza300 said:
+1

corsair force gt (red ones) are good

Tad pricey though.

Do they perform any better than Samsung or Crucial drives ?

wazza300 · 23 Aug 2013 at 01:29

they are now compared to the newer samsungs,but before they arrived on the scene they were a decent purchase

about the same performance but less random read iops on the gt

http://forums.tweaktown.com/storage...g-840-pro-256gb-vs-corsair-forcegt-120gb.html

Dervious · 23 Aug 2013 at 09:23

They look to be very close in performance.

A bit unfair on the GT, as the Samsung is the larger 256gb version.

Here's another comparison.

http://www.ssdreview.com/review/com...-840-pro-128gb-25-inch-dxm03b0q/reallife.html

The Samsung seems to edge it in these tests, but (yet again !) I'd say that the average user would not notice.

wazza300 · 23 Aug 2013 at 11:06

yeah I would recommend them to anyone if the price was right

foster grant · 23 Aug 2013 at 12:02

Just save up a little more and get one brand new

Johnchristin · 29 Aug 2013 at 13:59

I agree with wazza300. To me when it is comes to data, I do not think of price. Because data is priceless! Having said this, sandforce is a clear winner in terms of assurances & to keep up the same. Friends I would advice always do not go by the statistics/benchmarks. They might be false at times.

Dervious · 29 Aug 2013 at 17:59

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-1438508.html

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...sandforce-still-unreliable-used-year-ago.html

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1701653

Mmmm, sandforce is a clear winner ?

When you research SSD reliability, the word "sandforce" does seem to crop up a fair bit, and not in a good way. Not saying they're bad, but I don't read about as many issues with other SSD controllers.