Sandforce can be good, its just a matter of the firmware not being buggy. Best to worry a bit less about speed when getting SSDs
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote: > All of them crap controllers. OCZ would either be Indilinx or Sandforce, > neither of which have a good track record (though Indilinx far worse than > SF). Your Patriot and ADATA were probably Indilinx or Sandforce as well. > Your failures were almost certainly firmware problems, not NAND wearout. > > Samsung (830, 840 Pro) is where it's at, followed by Marvell controllers > (e.g., Crucial C300, m4, m500). > > SSDs are extremely reliable if you get one based on a good controller. > Friends don't let friends buy OCZ, though the controller manufacturer is > more critical than the brand label on the box. > > Greg > (owner/user of: 4x Intel G2, 1x Intel 320, 5x Samsung 830, 1x Samsung 840, > 2x Samsung 840 Pro with no failures) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert > Martin > Jr. > Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 10:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents > > I've had 4 SSD's die each in under 6 months. I'm not really sold on the > reliability ;) > 2 were OCZ and the others were a Patriot and a ADATA. All in different > boxes > and all were boot drives. I had a seagate hybrid drive die after 2 months > also. All were on UPS's too. > > I switched back to mechanical drives for my important machines. Don't have > the time to redo everything that ofter any more.... > > lopaka > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, May 5, 2013 6:03:02 AM > Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents > > Depends....if it is going in a laptop....most folks just put everything on > the SSD. I have a 256 GB SSD in my thinkpad, so everything goes on the > SSD. > > On my desktop, I used to have a 160GB SSD...so only Windows and programs > went on the SSD...all documents and stuff went on the d drive, which is a > hard drive. I now have a 500 GB SSD, but I still put non-programs on the > hard drive. > > As you know, many laptops come with SSDs only....no need to worry about > writes...unless you are doing something waaaayyy outside of normal. > > I got my first SSD in Jan 2011...that drive is still working great! > > On 5/4/2013 9:25 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote: > > I've just bought my first SSD. Should I be moving folders like > >Documents and Libraries to another drive? Whats the current status on > >that? I read it both ways over the last couple of years. > > > > Thanks...Steve > > > > >
