This is really good to hear, as what I just bought was a Samsung 840....
Steve
On 5/6/2013 11:40 AM, Greg Sevart 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)
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Jr.
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 10:06 AM
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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
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From: Anthony Q. Martin <amar...@charter.net>
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
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
