Agreed +100 on the Intel drives, any of them.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:58:49AM -0600, Greg Sevart wrote:
> What drives were they? Anything based on the first gen Indilinx controllers
> (e.g., OCZ Vertex 1) were garbage. We bought around 50 of them at work, and
> I think they've almost all failed. The Intels have been rock solid (one
> failure out of around 50, and all data was recoverable), and I wouldn't feel
> uncomfortable with Marvell or Samsung based drives either. I'm still a
> little wary on SandForce after seeing a number of reports, but they're
> infinitely better than the Indilinx-based drives. Intel qualified them for
> their new 520 SSD, but only after a year of validation and custom firmware.
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Bryan G. Seitz
