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| Thread ID: 137988 | 2014-09-19 22:51:00 | Best SSD Drive? | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1384332 | 2014-09-19 22:51:00 | I'm not sure which is the best SSD Drive. I have it down to Kingston HyperX or the Samsun 840 and I'm looking for 120 GB drive for the OS. The more I look the more confused I become. Any advice on the best and fastest SSD Drive? | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1384333 | 2014-09-19 22:52:00 | I'm, using the 840 EVO on the other PC here. Its pretty fast. Would have got the Pro at the time but it was too dear. The Samsung 850 Pro is also out now, but that costs a bit atm | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1384334 | 2014-09-20 14:30:00 | www.amazon.com GB 840 Samsung It looks like I should buy the 250 GB instead of the 120 because the read is 110 MB faster |
lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1384335 | 2014-09-20 22:03:00 | Yup thats why I purchased the 250 GB. The lower the capacity, the lower the cache | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1384336 | 2014-09-20 22:48:00 | Against all the odds, I've had a run of bad luck with two SSDs failing in less than 12 months, the first was an Adata, and the recent failure a Kingston. I've just bought a 120GB Intel 520 series, we'll see how that goes. The Kingston failed with bad 'sectors', lots of them. I used AOMEI Partition Assistant to wipe the drive, made a partition and formatted, then re-scanned. The bad sectors appeared to have vanished. I reinstalled the OS from a backup and all seemed OK for a week, then the same old pattern started with Windows not fully loading. A scan showed bad sectors again. Another Adata is perfectly OK and is used every day. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1384337 | 2014-09-21 22:07:00 | Any advice on the best and fastest SSD Drive? If you want the best, most reliable : Intel or Samsung If you want the fastest : whatevers the current speed demon . Toms Hardware does a SSD speed ranking. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1384338 | 2014-09-22 07:36:00 | I'm due for a new computer soon as I'm updating to W7Pro (I'm a technology follower, not a leader). I'd like to have my OS & programs on SSD, but how is the reliability and life expectancy for SSDs these days? To spare me heartache if one went down, I'd like to run two in RAID 1 (if SSD's acommodate that, can't see why not), I had a spate of disk failures when I first got this computer but being able to drop in a new drive and let it rebuild took a lot of the stress out of my working life. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1384339 | 2014-09-22 08:08:00 | Cant answer that. Have only had this SSD up and running since June/July. But its so far so good. You may have to have a look around. There have been some SSD's that have had (or may still have probs). Like the Intel 530. This SSD a few mths ago had probs (with its firmware), when people rebooted. It kept disappearing. Dont know if this has been fixed yet tho The one I've got the Evo so I've read it's performance can degrade over time. Havent noticed that yet. But people have said a format should fix that or a firmware upgrade, if one comes out But if you decide to get one the bigger the better. and it'll be faster. Since it'll have more cache. The lower the capacity the slower it maybe I may change this hdd to SSD soon. Even tho this has only got SATA 2, I've read that SATA 3 SSD's are still pretty fast. Compared to 3.5's on a SATA 2 port |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1384340 | 2014-09-22 08:09:00 | People like to make a big deal about SSD's not lasting as long as traditional mechanical HDD's but apart from some firmware issues with early sandforce controllers and some poor quality control on some brands they are really very reliable and should last 10-20 years or more under normal home usage scenarios. Also when they do eventually wear out it's the ability to write that goes so you can still retrieve your data in theory. I'm on my 2nd SSD boot drive over the last couple of years and would never go back (upgraded for more space not because of issues). Stick with one of the more reputable brands like Samsung or Intel and you should be fine. As with anything there's always the chance you'll get unlucky and get a faulty one so some sort of backup strategy is a good Idea. Up to you if that means running a RAID 1 array or not. I think RAID may affect TRIM support under windows but I haven't done it myself so I'm not sure. I have mine set to save an image at regular intervals onto another internal HDD. Not quite as good as an external backup but a lot easier to automate. Also bear in mind a RAID array will mirror any viruses and file corruption etc so it's not as good as a backup in that sense. Protects you against drive failure but not other forms of data loss. |
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| 1384341 | 2014-09-22 08:34:00 | www.extremetech.com | dugimodo (138) | ||
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