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| Thread ID: 127557 | 2012-10-30 08:19:00 | SSD Intel vs OCZ | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 1309722 | 2012-10-30 21:08:00 | The main reason why the OCZ's are cheaper is because they take the fastest and cheapest parts, not the parts known for their reliability. And yet Intel are the ones who had to offer full refunds on their 520 line (a corporate-grade product no less) when they (and SandForce, who supplied the controller) didn't realise it couldn't actually support AES256 encryption until well after it went retail... failing to test if your product can actually support one of it's listed features seems pretty cost-cutting to me ;) Yes, OCZs earlier drives were fairly budget. The Agility4 and Vertex4 are a different kettle of fish. They've moved away from the issue-prone Sandforce controllers, and moved away from some of their lower-end flash providers, and I would say that they are better in both performance and reliability than most of Intel's current consumer-grade offerings. That said, I do believe Samsung 830 series is the overall pick of the bunch atm - they're not the very fastest, but damn they are stable and reliable. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1309723 | 2012-10-30 21:13:00 | I only use the Intel 520 series and haven't had any issues yet. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1309724 | 2012-10-30 21:21:00 | Yes, OCZs earlier drives were fairly budget. The Agility4 and Vertex4 are a different kettle of fish. They've moved away from the issue-prone Sandforce controllers, and moved away from some of their lower-end flash providers, and I would say that they are better in both performance and reliability than most of Intel's current consumer-grade offerings. Ah OK good to know, thanks! I've seen the Agility 4 series being pushed in most PC retailers over the Agility 3 series. I've got a Vertex 3 and 2x Agility 3 drives at home. May be worth picking another one up for my main desktop and putting that into my laptop perhaps :D ...now to just convince SWMBO I need the upgrade :p |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1309725 | 2012-10-30 22:01:00 | Pretty sure Intels enterprise line is the 7 series. They do cool things like when they fail, fail in read only mode, not full on dead mode. I see the Intel 335 series was announced yesterday also. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1309726 | 2012-10-30 22:56:00 | Pretty sure Intels enterprise line is the 7 series. They do cool things like when they fail, fail in read only mode, not full on dead mode. I see the Intel 335 series was announced yesterday also. Yeah, the 710 series are enterprise-grade SSDs and are very good. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1309727 | 2012-10-30 23:19:00 | I'm happy with the performance I'm getting with mine. Mum sometimes gets irritated because it's so quick, it'll start and have mozilla open before she gets an connection from my router, and she swears at it for being a piece of ****. Honestly, the startup and shutdown times are SO much faster than they were. It used to take up to a minute to shut down on the green drive, albeit with a fair bit of stuff being installed/running, but now it's just tick tick tick off. |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1309728 | 2012-10-31 00:11:00 | Intel for reliability | nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1309729 | 2012-10-31 00:27:00 | I would go for the Intel, but just cause I already have one and it's been great - also had some bad experiences with customers OCZ drives, I'm sure the new ones are all good though. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1309730 | 2012-10-31 00:56:00 | Call me old-fashioned, but I like * Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ: 1000 GB, 10,000 rpm, 64MB Cache, SATA 6 Gb/s less than $400 * Seagate Momentus XT ST750LX003 Solid State Hybrid, 750GB, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache, SATA 3 Gb/s, 8GB Solid State Storage about $200 both quiet and pretty fast. The Seagate is very good at "read-mostly" applications An Intel 320 600 GB drive is in the $1,500 - $2,000 range |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 1309731 | 2012-10-31 01:05:00 | SSD's are a conspiracy, they only sell them so that you get used to paying $300 for 512gb so that when you look at a regular hard drive you are enticed by that fact you can get 1tb for $100. but in all seriousness I would take the extra 8gb considering the price of SSD's and kingdragonfly you cannot compare the read/write speeds of a mechanical HD to that of an SSD. SSD's are phenomenally faster and handle multiple thing being accessed at once much better than a mechanical. |
Slankydudl (16687) | ||
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