Posted: 4/30/2013 12:48:49 PM EDT
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed.
A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. |
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The newer SSD's have much better controllers and thus have a lower tendency to fail. I almost always go with WD because of their track record, but Intel makes a good drive too (surprise I know). Here is an example of an intel SSD with 132 reviews with a 5 star rating, can't go wrong there.
I recommend doing a new egg search for SSD in the price range you're looking for, then sort by positive feedback. That's served me well over the years. Also, don't get Sata III unless your motherboard specifically has 6.0Gb/s sata connections otherwise you're wasting money. You can get Sata 2 drives for much cheaper. But if you are planning on upgrading your mobo it may be a worthwhile investment. As far as migrating the data: I almost always recommend a fresh install. So get an external drive, move over essential files, fresh install windows, thank me later. If you don't want to go the fresh install route, you can get an image software (I use acronis) that will make a backup image of your HD then you can just put that image on your new hard drive. This is what corporations do, which is why they typically have all the same computers with the same hardware. Norton ghost is another popular one, although I have not used it. |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. Samsung 840 Pro Crucial M4 |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. I have been running two OCZ Vertex 2's in RAID for almost two years on my current build. I have had zero issues with it thus far. This holds my Windows 7(64 bit), anti-virus and other applications that get run daily. My main data storage (photos, music, movies, TV from tuner-recorder I installed) goes on two WD Caviar blacks also in Raid. |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. Samsung 840 Pro Crucial M4 Samsung 840 Pro all the way. It is an amazing drive. You want to buy MLC and not TLC. MLC is better, for various reasons. The 840 PRO is MLC, the 840 is TLC. So make sure you get the PRO version. Also, Samsung includes a usb device and cloning software with their product. So if you want to clone the data of the disk you are replacing, Samsung again is the way to go. Very simple and easy edit- forgot to mention.....the larger the SSD, the faster it performs. |
| My netbook has a 60GB Kingston SSD in it which has been highly reliable. My MBP has an OWC 120GB SSD in it which has also performed quite well (40 GB of that runs Windows 7 Ultimate better than any other MBP I've seen running it). The SSD has had several different distros on it since I installed it. The MBP wasn't a fresh install (it was but it wasn't) but was migrated over from the HDD (which remained in the computer) and then I symbolically linked Documents, Photos, Videos, Music and what not back over from the HDD (so all of that stays on the 320 GB HDD where the SDD has my desktop, downloads, temp files, and primary mount point for boot). |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. Samsung 840 Pro Crucial M4 Samsung 840 Pro all the way. It is an amazing drive. You want to buy MLC and not TLC. MLC is better, for various reasons. The 840 PRO is MLC, the 840 is TLC. So make sure you get the PRO version. Also, Samsung includes a usb device and cloning software with their product. So if you want to clone the data of the disk you are replacing, Samsung again is the way to go. Very simple and easy edit- forgot to mention.....the larger the SSD, the faster it performs. So it seems like it's down to Intel or Samsung, pro version. I just wish they'd drop the price on them, the prices seem to be fixed. I've seen places like Newegg, Tiger etc dropping prices on the non pro version and did some digging. Apparently the non pro version is a real mixed bag. |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. Samsung 840 Pro Crucial M4 Samsung 840 Pro all the way. It is an amazing drive. You want to buy MLC and not TLC. MLC is better, for various reasons. The 840 PRO is MLC, the 840 is TLC. So make sure you get the PRO version. Also, Samsung includes a usb device and cloning software with their product. So if you want to clone the data of the disk you are replacing, Samsung again is the way to go. Very simple and easy edit- forgot to mention.....the larger the SSD, the faster it performs. So it seems like it's down to Intel or Samsung, pro version. I just wish they'd drop the price on them, the prices seem to be fixed. I've seen places like Newegg, Tiger etc dropping prices on the non pro version and did some digging. Apparently the non pro version is a real mixed bag. Just join slickdeals.net After you make an account, set up an alert to your email (very easy to do) for: ssd Kick back and wait for a Samsung 840 Pro to go on sale |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. Samsung 840 Pro Crucial M4 Samsung 840 Pro all the way. It is an amazing drive. You want to buy MLC and not TLC. MLC is better, for various reasons. The 840 PRO is MLC, the 840 is TLC. So make sure you get the PRO version. Also, Samsung includes a usb device and cloning software with their product. So if you want to clone the data of the disk you are replacing, Samsung again is the way to go. Very simple and easy edit- forgot to mention.....the larger the SSD, the faster it performs. So it seems like it's down to Intel or Samsung, pro version. I just wish they'd drop the price on them, the prices seem to be fixed. I've seen places like Newegg, Tiger etc dropping prices on the non pro version and did some digging. Apparently the non pro version is a real mixed bag. Samsung is cutting edge ssd technology, so it isn't going to be cheap. |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. Samsung 840 Pro Crucial M4 Samsung 840 Pro all the way. It is an amazing drive. You want to buy MLC and not TLC. MLC is better, for various reasons. The 840 PRO is MLC, the 840 is TLC. So make sure you get the PRO version. Also, Samsung includes a usb device and cloning software with their product. So if you want to clone the data of the disk you are replacing, Samsung again is the way to go. Very simple and easy edit- forgot to mention.....the larger the SSD, the faster it performs. So it seems like it's down to Intel or Samsung, pro version. I just wish they'd drop the price on them, the prices seem to be fixed. I've seen places like Newegg, Tiger etc dropping prices on the non pro version and did some digging. Apparently the non pro version is a real mixed bag. Samsung is cutting edge ssd technology, so it isn't going to be cheap. I've seen some screaming deals on the non pro versions. I'm kicking myself for not buying an intel during the black FridayI deals. Tiger had a Intel 330 180g for $89 after MIR. I haven't seen anything that cheap since. |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. Samsung 840 Pro Crucial M4 Samsung 840 Pro all the way. It is an amazing drive. You want to buy MLC and not TLC. MLC is better, for various reasons. The 840 PRO is MLC, the 840 is TLC. So make sure you get the PRO version. Also, Samsung includes a usb device and cloning software with their product. So if you want to clone the data of the disk you are replacing, Samsung again is the way to go. Very simple and easy edit- forgot to mention.....the larger the SSD, the faster it performs. So it seems like it's down to Intel or Samsung, pro version. I just wish they'd drop the price on them, the prices seem to be fixed. I've seen places like Newegg, Tiger etc dropping prices on the non pro version and did some digging. Apparently the non pro version is a real mixed bag. Samsung is cutting edge ssd technology, so it isn't going to be cheap. I've seen some screaming deals on the non pro versions. I'm kicking myself for not buying an intel during the black FridayI deals. Tiger had a Intel 330 180g for $89 after MIR. I haven't seen anything that cheap since. Probably the best price per GB you will find: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=768803&is=REG&Q=&A=details |
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I'm looking to install an SSD on my PC but I'm seeing mixed results about reliability, controllers etc. Anybody got some recommendations? My priorities are reliability then speed. A recommendation for migrating data would also be appreciated. I really don't won't to have to start all over again. Samsung 840 Pro Crucial M4 Samsung 840 Pro all the way. It is an amazing drive. You want to buy MLC and not TLC. MLC is better, for various reasons. The 840 PRO is MLC, the 840 is TLC. So make sure you get the PRO version. Also, Samsung includes a usb device and cloning software with their product. So if you want to clone the data of the disk you are replacing, Samsung again is the way to go. Very simple and easy edit- forgot to mention.....the larger the SSD, the faster it performs. So it seems like it's down to Intel or Samsung, pro version. I just wish they'd drop the price on them, the prices seem to be fixed. I've seen places like Newegg, Tiger etc dropping prices on the non pro version and did some digging. Apparently the non pro version is a real mixed bag. Samsung is cutting edge ssd technology, so it isn't going to be cheap. I've seen some screaming deals on the non pro versions. I'm kicking myself for not buying an intel during the black FridayI deals. Tiger had a Intel 330 180g for $89 after MIR. I haven't seen anything that cheap since. Im telling you right now, you do NOT want to buy a non-pro version of the Samsung SSD series. Why? Simple. Non-Pro = TLC Pro = MLC You want to buy a MLC drive otherwise you are just setting yourself up for possible early onset drive failure. That is why the PRO version costs so much more...because they ARE worth it. Also, again, let me re-iterate, the larger the capacity of the SSD, the faster it performs. |
| Hardware Info is running a torture test on a pair Samsung 840s (non-pro) and apparently they still have not failed yet as of the last update on 05/08. Perhaps the TLC memory is not as vulnerable as first thought: LINK |
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Bought a 64GB Crucial M4 SSD and threw it in the desktop almost a year ago. Worked like a champ, until some stupid bug in the firmware would cause it to power down after an hour. Firmware flash fixed that.
Got a 256GB M4 and switched to using that for my OS drive. The 64GB drive is there to act as a 'scratch' drive for DVD and BluRay encoding. |
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Interesting results from the above torture test:
Even though we consider the SSD to have ‘died’ after 3187 cycles, the first broken sectors were reported after 2945 cycles, as mentioned above. At that moment, we had written over 726000 GiB (or over 779538 GB) to the SSD. Given a normal use of 10 GB of written data per day, this means that the SSD would last for more than 198 years.
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