SSD with good build quality

grizzly

I've had to return two Vertex SSDs (Vertex 2 120GB) in the last year. Was I unlucky or is there a maker that is more reliable? I'm thinking maybe Intel?

MiniNukinfuts

Everyone will recommend the crucial M4, but personally, I love the OWC drives

RUCKING FETARD

Chosen wrote: »

To be honest, both Crucial and Intel had firmware issues with the M4 and 330 lines respectively. The issue in Crucial's case resulted in data loss and in Intel's case the drive was just bricked. This might be somewhat acceptable for Crucial, but not for Intel, with the size of the R&D and Quality teams they are supposed to have.

On the other hand, Samsung have been an OEM provider for SSDs for Apple, Dell, HP etc. for the last 4-5 years. They haven't had a single issue with their drives getting bricked, or losing their data. They cannot afford to allow beta testing to be done by the customer, because their customers are Apple and Dell, not Joe Public.
The failure rate on the Samsung PM800 and 830 series is as close to 0 as possible and this is the benchmark to top.

Now, don't get me wrong, the M4 and the Vertex 4 are fantastic drives. Intel has not produced anything remarkable in the last 2 years, they are just rebadging drives just like Corsair, Plextor and soon MSI.

So at the same time Crucial are concentrating on performance and they are releasing firmware updates that offer more of it, Intel dropped the development of their own controllers back in the X25-M days, while Samsung do not need to release firmware updates; their drives are already scoring best in 80-90% of the benchmarks, they have the best garbage collection by a mile and the best track record in reliability.
The 830's only disadvantage up to 2 months ago, was price: it was consistently priced 20-30% higher than other SSDs in the same league. Now that disadvantage is reduced to the other extreme, where the 830 is in some cases the cheapest SSD as well as the best.

Samsung 830, don't forget to check on dabs.ie.

DMReeves

my vertex 2 is still going strong for 2 years now...

m4rkiz

try crucial m4 or samsung 830

i have 4 different ocz vertexes 2 and never had any serious problems with any of them (except for 50% chance of bsod when waking in certain asus laptop - drive was not powered on on wake)