SSD

segasega

Hey guys,

Looking to pick up a SSD for under the 80 euro mark. I want to get it from Komplett or Elara. Looking at both sites, Komplett seem to have the better options in that price range. I know you guys like your Samsungs, but I was looking at these two from Coesair and Intel:

http://komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ssd/20094637/corsair_force_gt_60gb_2_5_sata600/details.aspx

http://komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ssd/20157090/intel_330_series_60gb_2_5_sata_600/details.aspx

Or I could throw a few more quid at it and wait till this is back in stock?:
http://komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ssd/20183022/samsung_840_series_120gb_2_5_sata600/details.aspx


Also wanted to ask, how much you guys trust SSDs for their lent of life, failure rate? Reading around online, seems some people dont trust them.

Cheers

Gumbi

My Crucial M4 128GB is still going strong a year and a half later

Like any product there are good models and bad models/good makes and bad makes.

I would highly recommend getting a 120/128GB SSD, 60/64 will disappear in no time, especially considering 20GB is automatically taken up by Windows.

HWVS has Sandisks for 80euro I think, but shipping for one item isn't worth it. I'd say wait for a deal on Amazon.

solarith

Got a SanDisk a while back for 100 quid, they're cheaper now for 128. They're brilliant, hands down the greatest PC upgrade I've done. But keep a mind on the speeds when buying. The read/write speed varies greatly depending on the drive.

Regarding lifetime, they don't last forever and they don't die after a week. I've mine 6 months only, so can't really judge yet.

Just a sidenote, do not defrag an SSD. SSD have a lifetime based on X amount reads/writes. Performing a defrag with cause thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of miniature reads/writes to the drive, getting it ever closer to that X amount it can perform. So defragging reduces the lifetime of the drive.

segasega

http://www.elara.ie/productdetail.aspx?productcode=WCESDSSDP128GG25

There is that SanDisk one on Elara.

marco_polo

I usually drop this blog whenever the SSD lifespan question arises, much like a CPU chances are you will be replacing an SSD for upgrade/performance reasons long before it actually reaches the physical end of its life.

http://www.corsair.com/blog/force-series-ssd-life-testing/