HardOCP Question on SSD

[FrgMstr]

Top three companies/brands you would buy an SSD from? Go!

 

[Blue Fox]

Intel, Crucial, and OCZ.

 

[Oldie]

Intel. That's it, don't really trust the others.

 

[OldSchool]

Intel, Crucial, Kingston branded Intel?....

 

[Old Hippie]

Intel, Crucial, Micron.

 

[notarat]

Intel.

IF I were to buy an SSD, that is...I'm still on mechanical ones and plan to stay on them for a long time to come.

 

[lilb3119]

Intel, Crucial, OCZ.

 

[Imitation]

Intel, Crucial, OCZ

 

[DOOMHAMMA]

In this order:
OCZ, Intel, Crucial.
OCZ and Intel are obvious choices. They essentially run the show and everyone else plays catch up.
I wanna throw in Corsair and Kingston as interchangeable with Crucial. But I'll stick with Crucial as my "third".

 

[AllStarMe]

OCZ, Crucial, Corsair

 

[Alyosha]

OCZ, Crucial, Intel

 

[evildre]

Kingston, Intel, Crucial.

Kingston won a customer for life when they supported an old 16-port 10/100 switch I had ... in 2007.

 

[SorienOR]

Corsair, crucial, ocz

 

[resutoran]

Corsair
Kingston
Intel

 

[Shahlan]

OCZ, Intel, Crucial in that order.

 

[Nickbaldwin86]

Intel, Corsair, Kingston

 

[Xyvotha]

OCZ
Crucial
Corsair

in that order.

 

[Skirge01]

Corsair, Crucial, OCZ

 

[travbrad]

Intel, Crucial, OCZ

Agreed.

I would consider other brands, but if they are anywhere close in price (to models with similar firmware/performance) I'd buy one of those 3.

 

[CrazyRob]

OCZ, Corsair, G.Skill

 

[DooKey]

Corsair, Crucial, Kingston

 

[DesertCat]

Intel
Crucial
G.Skill

I have to add G.Skill because I already have one from them and have been quite happy with their support. I had one of their early 256 Meg models that didn't include TRIM. After it began to slow down after a few months of use, I went through their RMA process to upgrade to a newer model that did. Only cost me the shipping.

 

[AtkinS]

Crucial, Crosair, OCZ.

Micron and sandforce is high on my list.

Intel is pretty acceptable.

 

[Hallis]

Intel, Crucial, and OCZ.

In that order. Model would be based on application.

 

[cnk]

Intel, OCZ, Crucial

 

[ml_paladin888]

OCZ, intel, Corsair

 

[keshavcharya]

Crucial, Corsair, G.Skill

 

[Cogency]

Intel, OCZ, Corsair

 

[Domingo]

Corsair, Intel...and while I don't think they make any now, if Western Digital were to start they'd be atop my list.

 

[pontiac6000]

Intel, Corsair, G.Skill

 

[PTNL]

Intel
Intel
Intel

 

[Patman]

1. Intel
2. Intel
3. Intel

 

[ramrod126]

OCZ (I own a Vertex 2), Crucial, Corsair

 

[DOOMHAMMA]

Corsair, Intel...and while I don't think they make any now, if Western Digital were to start they'd be atop my list.

They do, but it disappointed everyone because it is junk. Too slow, too late.

 

[codegrinder]

Intel, Crucial, Corsair.

 

[zyzeast]

why are people so partial to Intel anyway? what do they have over the other big name manufacturers?

 

[RadioActiveLobster]

Intel, Corsair, G.Skill


One of my bigger factors would be price/performance. I can't justify the cost of a 256GB SSD (and that's what I need for my OS and programs).

Plus it would have to have TRIM and all that stuff

 

[Ualdayan]

Intel is definitely at the top in terms of trust, if they offer substantial performance advantages Corsair, and if it's cheap enough OCZ (I trust them a bit less though so I'd definitely want to be more on the ball with backups.)

 

[Cantroy]

Intel, OCZ, and um... Corsair for the 6Gbps / Performance 3 series if I could afford one...

 

[DrkMyrlin]

ocz, intel, corsair