Most reliable SSD brand?

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hvale2k5

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My refurbished 250gig Crucial died just after 3months... can you guys recommend an SSD brand out there that would last more than 1-2 years?
 
Intel without a doubt. It might not have the fastest write speeds around but then again write speeds are not all that important. Something like 95% of activity on the SSD will be reads anyway.

BTW, any minute now 'Old Hippie' should drop in here and claim to have had 3 Intel SSDs die in a row. Apparently he's just lucky like that....

If you don't want to go Intel I would then reccomend OCZ. They seem to have the most robust and reliable selection of SSDs with competitive read and write rates and they are good about handling their RMAs should the need ever arise.

One word of warning: Whatever you decide on I would shy away from Corsair's current lineup - out of 40 or so client builds with Corsair SSDs I've had 5 come back with mysteriously dead SSDs. If you visit various forums you'll find that lots of other people have had Corsair SSDs up and die or start randomly vanishing in the BIOS. Corsair's attitude seems to be quite cavalier about it when you visit their own support forums. I love Corsair PSUs and memory but I won't touch their SSDs anymore.
 
well i got it for 300$ when they were on quickstrike, but the damn thing died after 3months w/o warranty b/c it's refurbished. Anyway thx for the advices, im looking into intel & Ocz vertex 2 now.
 
I have had no issues with the following SSD's:

(1) Intel X-25M G1 80gb ~1.5yrs
(2) Intel X-18M G1 80gb ~1yr
(2) Intel X-25M G2 80gb ~1.25yr
(1) Corsair F120 120gb ~0.25yr
(2) Crucial C300 64gb ~0.25yr
(1) G.Skill PhoenixPro 120gb 46minutes (just got it and it boots up)
 
My vote goes to the OCZ Vertex 2. Very reliable, and OCZ has great forums for any help that you may need with Moderators answering your questions.
 
I've been buying the Intel ones, we don't use spinning platters except in 1 rack now
 
BTW, any minute now 'Old Hippie' should drop in here and claim to have had 3 Intel SSDs die in a row.
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I was lazy yesterday. :D

I still have the "Intel Warranty Parts Order" emails for all 3 if you'd like to see them. ;)
 
just snag an intel x25-m g2 160 for 245, writing speed is important at all? but it's still faster than my hdd 7200rpm ?
 
hvale2k5 said:
just snag an intel x25-m g2 160 for 245, writing speed is important at all? but it's still faster than my hdd 7200rpm ?
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Sequential write speed may be a little slower than writing on the outer tracks of your 7200RPM drive if you have a drive with 500GB platters or larger. However small writes will be 100s of times faster on the Intel SSD.
 
didn't Intel have numerous issues with bad firmware's or some other issues where people had their SSD's bricked?...don't know how anyone can call them the most reliable after that

me personally I have a G.Skill SSD...not saying they are the best but I've never had any issues eith the drive...only thing bad about G.sKill is that they are very slow in releasing firmware updates
 
Have been using a Kingston V+ 128GB SSD for about 6 months now on both my desktop and one on my laptop. I understand its performance may not be the fastest but, so far, so good, no problems of any kind. Anyone else have any experience or comments?
 
polonyc2 said:
didn't Intel have numerous issues with bad firmware's or some other issues where people had their SSD's bricked?...don't know how anyone can call them the most reliable after that
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That was the firmware update to add Trim support. The firmware update package was yanked shortly after and came out properly a bit later. All the new drives have Trim enabled.
 
Another vote for Intel. I've had my g2 for almost an year and it is still running great! As others have said, I heard that ocz isn't bad at all too.
 
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