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SSD or not?

JayJapanB said:
Rocking two sandforce drives, Once for over two years,

Zero issues.
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That is just 1 data point and not statistically meaningful. Now if you had 2 hundred thousand SandForce SSDs and they all worked for 2 years I would be impressed..
 
drescherjm said:
That is just 1 data point and not statistically meaningful. Now if you had 2 hundred thousand SandForce SSDs and they all worked for 2 years I would be impressed..
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What if I do....

But in all seriousness, I'm not saying "Yay! Sandforce a OK" however people rarely bring up actually data when bagging Sandforce.

Intel are widely regarded for 'reliability and they are now using sandforce controllers.
And with OCZ, people seem to think they will never be able to get their tech right, which is ridiculous. Use caution rather than frequently ungrounded blanket rules. If they seem to be on the right track with happy customers and reviews while at a good price point, why not? Grudges are just lazy and unproductive.

ps, rocking a nickle EK block for added rebellious badassary :p
 
cepa said:
I can't agree with OCZ bad reputation, got one vertex3 120gb in my laptop working for almost a year by now, no problems at all, only the performance seems to be a bit lower than it it was at the begining. I also have two vertex3 60gb in two workstations working 24/7 and also no problems at all. And beleive me I do use them heavily as a local storage for virtual machines and in software development (more writes than reads).

Regarding the topic, nowadays i would take at least 120gb, 256gb has a good capacity to price factor imho, but it depends on what you actually do, anyways as a "system disk" once you get it you won't go back to spindles ;)
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r00k said:
I will also disagree with the ocz bad rap. Ive used an ocz vertex 2 180gb 3.5" for a year and a half in a rig that gets heavy use and probably under a hundred hours total being powered down. Never a hiccup. Though i did have a 60 die on me, they sent a replacement stat.

Maybe i haven't used enough of them to feel like they're any more prone to problems than regular hard drives or other ssd's. I guess YMMV applies ..
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Between you two it looks like 5 ocz drives and one of those was a 60gb that died, did I read that right? 1 in 5 dead is a tiny sample size but not good either.

I have had dozens of ocz drives (I have ~600 users and almost all of them have an ssd of some sort now) and numerous dead ones. Of the five brands we have (intel, corsair, crucial, samsung and ocz) only the ocz drives have ever flat out died (8 of them). The M4's all had to have the firmware updated when they hit the 5200 hour bug but none of them have actually died. I still have 40gb x25-m's out there from when they were first released, most in raid0 arrays to keep up with windows bloat. Because of this thread, I went to the dead hard drive storage room and there are no SSD's other than the 8 ocz's.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Between you two it looks like 5 ocz drives and one of those was a 60gb that died, did I read that right? 1 in 5 dead is a tiny sample size but not good either.

I have had dozens of ocz drives (I have ~600 users and almost all of them have an ssd of some sort now) and numerous dead ones. Of the five brands we have (intel, corsair, crucial, samsung and ocz) only the ocz drives have ever flat out died (8 of them). The M4's all had to have the firmware updated when they hit the 5200 hour bug but none of them have actually died. I still have 40gb x25-m's out there from when they were first released, most in raid0 arrays to keep up with windows bloat. Because of this thread, I went to the dead hard drive storage room and there are no SSD's other than the 8 ocz's.
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Logical arguments will get you nowhere in an SSD thread.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Between you two it looks like 5 ocz drives and one of those was a 60gb that died, did I read that right? 1 in 5 dead is a tiny sample size but not good either.

I have had dozens of ocz drives (I have ~600 users and almost all of them have an ssd of some sort now) and numerous dead ones. Of the five brands we have (intel, corsair, crucial, samsung and ocz) only the ocz drives have ever flat out died (8 of them). The M4's all had to have the firmware updated when they hit the 5200 hour bug but none of them have actually died. I still have 40gb x25-m's out there from when they were first released, most in raid0 arrays to keep up with windows bloat. Because of this thread, I went to the dead hard drive storage room and there are no SSD's other than the 8 ocz's.
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i respect that. i can only relate my personal experiences here. i'm no shill for OCZ, in fact i've come to really prefer Corsair and Kingston. not that it matters much statistically, but i've put several ocz's out in the field and given a few to my employees around the same time i got mine, and haven't had any problems with them either.
 
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At least OCZ just ousted CEO Ryan Petersen. Maybe, if they hire a new CEO who manages to create a corporate culture of quality and honesty, maybe then OCZ will have decent products in a year or two.
 
Amusing anecdote:

I replaced a users desktop a couple weeks ago. She went from a 2.4ghz core2duo with 2gb of ram and a 128gb crucial M4 to a 3.4ghz quad i7 with 8gb of ram. I had upgraded her to the M4 last year to speed up her older machine until I could replace it. The plan was to move the M4 to her new machine but I was short on time so I left her with the 500gb WD black until I could go back later and reformat the M4. Other than the ssd, this was a big spec jump and should be speedier for the things she does (spss being the most demanding I think). I stopped by to ask her how everything was going and her response "this is a lot slower than my old computer, could I just have that one back?". -.- SPSS takes a lot longer to open as does everything in general, even just windows explorer, as expected.

This is a prime example of what an ssd can do in the real world. This woman knows nothing about computers. If I said SSD to her, she'd not have a clue what I was talking about. What she does know is that spss now takes 30 seconds to launch when it used to be in the blink of an eye.
 
Hagrid said:
I would go for 256gb at minimum, IMO.
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based on what ?

I have a samsung 830 128gig sdd with half the space used. I could easily put half a dozen games on it if I wanted.

I think the early ssd adopters are used to paying around the pricepoint the 256gig costs hence reccomending that size.
 
robo_bee said:
Get a ton of cheap RAM too and make a RAMDisk for all your temp files!
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I just set my temp file to 1 GB and leave it on the SSD. :shrug:

But you definitely won't hear me say "don't get tons of cheam RAM" :p

(see my thread here)
 
chrcoluk said:
based on what ?

I have a samsung 830 128gig sdd with half the space used. I could easily put half a dozen games on it if I wanted.

I think the early ssd adopters are used to paying around the pricepoint the 256gig costs hence reccomending that size.
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It all depends on what you want on it or have for programs. I just recently bought my SSD and I have to say the 128gb is too small.(for me) Sucks always making sure you dont go over, or not installing something because it takes too much space.
I dont want to worry about putting programs on the slow HD. The 256gb would of been perfect!!!!
 
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