Help choose SSD

mrthanhnguyen · Jan 22, 2012

I plan to buy a 120gb SSD for my new rig, but I don't know which one is the most stability on the market. I don't want to get any BSOD or freeze. Thanks.

travva · Jan 22, 2012

I'm interested in this as well. I'm curious what the recommended brand is for speed too.

Lazzer408 · Jan 22, 2012

I've used the Intel x25m and their 320s without issues. I chose them for their reputation and because I've heard bad things about the RMA process for other companies. My friends Crucial SSD died in a few weeks and the RMA took FOREVER. The replacement died a few days later. 6 months went by and the 3rd drive is finally working. I've delt with Intel RMA (on a motherboard) and it was painless. I've never had a bad product from Intel. The board that was RMA'd was actually damaged from a liquid spill.

eidairaman1 · Jan 22, 2012

models with a high user rating.

mrthanhnguyen · Jan 23, 2012

between 120gb corsair force gt3 and 120gb ocz vertex 3, which one is better?

LiveOrDie · Jan 23, 2012

I run 2 120gb force 3s in raid and so far there performance is the same as when i 1st got them.

Homeless · Jan 23, 2012

If you want to have absolutely 0 headaches, I recommend you get a samsung 830, crucial m4, or any of the intel drives.

OOZMAN · Jan 23, 2012

I bought an Intel 320 over the faster and cheaper OCZ drives, simply for reliabilty. I don't want my OS drive crashing AT ALL, even if it only takes a little while to RMA it...

Either one you choose, if you're coming from a HDD, you'll be satisfied. The little bit of extra speed you might get from an OCZ or something isn't worth the risk IMO.

LAN_deRf_HA · Jan 23, 2012

This question usually ends the same each time. Crucial M4. Yeah it just had it's first major bug but it's already patched and every SSD should be updated as soon as you get it so that's irrelevant now. You get more usable space and the fastest real world performance and usually the best price to top it all. The 256 was at $340 a week ago on newegg. M4s go on sale more than any other SSD at newegg. The OCZ 128 GB petrol is on sale now, and in theory that should be comparable, but it hasn't really been out long enough to know it's reliability. I'd just wait for another M4 sale.

LiveOrDie · Jan 23, 2012

It doesn't matter who u ask the answer will be based on what they went with so i would look at some reviews.

Athlon2K15 · Jan 23, 2012

Corsair all the way dont mess around with OCZ drives that arent up to par

LiveOrDie · Jan 23, 2012

AthlonX2 said:
Corsair all the way dont mess around with OCZ drives that arent up to par

+1

Imhoteps · Jan 23, 2012

I`d look here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/buy-ssd-recommendation-value,review-32349-5.html
or http://www.thg.ru/storage/vibiraem_...1/vibiraem_luchshyi_ssd_december_2011-05.html

2nd link is in russian, but everything is understandable (1st level (уровень) is highest performance level etc.)

Lazzer408 · Jan 23, 2012

Lazzer408 said:
My friends Crucial SSD died in a few weeks and the RMA took FOREVER. The replacement died a few days later. 6 months went by and the 3rd drive is finally working.

Ok... Shit you not, Drive 3 just failed this morning. You now have my official opinion of Crucial SSDs. :banghead:

NEVER again will I own a Crucial SSD. All 3 of my Intel SSDs are stable.

OnePostWonder · Jan 24, 2012

Lazzer408 said:
Ok... Shit you not, Drive 3 just failed this morning. You now have my official opinion of Crucial SSDs. NEVER again will I own a Crucial SSD. All 3 of my Intel SSDs are stable.

I'm really surprised to hear this about Crucial as I've always known them to be reliable. I can't speak much to their RMA process as I've never dealt with it (though from what I gather from other places it is generally a non-issue, or at least it was at some point in time).

Crucial Technology holds an A+ rating from the BBB and also a 9.63/10 from ~3000 votes on ResellerRatings.

Your friend certainly is having terrible luck with those drives, but I'd ask if there is the possibility for an underlying issue. That said, on one PC I built for someone I had to RMA Corsair memory twice before I got a good pair (their RMA process was pretty painless).

*I actually went ahead and reread your posts. You stated that you will never again own a Crucial SSD, but wasn't it your friend who owned them? I'm only asking because I hate to see you hitting your head against a brick wall.

Lazzer408 · Jan 24, 2012

OnePostWonder said:
I'm really surprised to hear this about Crucial as I've always known them to be reliable. I can't speak much to their RMA process as I've never dealt with it (though from what I gather from other places it is generally a non-issue, or at least it was at some point in time).

Crucial Technology holds an A+ rating from the BBB and also a 9.63/10 from ~3000 votes on ResellerRatings.

Your friend certainly is having terrible luck with those drives, but I'd ask if there is the possibility for an underlying issue. That said, on one PC I built for someone I had to RMA Corsair memory twice before I got a good pair (their RMA process was pretty painless).

*I actually went ahead and reread your posts. You stated that you will never again own a Crucial SSD, but wasn't it your friend who owned them? I'm only asking because I hate to see you hitting your head against a brick wall.

I bought the drive from him months ago for my gf back when it worked. It failed again in her rig. It's intermittent and likely a bad solder joint. I stuck it outside for awhile and managed to clone it to a spinner which is installed and working now.

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/M225-Ridiculously-high-failure-rate/td-p/42406

OnePostWonder · Jan 24, 2012

Lazzer408 said:
clone it to a spinner

This jargon is above my pay grade. Please enlighten me as to what this means (INB4 Google is your friend, for in this case it was not).

erixx · Jan 24, 2012

clone is "exact copy" and "spinner" is a circumventing device, a.k.a. disc, a.k.a hard disc drive.

OnePostWonder · Jan 25, 2012

erixx said:
clone is "exact copy" and "spinner" is a circumventing device, a.k.a. disc, a.k.a hard disc drive.

Ahh, okay. Definitely makes sense now. I was trying to think of some other colloquialisms when I wrote this, but my thinker wasn't helping any.

boomstik360 · Jan 25, 2012

Newegg has the samsung 128gb 830 series on sale in the desktop upgrade kit version for $190 shipped. Here's the promo code : EMCNJHF45

I will be getting two soon

Processor	Intel core i9 13900ks sp117 direct die
Motherboard	Asus Maximus Apex Z790
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Memory	2x24gb Gskill 8800c38
Video Card(s)	Asus RTX 4090 Strix
Storage	1TB Samsung 860Evo,2*2tb Samsung 970Evo Plus, 1tb Intel 660p nvme
Display(s)	Sammsung G7 32”
Case	Dynamic XL
Audio Device(s)	Creative Omni 5.1 usb sound card
Power Supply	Corsair AX1600i
Mouse	Model O-
Keyboard	Hyper X Alloy Origin Core

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Motherboard	MSI Gaming Edge Wifi x570
Cooling	Kraken Z73
Memory	32GB Dominator RGB
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Storage	Firecuda 520 2TB
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Case	h710i
Audio Device(s)	Arctis pro wireless
Power Supply	NZXT c1000
Mouse	Logitech g pro wireless
Keyboard	Logitech g915 tkl
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro
Benchmark Scores	pwning n00bs like you

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Motherboard	MSI z68ma-ed55
Cooling	Silentx Extreem 120mm
Memory	2x4gb XMS 7-8-7-20 1600
Video Card(s)	HD6870
Storage	2x128gb Kingston Hyper-X (Raid0), 2x750gb RE3 (RAID1), 2x750gb RE3 (RAID1)
Display(s)	Soyo 24", Gateway 22"
Case	Fractal Design Arc Mini 6x120mm fans.
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Zalman 750w
Software	Windows 7

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Processor	AMD FX 8350@ 5.0GHz
Motherboard	Asus TUF 990FX Sabertooth R2 2901 Bios
Cooling	Scythe Ashura, 2×BitFenix 230mm Spectre Pro LED (Blue,Green), 2x BitFenix 140mm Spectre Pro LED
Memory	16 GB Gskill Ripjaws X 2133 (2400 OC, 10-10-12-20-20, 1T, 1.65V)
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon 290 Sapphire Vapor-X
Storage	Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, WD Velociraptor 1TB
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Case	AeroCool Xpredator Evil Blue Edition
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs Sound Blaster ZxR
Power Supply	Seasonic 1250 XM2 Series (XP3)
Mouse	Roccat Kone XTD
Keyboard	Roccat Ryos MK Pro
Software	Windows 7 Pro 64

Processor	Intel core i9 13900ks sp117 direct die
Motherboard	Asus Maximus Apex Z790
Cooling	Custom loop 3*360 45mm thick+ 3 x mo-ra3 420 +Dual D5 pump and dual ddc pump
Memory	2x24gb Gskill 8800c38
Video Card(s)	Asus RTX 4090 Strix
Storage	1TB Samsung 860Evo,2*2tb Samsung 970Evo Plus, 1tb Intel 660p nvme
Display(s)	Sammsung G7 32”
Case	Dynamic XL
Audio Device(s)	Creative Omni 5.1 usb sound card
Power Supply	Corsair AX1600i
Mouse	Model O-
Keyboard	Hyper X Alloy Origin Core

Help choose SSD

mrthanhnguyen

travva

Lazzer408

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

mrthanhnguyen

LiveOrDie

Homeless

OOZMAN

New Member

LAN_deRf_HA

LiveOrDie

Athlon2K15

HyperVtX™

LiveOrDie

Imhoteps

Lazzer408

OnePostWonder

Lazzer408

OnePostWonder

erixx

OnePostWonder

boomstik360

Processor	Intel Core i9 10980XE @ 4.7Ghz 1.2v
Motherboard	ASUS Rampage VI Extreme Omega
Cooling	EK-Velocity D-RGB, EK-CoolStream PE 360, XSPC TX240 Ultrathin, EK X-RES 140 Revo D5 RGB PWM
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z RGB F4-3000C14D 64GB
Video Card(s)	Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC WC
Storage	M.2 990 Pro 1TB / 10TB WD RED Helium / 3x 860 2TB Evos
Display(s)	Samsung Odyssey G7 28"
Case	Corsair Obsidian 500D SE Modded
Power Supply	Cooler Master V Series 1300W
Software	Windows 11

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Motherboard	ASUS P8Z68-V Pro
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Memory	8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 1866mhz 9-9-9-24
Video Card(s)	HIS HD6950 2GB, 930/1500mhz stable. CFX with 6970 eventually
Storage	Intel 320 series 120GB SSD. 2.7TB generic HDD storage.
Display(s)	32" Sony Bravia LCD TV 1920x1080. Yeah baby!
Case	Blue Raidmax Raptor.
Audio Device(s)	Phonic 302+ 1394 interface, + 2x Behringer 9" 225W studio monitors. Cant buy better for under $600!
Power Supply	Corsair TX750W
Software	Dual boot: Win 7 Ultimate x64 SP1/Mac OSX Lion (not really used), Cubase 5 for DAW.
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Cooling	H110
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Video Card(s)	GTX 780 Ti
Storage	850 EVO 1TB, 2x 5TB Toshiba
Case	T81
Audio Device(s)	X-Fi Titanium HD
Power Supply	EVGA 850 T2 80+ TITANIUM
Software	Win10 64bit

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Motherboard	MSI Z590 Carbon EK X
Cooling	Custom Water
Memory	Team DDR4 4000MHz
Video Card(s)	ASUS TUF RTX 3080 OC
Storage	WD WN850 1TB
Display(s)	43" LG NanoCell 4K 120Hz
Power Supply	Asus Thor 1200w
Mouse	Asus Strix Evolve
Keyboard	Asus Strix Claymore

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