New SSD - Samsung, Intel or Crucial

[directhex]

If you really really really care about your data, buy Intel. They're the only drives with a proven track record of doing the right thing in worst-case scenarios. Consumer-level drives like the Crucial M4 are fine for a gaming PC, really fine for that - but if your livelihood hinges on whether or not your data is in a known good state, then it's a terrible choice.

[arthurleung]

Using a Crucial M4 for 6 months, so far so good. I've had bad experience with an Adata Sandforce mSATA SSD burned itself to death so no more Sandforce for me.

[jyfs]

Crucial M4 for me. The Samsung is just as good

[Attila the Bun]

I thought i might throw this into the mix...I've had my 256gb 830 for just over a week now and I love it, my main rig (AMD 965 BE) has always been a quick booter, mainly because I ensure that it only fires up the essentials, but with this SSD it's 10 seconds from first click to desktop. However, when I first tried to format it I used my i3 laptop and try as I might I couldn't get the SSD to format. It would go as far as loading the files but would then freeze when trying to run them. I have no idea what caused this but when I get around to installing the now formatted SSD in the laptop I will be interested to see if it still has problems.

[yefi]

That is what I thought, mainly from reading Anandtech's review. So I went ahead and bought the 120gb 520 (~£150 back in April), only to get repeated (but not repeatable) BSODs of the F4/9F variety, characteristic of the 'Sandforce Bug'.

Yeah, this is the nightmare scenario I could see happening to me and is why I opted for the 830. Considering they're also more expensive than the 830s atm, it's a no-brainer which to go for imho.

[phinix]

99% of users will recommend Crucial, I guess it is good choice.
I had Vertex 2E 60Gb before, then swapped with Crucial M4 128GB - haven't noticed big difference i speeds but it is fast drive. I guess at some point speeds between SSDs are not that noticeable as between them and HDDs.

[Samwood]

If you're talking about OCZ/ Sandforce based drives there then it's not even close to being sub 0.5%. It's closer to 3% if you take the figures from retailers : http://www.hardware.fr/articles/810-...omposants.html

Now 3% still doesn't sound much (although still too high), but when you consider that these drives can be no where near their MTBF, it's a worrying figure.

Where is your figure from?

All the figures in the world don't make drawing conclusions any easier though with all the firmware updates.

Unfortunately I cant remember exactly where my "sub-0.5%" figure came from. A review/article lost somewhere in my browsing history... (sorry)

99% of users will recommend Crucial, I guess it is good choice.
I had Vertex 2E 60Gb before, then swapped with Crucial M4 128GB - haven't noticed big difference i speeds but it is fast drive. I guess at some point speeds between SSDs are not that noticeable as between them and HDDs.

I think the Samsung just about edges the M4 for user recommendations, this thread being a good example of this.

Im surprised you didnt notice a difference between the Vertex 2E and the M4, the sequential read/write on the M4 is nearly double. Although, when compared to a HDD, theres less of a gap in 4K performance. So general application usage etc wont be massively boosted.