I've had my eye on the Plextor too and it looks to be around the Samsung Pro level, or at least in the same league, but a fair whack cheaper so hard to say no!
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I've had my eye on the Plextor too and it looks to be around the Samsung Pro level, or at least in the same league, but a fair whack cheaper so hard to say no!
The main points that stand out is the excellent garbage collection, they it named TrueSpeed and it seems to do a pretty good job at it too. And as you pointed out, such an excellent price :P
Just awaiting details from Scan, had lots of issues paying through PayPal with them so I now have multiple duplicate orders :(
I managed to get a Samsung 830 for a good deal.
From what I can see, it\'s almost got the 840 speeds.
I have a Crucial M4 as well, which I love... But once in a while it just doesn\'t get detected in BIOS, which is quite annoying.
Other than that, it\'s been amazing and pretty cheap
You have the latest firmware for the Crucial M4 and the latest BIOS for the MoBo? I had M4 for a while and was brilliant...But congratulation on the 830.
always seems to be good offers on the Samsung 840s currently the basic 120g seems to be on offer around £70 in places and the 250G version on at around £120 seems good value.
Just to add balance to that both Crucial M4's I have dealt with have failed. Both had the 5000 hours bug so required a firmware update and a few months later, one completely irrecoverably failed. Less than 1 month outside its warranty. The 3 Kingston SSD's I have had are the oldest and are all working fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimborae
These days I would only consider Sandisk after checking which models have no sandforce controller and they are a large OEM supplier and Samsung. These write concerns are massively overblown.
Only with worst case scenario writes (i.e. 100% 4k random writes which never happens) far in excess of what anyone that isn't specifically trying to wear out the drive would do could make a drive wear out within 3-5 years.
Secondly, should the drive wear out prematurely, by the time that happens you'll be able to get one either of the same capacity for peanuts or with many times more capacity for the same price.
Update:
My Plextor M5S came yesterday, got it up and running within 20 minutes with mostly everything I need installed.
Games next. Unfortunately a Samsung SpinPoint F3 I bought months ago ready for my SSD was DOA, so awaiting response from the person I bought it off. HOWEVER that said it is a massive improvement, everything just works smoothly and very quick. Write speeds are improved significantly and read speeds, well, that's blown my mind. Especially on bootup and shutdown, it takes seconds.
All in all I am very glad I bought this SSD, thanks to everyone for picking the best choice.
A bonus, it comes with a free 1-computer registration for Acronis True Image Personal ;) great deal.
Good for you, thanks for the feedback. Any preliminary tests and by any chance a source of your choice to buy the SSD from including the price? Just for future reference ;-)
I shopped around and found SCAN to be the cheapest to buy from.
Unfortunately Acronis True Image isn't a full edition :( it has only has the odd backup which can be done via Windows backup, so I am not bothering with that.
However the SSD doesn't come with any screws or adapter, just the SSD, but for the price its well worth it I think. The speeds are a massive improvement from using it and from benchmarking it.
To get idea of the speeds:
Seq - 473.3 read. 211.9 Write.
512K - 357.5 read. 190.3 write.
4K - 23.51 read. 44.34 write.
4K QD32 - 200.5 read. 161.2 write.
Much better than my Seagate HDD (phew):
Seq - 135R/126.2W
512K - 49.92R/70.84W
4K - 0.6R/1.4W
4K QD32 - 1.5R/1.4W
The DOA drive has the click of death, it was a brand new drive from a seller. Unrecognised by BIOS, failing to power on and when it does power on it clicks which indicates it isn't picking up the information. If the seller doesn't get back in touch I may as well throw it out.
There's been a lot said about the performance of the 120 GB Samsung 840 tanking after a while and taking much longer to recover it's performance. The 250 GB Samsung 840 is a much better bet and not that much pricier really.
i would say Samsung!
I would say he already got the Plextor M5S (Crucial M4 in disguise) and karl751 is just digging up old threads and spamming useless crap, possibly for free scan shipping or something (total post count).
19 useless posts in less than an hour. Always 1-liners. None of them really useful.
Sorry I didn't realise it was an old thread. Also thought some of my advice might be helpful but obviously not Hey. It's nice to see the way you welcome new members!
Bambooz got a point, even if slightly.
20 posts in such a short amount of time and usually very short seems suspicious. But hey, it is according to the rules.
The Plextor is a nice drive, got it recently in a Haswell (upgrade from C2Duo 2Ghz so it was actually worth it).
Fast as any SSD as far I can tell without benchmarks.
I had 2 Crucial M4 SSd drives fail in 6 months! One -a 125GB drive- lasted only 5 weeks. It's replacement a 256Gb failed within 5 months. replaced them with Seagate "spinners" . Amazon gave me a complete refund and also took back another 256 Gb M4 as I just don't trust them.
That's unlucky...