Good, bad, indifferent?

http://www.dabs.com/products/sandisk-120gb-extreme-sata-6gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-80C0.html

Keep meaning to get one and pop it in one of the laptops, to give it a refresh.

Size on this one would be fine, just thinking whether this one is the best spec and performance. Would only be looking to spend around this amount for one.

Cheers,

Steve

I'm running a OCZ 60Gb cheap as chips SSD that I got for £25. Every review says it's **** and will die immediately.

I've had it for 6 months not a glitch and it's made a huge difference to an old HP laptop. Goes like a rocket now (is running Linux though, no TRIM on XP).

SSD is the single best upgrade you can make to any computer

It's the biggest bottle neck on any system

I'm converted. All my stuff is now solid state and everything is stored on conventional drives (6tb) on my hp micro server.

My macbook runs a SSD infact i'm thinking of going bigger as my podcasts are taking up space lol.

Thats a great price for that Sandisk.

The Sandisk one does not get the best of reviews, basically because its quiet slow. I would look at the old Samsung 830 Pro series, or its replacement the 840 pro. Not much more expensive, but get very good reviews.

it'll do just fine, best upgrade you can buy

Thanks guys

A slow SSD is still way faster than a spinning disk.

Now there are a lot of Sandisk SSDs, but the ones we have here in sweden are rebranded Intels. 320, I believe. Decent stuff, but i second the Samsung SSD's. Or Intels 330 series. Have a 180GB in my G580, unbelievably fast.

Avoid OCZ. I have one in my R61 and i'm on my third drive now. Thankfully their warranty is pretty decent so they always send me a new one, but still.

The Sandisk one does not get the best of reviews, basically because its quiet slow. I would look at the old Samsung 830 Pro series, or its replacement the 840 pro. Not much more expensive, but get very good reviews.

840 pro, not the 840 though, as the 840 uses TLC flash and it's a fairly new invention, so the wear rate isn't as clear as yet.

Now there are a lot of Sandisk SSDs, but the ones we have here in sweden are rebranded Intels. 320, I believe. Decent stuff, but i second the Samsung SSD's. Or Intels 330 series. Have a 180GB in my G580, unbelievably fast.Avoid OCZ. I have one in my R61 and i'm on my third drive now. Thankfully their warranty is pretty decent so they always send me a new one, but still.

The OCZ drives are fine as long as they're at the right price.

I had a dead one, but found there was a bug in the firmware that meant resets on the SATA bus were happening.New firmware and it's been running fine. My only advice would be don't store anything important on an SSD, without making sure you have other copies.

Edited 11 March, 201313 yr by cheezemonkhai

My OCZ is reporting itself as dead now. Only a few months old (just over 1TB of read and 1TB or write data in that time).

For now I've taken a VHD of the drive and am hoping it'll last the next two weeks until I've handed in my dissertation! Then I'll able to test out OCZs warranty department.

When I got the drives they were some of the ones caught up in the 25 to 35/36(?)nm changes, so they replaced them both with 'better' SATA3 Agility 3 drives, rather than a SATA2 Vertex.

Even if they're not great by SSD standards, as ASPMAN said, they're going to be better performance wise than a mechanical disk.

840 pro, not the 840 though, as the 840 uses TLC flash and it's a fairly new invention, so the wear rate isn't as clear as yet.

25nm chips were also "a new invention" not so long ago .

I propose Crucial M4 or Vertex 4. First one if you're short on money.

However as mentioned before - any SSD will be superior to any HDD.

Edited 12 March, 201313 yr by lmb

I fitted a crucial M4 ssd to my old laptop and it transformed it, but so did doubling the ram to 8Gb.

My current laptop flies. It had a 512gb ssd & 16gb ram.

Best 2 upgrades you can do to a computer.

I won't consider anything else now.

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