faster better cheaper pick any 2
SSD means faster is already chosen for you.

faster and cheaper get an OCZ, with the latest firmware they seem to=20
have stopped blue screening and general flakyness at least.
faster and better, get an intel, they have about the same failure rate=20
as regular rotating media it seems

don't RAID your SSD's, TRIM commands won't go through the raid=20
controller so it'll start to suck loads for writes pretty quickly


On 06/06/12 03:39, V G wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for an SSD for my desktop computer. I hope someone here who h=
as
> some experience with SSDs can point me to some good products. I bought a
> 30GB AData SSD about 15 months ago and it failed inexplicably after 6
> months of normal use. Will not buy AData again; I knew what I was getting
> into, but took the risk anyway.
>
> Requirements:
>
> - Decent quality from a respectable brand. I don't want it failing on me =
a
>   few months down the line.
> - Reasonable price. Doesn't have to be the cheapest, but I'm a student, s=
o
> I'd rather not empty my bank account.
> - Size: at least ~60GB, 128GB would be good too.
> - Has some kind of a warranty (~1 to 3 years?) so if it fails under norma=
l
> use, I can get it replaced without jumping through hoops.
> - Must be SATA 3 (unless someone can tell me why SATA 2 is good enough, b=
ut
> modern SSDs have higher than 3Gbps performance and SATA 3 offers 6Gbps).
> -- Note: I'm looking to buy a PCI-E 2 (or 3) SATA 3 4-port hardware RAID
> controller and another SSD of similar size a few months after I buy this
> one so I can stick them in a RAID 0 configuration.

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