[Cialug] ssd drives (again)

[Nathan C. Smith]

I have used around a dozen Intel SSDs of several different models in appliances, utility servers, and laptops and desktops.  They have been very reliable.  I think the oldest may be under four years old.  Out of these so far I have had issues with a Cherryville on a Windows machine, I'm not sure yet if the SSD is at fault or there is a virus or Trojan involved.  I've had such good luck with the Intels I won't use anything else, though the Samsung SSDs have me curious.  My firm uses Lenovo laptops (around 20 ) which have some kind of Toshiba flash drives in them.  They have been reliable so far too, but seem to have slowed with age (blame Windows?) they are still under 3 years old.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Scott Yates
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 5:25 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] ssd drives (again)

I
 
have first-hand experience with both Crucial, and Intel SSD drives.  Early Crucial M4's proved to have issues that required firmware to address, and caused BSOD issues even after latest firmware was applied.

The Intel SSD's I am running on the other hand, have been both blazing fast and extremely reliable for me, while being more expensive.



On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:

> The OCZ 2- and 3-series SSDs were notorious for dying on people.  The 
> Vertex 4s and the new Vector SSDs have a much better reputation.
>
> The Crucial M4 SSDs and the Samsung 830 SSDs have proven themselves 
> extremely reliable among performance enthusiasts.  The Crucials use 
> [one of] the wildly popular Sandforce controller, have decent 
> performance, and are inexpensive.  The Samsungs are unique among SSDs 
> in that Samsung makes the flash, the controller, and writes the 
> firmware themselves.  The Samsung
> 840 and 840 Pro series are newer, but they are expected to be 
> similarly reliable.  I don't think I've ever seen anything about the 
> Intel SSDs other than the fact that they are reliable.  They have 
> always been too expensive for me to take them into consideration.
>
> Keep in mind this is just a regurgitation of many facts and/or 
> opinions read on several forums (fora?), including Tom's Hardware and Overclock.net.
>  I don't have any hands-on experience with any of these SSDs.
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
> Sent from my ASUS Transformer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] ssd drives (again)
>
> Y
> es, if you want reliable, go with Intel or Samsung for SSD.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Justin Richeson 
> <neomatrixjr at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I can't give any personal experience but when I was looking for my 
> > SSD
> back
> > in October going over all the reviews the general feeling I got was 
> > OCZ's were fairly unreliable.
> >
> > YMMV
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone using  a OCZ Technology 256GB Vertex 4 Series SATA 6.0 GB/s
> > 2.5-Inch
> > > (SSD) in a light duty mysql server?   I've been currently using a
> patriot
> > > pyro 120gb in an older server (dell 2940 iirc) that has a sata ii
> > interface
> > > and I was considering building something newer that uses sata III 
> > > with
> > the
> > > OCZ drive.
> > >
> > > My question is: If you have been using one of these drives, has it 
> > > been dependable?
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