I’ve been thinking of getting a solid state drive for myself on my birthday in November. I’m less concerned about getting the absolute fastest one (to go from a regular hard disk to even a low-performance SSD is a huge quantum leap) than reliability-- I want it to last a few years.
I know the Macbooks use Samsung SSDs but I’m not sure if those are available in retail channels. I’ve heard good things about Intel drives. Does anyone have any recommendations? TIA… !
Hi
My preference has been for OCZ, performance is good for me and the
price is good.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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I bought a Kingston HyperX, and have been very happy with it. What size and price range are you looking for?
Wrath: I’d like to spend no more than about $300. I’ll be dual-booting so it’d need to be at least ~240GB.
Malcolm: I’d read horror stories about most of OCZ’s stuff and poor quality control, but glowing reviews of the Vertex 4 that praised its speed. Again my question is though, is it reliable? Their prices are great, for sure.
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Don’t think I’ve run the one I’ve got for long enough, no errors at all
on it via smartctl. My current one is an Agility 3, works fine for me,
it doesn’t get written to much, I used a SHDC card for my buildroot
when building packages.
It’s sitting in the parts draw to go into the desktop soon, from memory
it’s usage was around 300GB’s. I’m waiting for a Vertex 4 128GB device
for this notebook as 60 was just a little bit light for me.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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The more I think about it, the more I can’t make up my mind. I’m leaning towards Intel and their 520 series, but the prices are high. Still, I’d pay that if I had a drive that’d last like a spinner would. On the other hand, am I screwing up by buying one of those when a cheaper & larger capacity Vertex 4 drive (which also has a 5-year warranty) would serve as well? Decisions, decisions…
Thanks guys 
BTW Malcolm, check spamazon (or your favorite online retailer). I saw some Vert 4 128 GB drives there.
Come to think of it, I could go with two smaller-capacity drives (one for Linux and Winblows)…
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Yup, those were the ones I was looking at, just a 128GB one is plenty
for me. Don’t run windows 
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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