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HDD just died thinking about an SSD replecment
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09-07-2011 4:59pm#1
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You can get it from Komplett for a 8 euro more, but unlike Dabs they don't take 60 years to deliver, so I would go with them
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Why the curcial and not the ozc its cheaper and has TRIM. Am I missing something?
1) Crucial's SSDs use onboard garbage collection as well as utilising TRIM.
2) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/ocz_bsods_ongoing/
Add to that the large number of people suffering bricked drives that simply are not registered by the BIOS anymore, and that that's 60%+ of people with faulty drives. The OCZ drives use a Sanforce brand Controller. The particular one they use for their Vertex and Agility drives is, to put it in PG13 language, faulty and prone to bricking. To put it in non-PG13 language, it's ****ing **** and utter crap, causing BSOD if you are lucky and a bricking within a week if you are not.33 per cent of respondents on a forum poll are still faced with non-working drives. Another 20 per cent don't get BSODs but do experience freezes when the system hangs.
The Crucials on the other hand use a Marvell controller, one that's actually been tested (le gasp) and thorough research has not shown (for me anyway) any problems and if anything the M4 has been getting rave reviews about being 100% solid.
Yes, the speeds are no near OCZ's speeds, but thats because OCZ also fiddle the numbers with that, while Crucials are simply because of hardware limitations on the small SSD (see the larger SSDs, they have EPIC BBQ write speeds).
Most of what an SSD will do after installation is reads anyway, so 95mb/s is more than adequate.
3) It's blue. :pac:
4) The OCZ one is more expensive anyway, so pick up a Crucial from wherever you want (Dabs if you are feeling lucky). 0 -
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We read all that and it really turns us off OCZ but then we see this,
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/355?vs=352
Everything apart from 2GB sequential reads or writes the Agility 3 kills the M4 and so I am very tempted to try be in the 10% that have no problems
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We read all that and it really turns us off OCZ but then we see this,
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/355?vs=352
Everything apart from 2GB sequential reads or writes the Agility 3 kills the M4 and so I am very tempted to try be in the 10% that have no problems
The difference in real life use will be utterly negligible.0 -
1) Crucial's SSDs use onboard garbage collection as well as utilising TRIM.
2) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/ocz_bsods_ongoing/
Add to that the large number of people suffering bricked drives that simply are not registered by the BIOS anymore, and that that's 60%+ of people with faulty drives. The OCZ drives use a Sanforce brand Controller. The particular one they use for their Vertex and Agility drives is, to put it in PG13 language, faulty and prone to bricking. To put it in non-PG13 language, it's ****ing **** and utter crap, causing BSOD if you are lucky and a bricking within a week if you are not.
The Crucials on the other hand use a Marvell controller, one that's actually been tested (le gasp) and thorough research has not shown (for me anyway) any problems and if anything the M4 has been getting rave reviews about being 100% solid.
Yes, the speeds are no near OCZ's speeds, but thats because OCZ also fiddle the numbers with that, while Crucials are simply because of hardware limitations on the small SSD (see the larger SSDs, they have EPIC BBQ write speeds).
Most of what an SSD will do after installation is reads anyway, so 95mb/s is more than adequate.
3) It's blue. :pac:
4) The OCZ one is more expensive anyway, so pick up a Crucial from wherever you want (Dabs if you are feeling lucky).
Much appricated
The whole its blue thing has really sold it to me.
Seriously thought the drive is becoming the new home to my OS, While the replacement drive is being added to a all ready hefty FreeNAS set up. WD didn't belive me at first that a Server HDD would die in a consumer level machine
I will let you all know how it goes when its set up0
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