Monitor & SSD

Hi All,

I just bought this and it failed after a few days so it's going back. I saw it as a cheap enough primary drive, was this a bad purchase and should I get a direct replacement?

http://www.dabs.ie/products/corsair-memory-60gb-nova-series-2-sata-3gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-7K1H.html?refs=56350000-50113&src=3

Also - Monitors, Currently have a 22" that is around 5 years old, would like to get a larger better quality monitor as my current ACER was v cheap at the time and looks fairly bland at this stage.

My graphics card is a 560Ti TOP.

Appreciate any advice on both of the above.

Monotype

You can be just unlucky with SSDs but it's a good idea to back up anything on them. It looks like an OK drive to upgrade an older system that just supports SATA II. If you thought that you were going to carry it to a newer system sometime soon or get a SATA 6Gbps card, I'd get a faster SSD.

akazzz

Get the crucial m4 64gb if you're planning on purchasing a new good/reliable ssd.

Serephucus

Just a side note: If you simply copied the image of whatever drive you were replacing to the SSD, that could cause problems. Have you tried the SSD in another machine as a data drive?

I did a fresh install with the SSD - windows 7.

When it started causing problems I did a re-install which I was barely able to complete. The drive was non responsive after that, it would load up, but everything took minutes to load instead of seconds.

Serephucus

Have you no other machine you can try the SSD in?

I can possibly try it in the laptop... does it really matter though, its not working with the PC I got it for, and an older SSD works fine.

Serephucus

Never hurts to be thorough.