SSD - brand ?

50Twuncle

Is there anything to choose between SSD brands - Crucial, Sandisk, Kingston, Toshiba or WD ?
In terms of reliability - this is for a laptop ...... so I am assuming that all are compatible (come with necessary adapters)

forgotmyname

Not INTEL.

What sort of adapters? Occasionally you get a laptop with an oddball connector and no it wont come with adapters for that. If standard SATA then the drive thickness maybe an issue, you may need yo add packing/spacers to get it to sit level.

neilmcl

My personal preference is the Samsung EVO drives.

50Twuncle

I was thinking of a 750Gb MX300 Crucial - but now am unsure - they don't appear that fast http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Crucial-MX300-750GB/Rating/3644

neilmcl

What are you going to be using it for?

50Twuncle

neilmcl wrote: »

What are you going to be using it for?

Sorry - in an Asus X75VC laptop (i5/8Gb)
I do a lot of video work - using Handbrake for example....

ARandomMiser

I have had both Crucial and Samsung and never had a problem with either.

Zandoni

50Twuncle wrote: »

I was thinking of a 750Gb MX300 Crucial - but now am unsure - they don't appear that fast http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Crucial-MX300-750GB/Rating/3644

In use they are all amazingly fast compared to a mechanical.

Stoke

forgotmyname wrote: »

Not INTEL.

What sort of adapters? Occasionally you get a laptop with an oddball connector and no it wont come with adapters for that. If standard SATA then the drive thickness maybe an issue, you may need yo add packing/spacers to get it to sit level.

out of curiosity, what's wrong with Intel?

I've got a Kingston and a Crucial. Seems very little in it from what I've used so far.

Mr_Toad

I have to say that I'm rather sceptical about the performance tests/reviews when it comes to home use at least.

I have several SSD drives including a OCZ 250GB, the first one I bought, a 500GB Crucial MX and a 500GB Samsung Evo.

These three drive are in removable caddies, they all have the same version of Oracle Enterprise Linux installed and used for various tasks. Depending what I'm doing I'll pick one and plug it into my Linux box as the boot drive.

As a matter personal interest I've done my own rudimentary real life performance tests on all of them including booting to the desktop, encoding the same video files, converting audio files from CD to mp3 and a whole load of Oracle & SQLite database stuff running against the same test databases on the SSD.

As far as I can tell there's hardly any appreciable difference in performance when timed using the stop watch on my phone, not fantastically accurate but good enough for me.....

I also have a 500GB SSD in the Macbook Pro I'm using now and I think it's a Crucial but I'd have to take the back off to check. Whatever it is it's loads faster than the 500GB Seagate that came out.

i've had no issues with any of them.

Cisco001

Crucial MX300 is good value.