SSD - brand ?

Stoke

Cisco001 wrote: »

Crucial MX300 is good value.

That's the one I have. Seems fine.

50Twuncle

Right Crucial MX300 does appear my best option
Only Crucial have stopped producing 750Gb versions (a nice compromise size - not too expensive either)
Leaving a large gap between 525Gb and 1Tb
I know that I can purchase 750Gb ones from Amazon - but why would Crucial do this ?

Cisco001

50Twuncle wrote: »

Right Crucial MX300 does appear my best option
Only Crucial have stopped producing 750Gb versions (a nice compromise size - not too expensive either)
Leaving a large gap between 525Gb and 1Tb
I know that I can purchase 750Gb ones from Amazon - but why would Crucial do this ?

750GB firmware is not mature initially?
Not sure if that is the reason

50Twuncle

Mr_Toad wrote: »

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.

What about PNY ?

Stoke

50Twuncle wrote: »

What about PNY ?

I once used a PNY in my dashcam. Was fine, lasted many years in fact.

Mr_Toad

50Twuncle wrote: »

What about PNY ?

I've never used a PNY SSD but I've had other PNY branded stuff over the years including what was their cheaper version of a high end gaming graphics card and it was fine.

A friend was a bit sniffy about anything not branded ATi Radeon or Nvidia at the time but even he could fault it when he saw it running.

On that basis I'd be happy to try one.

seatbeltnoob

I've upgraded quite a few relatives PCs and put the evo SSDs in without any fault.

With SSDs just go for reliability and endurance. The benchmark tests are silly, for practical uses you will never see any noticable difference from 1 brand of SSD to another.

The other brand I tried was a crucial m4 (very early SSD) which runs perfectly fine to this day. It did have 1 firmware fault with it which I managed to fix. Other than that worked brilliantly.

I wish I could dig up all the old threads on computing forums of SSD naysayers and remind them how wrong they were.

I've had SSD drives from 5+ years ago and still going strong (with 10% depreciation). Where as a mechanical drive this old would have started to make all sorts of groaning sounds which made you nervous about keeping your data on there.

50Twuncle

OK next question - HYBRID drives - are they any good ?
They have, say a 20Gb SSD sector - with the rest, conventional HDD technology - but what gets me - is what keeps the OS files on the SSD sector ?
ie) Are they write protectable or something ?

iamlucky18

I might be wrong, but I believe the system manages it as it's a hybrid drive. So you're most used files etc. get moved to the SSD portion to improve performance.

50Twuncle

It seems that the SSD sector is limited to 8Gb even on the most expensive hybrids - so I will forget them..