SSD - brand ?

50Twuncle

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

To be fair, for most ordinary users a 240GB primary SSD with a secondary mechanical is perfectly fine.

I do that. I keep my OS and the most frequently used games on my primary OS. Then keep the data, movies, music, documents on a mechanical.

Most Laptops can only take a single drive though !!

Stoke

Nothing wrong with mechanical drives.

Cisco001

50Twuncle wrote: »

Most Laptops can only take a single drive though !!

depends.
Some higher end laptop can use m.2 SSD as boot drive
Or if it is a old laptop with optical drive, you can swap it to a caddy which hold 2nd drive.

forgotmyname

Stoke wrote: »

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.

INTEL SSD's had an issue where an incorrect shutdown could lose ALL your data. The drive would show as 8MB or 8GB with a 100% data loss.

Since then i wouldnt trust an INTEL drive.

One downside to an SSD, data loss is usually 100%.

seatbeltnoob

forgotmyname wrote: »

INTEL SSD's had an issue where an incorrect shutdown could lose ALL your data. The drive would show as 8MB or 8GB with a 100% data loss.

Since then i wouldnt trust an INTEL drive.

One downside to an SSD, data loss is usually 100%.

My crucial m4 (5 year old ssd) was the same. After a certain number of read-write ops it would fail. But could be fixed by flashing a new firmware on. Luckily it does not erase anything on the drive just writes a new BIOS in the drive controller.

The intel thing, how long ago was it? I googled but cant find the manufacture/release date on the drives affected. It seems several years ago - I think it could just be down to early SSD teethines issues whic are now fixed?

forgotmyname

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

My crucial m4 (5 year old ssd) was the same. After a certain number of read-write ops it would fail. But could be fixed by flashing a new firmware on. Luckily it does not erase anything on the drive just writes a new BIOS in the drive controller.

The intel thing, how long ago was it? I googled but cant find the manufacture/release date on the drives affected. It seems several years ago - I think it could just be down to early SSD teethines issues whic are now fixed?

Quite possibly all sorted now, but i have seen enough of them to think twice about buying that brand. With the INTEL ones all data was lost. No chance of recovery at all.

I have had a brand new 1TB standard drive fail also, it helpfully waited until i had moved all my pictures onto it before failing though. That was non recoverable also. Well i suppose you could at a cost. But it just meant time to reassemble old computers and drag the data back off them.
Some were RAID setups so you needed them in the correct order to get all the files intact.

These things so happen. Just a brand X that failed and enough to make me buy elsewhere for a while.

droopsnoot

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

To be fair, for most ordinary users a 240GB primary SSD with a secondary mechanical is perfectly fine.

I do that. I keep my OS and the most frequently used games on my primary OS. Then keep the data, movies, music, documents on a mechanical.

Indeed, and that arrangement would suit me too. But a quick look on eBuyer just for the cheapest shows a 240Gb SSD at roughly twice the price of a 500Gb HDD, so effectively four times the cost per Gb, and I was hoping it would be a bit closer by now.

forgotmyname

Get a pair of standard drives and RAID them?

I have a pair of 250GB 7200rpm drives and the SSD made very little if any performance increase.

A modern pair of 1TB drives will do what you require. Just make sure you backup elsewhere after doing your work, which you should be doing anyway.

50Twuncle

Ebay currently have 750Gb MX300 at £129.99
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Crucial-MX300-2-5-750GB-SATA-III-Solid-State-Drive/182371894183
What could go wrong with this purchase option ?
I have never bought from Ebay before !!

qsk

50Twuncle wrote: »

Ebay currently have 750Gb MX300 at £129.99
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Crucial-MX300-2-5-750GB-SATA-III-Solid-State-Drive/182371894183
What could go wrong with this purchase option ?
I have never bought from Ebay before !!

When buying on eBay, you need to check other buyers' feedbacks, in particular, when problem happens. I myself would not risk £100 on this seller.