KVR Audio

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:16 am

For a laptop if it matters, and likely 512MB.

I am rather partial to Seagate.
What do we think of them?

Or should I go with a company that's been in the SSD game since day dot, ie SanDisk?

standalone · Post by **standalone** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:04 am

This is a year old but relevant anyway:

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... cleContent

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:12 am

standalone wrote:This is a year old but relevant anyway:

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... cleContent

Brilliant. Thank-you.

Reading through that now.

standalone · Post by **standalone** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:13 pm

And another one ... the one I was searching for in the first place. Damn tech sites, they all look alike.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/19193 ... yers-guide

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 6:07 am

If I'm reading correct, the evo 840 seems to be a good bang for buck. They just came out with a firmware revision for some drives that have slowed down.

Odd that smaller drives are not as fast. (GB wise)

Kaine · Post by **Kaine** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:37 am

I see the EVO 850 is due to arrive soon but still no ETA on physical stock landing (Fry's in the states put up a pre-order listing a few weeks back) or samples, so no idea how the handle at the moment. Given that the EVO 840 was fast enough to be up with the best, they remain a decent choice (well with firmware update) and you may even snag a bargain on clearance when the new units land.

The reason the smaller ones are slower is internal bandwidth. You have 1 data controller writing to all the memory chips on the board. On the 128GB units you might have 4 memory chips and on the 256GB units you might have 8 memory chips. The bottle neck is writing to the cells themselves so if the data is being spread across 8 chips it can write equally as fast to all of those chips as it can to just 4 of them, meaning that it can write twice as much in the same time frame, just spread across more storage space.

Think of it as RAID 0 with physical ram replacing a stack of drives.

standalone · Post by **standalone** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:51 am

I would probably buy this new one from Crucial:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac ... 467/review

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:56 am

standalone wrote:I would probably buy this new one from Crucial:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac ... 467/review

Reading that review now and stumbled across this worrying comment:

"SSD lifespan good, but again, not the best around"

What is the lifespan of an SSD? Is it short enough to be a concern?

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 4:02 pm

Mushy Mushy wrote:What is the lifespan of an SSD? Is it short enough to be a concern?

Nothing to worry about IMO, just a fight subject on forums.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/sams ... f-tlc-nand
scroll down to "SSD Lifetime Estimation"

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 4:07 pm

Zombie Queen wrote:
Mushy Mushy wrote:What is the lifespan of an SSD? Is it short enough to be a concern?
Nothing to worry about IMO, just a fight subject on forums.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/sams ... f-tlc-nand
scroll down to "SSD Lifetime Estimation"

Ha, I think you're right on that... 25 odd years will do me fine.

MadAnthony81 · Post by **MadAnthony81** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:47 am

Intel is a great way to go.

Intel ssd's are the fastest and most reliable home consumer ssd's on the market.

The 530 series is about 500/mbs fast.

The 530 series has improved reliability.

Intel ssd's are merely only about 10-40 dollars more and are the leaders of SSD's.

Tip. Sandisk is made to fail.

Same thing again with other SSD's.

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 2:40 pm

MadAnthony81 wrote:Intel is a great way to go.

Intel ssd's are the fastest and most reliable home consumer ssd's on the market.

The 530 series is about 500/mbs fast.

The 530 series has improved reliability.

Intel ssd's are merely only about 10-40 dollars more and are the leaders of SSD's.

Tip. Sandisk is made to fail.

Same thing again with other SSD's.

Yep I do think Intel will be the winner. Thanks for these comments.

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:51 am

So what do we think of the Intel 750 series?

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/400gb-i ... -230k-iops

I do hope Kaine chimes in because I will be ordering it from them.

Edit: not sure why that hyperlink has broken

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 10:38 am

All the big players like Samsung, Intel...

I would only stay away from OCZ (Vertex). I had two of them and both are not working anymore.

Cimbasso · Post by **Cimbasso** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 10:39 am

Samsung.

SSD brand recommendations.