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Answer» thinkin of gettin an SSD for my boot drive but a friend said they crash a lot and are not that reliable is this true? which ones are the most reliable?Don't listen to your friend. Crucial, OCZ and Samsung are good makes.I own 2 OCZ's 60GB and a 90GB, and NO Problems!As with any technology, there were problems when first produced. The last year or so has placed SSD's on par with traditional hard drive reliability, if not surpassing the reliability of platter-based hard drives. Size will continue to grow, and cost, as far as is known, will continue to reduce.Yeah, I've never had a problem with one failing either and I've had about 5 installed throughout several different systems. At this POINT I find the ADATA brand to be the best in terms of cost/QUALITY. Of course the OCZ's are superior, but if you're looking for something cheap that is still good quality, go with the ADATA.I have the OCZ Vertex 3 120GB and I love it. Never had an issue post instllation. Win 7 installed from a high quality usb stick in 5 mins, drivers DONE from the mobo CD in a few more and it was ready to go. Here where I work we have installed several in computers, we have had 2 out of over 150 installed fail within the warranty period this year. We have had 7 out of ~200 drives fail this year in warranty. As with any PC part it is always possible to receive a DOA product. This can be remedied with a return. The benefit to having SSDs as small as they are as you can easily keep an image of the drive on a 2TB HDD and still have plenty of room for data, and you can restore from the image if WINDOWS breaks.Some are flaky, some are not. Drives with Sandforce controllers (most OCZs, newer Intels, Sandisks, Adata, most Corsairs) are less reliable then others and do not meet their advertised specifications in the real world. Personally, I would only buy a Samsung or Crucial drive out of the drives available. Happily, they're also the fastest real-world drives, and don't carry much of a premium over their competitors.I was under the impression OCZ dumped the Sandforce controllers early on because of issues...Found It...You're quite correct, a mistake on my part. The OCZ 4 series drives don't use Sandforce controllers, no, and from what I've heard the reliability seems to have improved. I think I have just been discounting OCZ drives entirely for so long due to their all-SF lineup that I forgot they'd changed for their new drives, so I do apologise. I would still personally only buy Samsung or Crucial though as I don't like dealing with OCZ CS.They also sold off their RAM division to concentrate solely on SSD HDD's... That's a move someone who WANTS to be the Industry leader would make...Mhm, I was glad when they did that, meant I didn't have to deal with OCZ Gold any longer *shudder*. They have also moved into the enterprise SSD sector a lot further than they used to, though I haven't had a chance to have a play with any of their recent enterprise drives. I'll watch and wait but it'd take a lot for me to change my mind about them as a company after the dealings I've had with them.Understood... I bought loads of their RAM over the years...only had 4 RMA's and they were expedited very quickly... Sorry to hear your experience was the opposite...I had no problems with their DDR and DDR2, it was their later DDR3 that seemed to go to pot, nothing but trouble for me. I think it very much depends where in the world you are, from what I can gather the RMA experience is much better over in the US than it is in Europe. The only products I had to return personally, I returned through my old workplace which went very smoothly, and indeed their returns to OCZ seemed fine. It was more their business practices and reps that soured me on OCZ, that and the Sandforce debacle. |
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