About to buy a SSD

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Originally Posted By: 3800Series


You are correct, it's been a while since I've dealt with sata 2 and was thinking it had a maximum read/write of 200. I know a 7200rpm WD Blue is rated for 140-150 read. I just looked into it tho and it appears it's a transfer limit of 300. That's about twice as fast as a HD I was thinking at best it would only be a 25% boost in speed.


Raw transfer rate is actually one of the last reasons to go SSD.

SSD has far superior latency and better durability.

Most of the slowness of spinny disks is NOT in the raw transfer speeds, it's in waiting for the drive heads to get where they need to be. SSD completely takes that out of the equation.

Every single machine that can run a modern operating system will benefit from having an SSD. Some more than others, but there's almost no circumstance where I'd take a spinny drive over an SSD. The only one is bulk storage.

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Samsung EVO 850 or 850 PRO.

This looks like a winner to me.

Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E250B/AM)
$89.99

On Amazon with prime.

Thanks every one.

 

[901Memphis]

Yep the 850 Evo is what I recommend for most every day users. One thing often overlooked is upgrading an older system might be limiting your SSDs speed, since there are limits on sata speeds depending on which revision you have. Sata 1 cannot utilize all of the bandwidth of the new drives

Sata 2 is limited to about 300 MBS which is still faster than any mechanical drive even though some SSDs are twice that speed on sata 3 boards with the right chipset.

 

[asand1]

I'm running a cheap Silicon Power SSD and have no complaints at all.

 

[Huie83]

I've had bad luck (failures within a year or two) with anything but Samsung and Intel drives. I've had 2 Samsung drives as well as 2 Intel drives, no issues with either.


Any other SSD I've tried such as Crucial, AData, PNY etc have all been [censored].

 

[bmwjohn]

OK, I'm thinking 2 250 gig SSD's for Thinkpads (slightly thinner) possibly 512 gig, need them soon (Christmas gifts). best price, anyone? IIRC got some crucial 250g for $60 a little back. Thoughts?

 

[Rand]

I usually stick with samsung, intel, or crucial.. although I research exact model reliability.

I have a couple of the cheaper ones in use.. seem to be ok.. but if its 5$ or 10$ get a good brand name one.

 

[PandaBear]

Buy the one with the longest warranty.

Recently I went from the wireless industry back into the storage industry, and the veteran coworkers I worked with told me horror story mainly about NAND screening, algorithms, and firmware mistakes that are not caught until customers found them, and the only thing they could do at the time would be firmware update / warranty replacement.

Like others said, you will notice a lot when going from 12ms latency to 0 and 10MBps to 150MBps when going from mechanical drive to SSD. When you go from a slow SSD, with the same 0 latency, you won't notice much going from 150MBps to 450MBps.

If you are building a file server or fabric, then you are on a different budget and requirement.