I have a dilemma, what would you do?

[stylez777]

Firstly hello everyone first post on these forums.

So here is my dilemma. I purchased a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240gb SSD on sale and I received an e-mail today that it is out of stock and not expected to be back into stock until the end of the week. They place I purchased it from gave me 2 options:

Option A: Wait till end of week (or possibly longer if it doesn't come in) and have it shippe dot me overnight via their expense.

Option B: I can replace it with another SSD drive they have in stock at their expense I can choose The Samsung 830 256gb or Crosair Force GT 240gb.

What would you do?

 

[Jman13]

If it were me, I'd get the Samsung. But mainly because I'm more swayed by reliability than anything, and from all the things I've seen, Intel, Samsung and Crucial have tended to be near the top consistently in reliability. Not that Corsair is bad either. Frankly, most any SSD is likely to be more reliable than the average HDD.

I'd have to double check, but I think the Samsung might be a little quicker too.

 

[Jocelyn84]

If it were me, I'd get the Samsung. But mainly because I'm more swayed by reliability than anything, and from all the things I've seen, Intel, Samsung and Crucial have tended to be near the top consistently in reliability. Not that Corsair is bad either. Frankly, most any SSD is likely to be more reliable than the average HDD.

This. Option B and get the Samsung out of the two. Would have been nice if they offered you the Performance Pro instead of the Force GT 🙂

 

[Jman13]

Hmm...interesting. Looking at the limited failure rate data available, it can be a little hard to parse actually.

The most recent SSD reliability survey here: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/843-7/ssd.html
Shows Intel to be exceptionally reliable (0.1% failure!), with Corsair as a whole also extremely good (0.9%). Crucial follows at 2.9%, with OCZ at 4.2%.

However, they have some caveats. They mention that the vast majority of the Crucial failures were with the M225, with the rest having failure rates in the 1% range.

Also, the Corsair Force 80GB has a failure rate of 5.83%...but I have no idea if this translates to reduced reliability for the other Force models.

Unfortunately, that site doesn't have anything about Samsung.

 

[stylez777]

Thanks for the replies so far.

I originally chose the Mushikn Chronos Deluxe 240gb because it did get soem great reviews and also has the 32nm Toggle nand which from what I read was more durable than 25nm nand. I'm pretty sure as reviews go The Mushkin was a pretty reliable and fast drive.

The 830 is fast and reliable too, I haven't seen any reviews that put the 2 up against each other. I think I seen the 830 is 27nm toggle nand

Such a hard choice seeing as I can get a 830 for the same price as the Chronos Deluxe and that is a pretty decent steal and it is making me think if both were the same price at time of purchase which would I have chosen. ugh decisions!

 

[KingFatty]

I think the durability of 32nm vs 25nm nand is more of an academic/theoretical exercise, because for all practical purposes, you will never exhaust the durability of either based on a normal use pattern.

Are you reformatting and re-loading, or otherwise filling/wiping the drive repeatedly or somehow putting lots of data on it repetitively? If not, your drive will become obsolete and still work very well, long before it exhausts its durability.

I'd decide just based on market value, get the one that has a higher market value. At worst, use it a bit and resell it, then you can re-purchase the cheaper one later (including the possibility for some depreciation in new purchase price).

 

[greenhawk]

Hmm...interesting. Looking at the limited failure rate data available, it can be a little hard to parse actually.

That would be the return for replacement rates I suspect. The issue I have with that is a drive is not considered faulty if it causes blue screens from time to time (sandforce issue that is meant to be fixed but some people still report similar issues from what I have heard).

A quick check of that Muskin appears it is a sandforce based device. So the Force GT would be similar (same chip). The Samsung I would take (different controller) and so meant to be more reliable.

As another poster mentioned, if they had offered a Performance Pro or the Plextor (m4 based), I would have taken them instead as the Plextor does have the 32nm memory and the Performance Pro has some unlisted 3x nm memory (the review could not find a exact match for the part numbers when they pulled the Performance Pro apart IIRC).

 

[stylez777]

Again thank you for all the replies.

Seeing as my normal PC use is playing games, surfing the web and burning and watching movies. Sometimes I will use photoshop but nothing major touch up some photo's etc and I'll encode a video every now and again. I took the Samsung 830 256gb. I know benchmark wise it will come up a little slower in area's than the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe but as real world use goes I know I am not going to notice a difference especially seeing as it is my first SSD coming from a conventional HDD it's going to fly 🙂

Thanks for all the help! I appreciate it. (plus too I can be happy I got a $340 SSD for $279)

 

[iluvdeal]

Thanks for all the help! I appreciate it. (plus too I can be happy I got a $340 SSD for $279)

Wow, you lucked out. Never seen the Samsung 830 go that low. Where store did this for you?