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Looking for affordable yet good SSD

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lukart

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After soo many years of hearing my HDD loading windows, grab a coffee while waiting and even getting the coffee cold while I finaly pass the Windows login, I decided to make the move! About time right?

I'm on a budget, not really looking for super high performance SSD but one that feels still fast enough.
 
The ARC 100 is looking pretty good, price/spec wise. I didn't seen much feedback on this one,but maybe someone here can tell more about it..
 
l1amrob said:
The ARC 100 is looking pretty good, price/spec wise. I didn't seen much feedback on this one,but maybe someone here can tell more about it..
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I am a fan of OCZ SSDs since my 1st purchase of a refurbished Vertex 2 about 16 months ago. Since then, I also own a refurbished 120GB Agility 3.20, a refurbished 128GB Vector, 2 X 128GB refurbished Vertex 450, a 120GB Vertex 460, and now the 240GB ARC100 (among other brands of SSDs). All of them continue to function perfectly. So far, only the Agility 3.20 has some bad blocks with normal wear. The Vector (1st generation controllers always have some issues to work out.) has some quirks in its firmware till version 3.0 fixed almost all of them.
 
Aside from a sale or something, the current value😛erformance leader is the Crucial MX100; that is not to say there isn't other good ones out there like Samsung, SanDisk, Intel and the like. The closeouts (older tech) are the Crucial M500 and Intel 530, often on sale.

Personally, I wouldn't take an OCZ at this point... (and, yes, I have one) there are just potentially better choices at this point.
 
Charlie98 said:
Aside from a sale or something, the current value😛erformance leader is the Crucial MX100; that is not to say there isn't other good ones out there like Samsung, SanDisk, Intel and the like. The closeouts (older tech) are the Crucial M500 and Intel 530, often on sale.

Personally, I wouldn't take an OCZ at this point... (and, yes, I have one) there are just potentially better choices at this point.
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Isn't OCZ using Toshiba parts? Isn't it going to be more reliable?
 
ocer9999 said:
Isn't OCZ using Toshiba parts? Isn't it going to be more reliable?
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OCZ, before they went belly up, switched to Indilinx controllers (actually bought Indilinx) trying to shed themselves of the bad rap they got with Sandforce controllers, particularly with the Vertex. Now that Toshiba is in charge, I would expect better things from them, but, honestly, I'm not going to waste my time trying a new brand of drive when I have before me known quantities like Crucial and Intel.
 
My OCZ Vertex Plus R2 SSDs have been very reliable thus far. They use the Barefoot 2 controller. I don't own one yet (mostly because of the price premium), but I look forward to trying out the Barefoot 3 controller. It's supposed to have excellent performance consistency.
 
Intel ssd's are solid units. I stay away from adata, ocz and since I just went through a horrible rma process with Samsung I'm not in a hurry to buy anymore of their ssd's.
 
I think that the three drives to choose from, per the article that just went up on the main page on this, are the Sandisk Ultra II, the Crucial MX 100 and the OCZ Arc. I personally am using the a 480 GB Sandisk Ultra II and so far it has worked perfectly. It benches somewhat faster than the MX100, uses less power than the OCZ Arc, but some people won't like that it uses 19 nm TLC flash (vs. 19 nm MLC in the Arc 100 and 16 nm MLC in the MX 100). I think that all three drives are solid units. Intel has also been mentioned in this thread, but the 730 is really there only drive of note and it has a price premium.
 
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I think that the three drives to choose from, per the article that just went up on the main page on this, are the Sandisk Ultra II, the Crucial MX 100 and the OCZ Arc. I personally am using the a 480 GB Sandisk Ultra II and so far it has worked perfectly. It benches somewhat faster than the MX100, uses less power than the OCZ Arc, but some people won't like that it uses 19 nm TLC flash (vs. 19 nm MLC in the Arc 100 and 16 nm MLC in the MX 100). I think that all three drives are solid units. Intel has also been mentioned in this thread, but the 730 is really there only drive of note and it has a price premium.
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Didn't find many round-up reviews, but from Newegg it seems that all three you've listed are strong contenders.

Crucial MX 100 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-820-_-Product

OCZ ARC - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

Sandisk Ultra II - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-011-_-Product
 
dat crucial looks pretty good.
As for OCZ..bash all you want..
I got 2 when they were new..they failed..
but OCZ RMA'd...and I've been rocking the replacements ever since..2-3 years?
 
The Crucial MX100 is a good SSD and very reasonably priced.

I've had two OCZ drives; one that quickly failed and it's replacement from OCZ that failed even quicker. OCZ drives suck and so does their customer service. Wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole, especially when there are so many quality SSD's at great prices available.

Whatever happened to all the OCZ shills that used to hang out on these forums?
 
schmuckley said:
dat crucial looks pretty good.
As for OCZ..bash all you want..
I got 2 when they were new..they failed..
but OCZ RMA'd...and I've been rocking the replacements ever since..2-3 years?
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Since they got bought by Toshiba, I think their RMA should be much better. Even the new ARC 100 seems to be getting them back in the game I think.
 
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