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Which cheap 120GB/240GB SSD?

Kingston SSD's SV300 use slower asynchronous nand. I would go with the Adata SP550. it is cheap and a lot faster then the Kingston,,,🙂
 
Out of a dozen ssds only my 2 Adata died for no apparent reason.
I try to avoid all tlc nand drives except Samsung 3D v nand drives.
I would spend a few bucks more on a better drive then a SV300.
 
I might never use it, but I don't want to screw around with bootable Acronis images and stuff. I have my Win7 image cloned to a SATA hard drive, but if not too costly, I like the idea of backing up directly to a SSD drive (for instant swap).

What's a good common value ?
 
GoodEnough said:
I ordered the Adata SP550 for $60.
Just going to use it as a clone backup drive.
Thanks.
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SSDs are meant to be used, not written to once and then stored. Given the issues with data retention and especially TLC SSDs, you would have been much better off getting a HDD if this is for cold storage.
 
A couple of TLC cheapies that have my eye are SanDisk Ultra II and Silicon Power S55. The Adata should serve you well though :thumbsup:
 
I cloned my Win7 image onto the new Adata 240GB using Acronis True Image 11.
I kept the Adata as my live SSD, and retired the PNY 240GB as an unplugged backup.

I will use this thread as a timestamp to know when to swap out the SSD.
I think I will just reclone every 2 years, and treat SSD's as disposable.
$60 every 2 years is $30 a year to avoid a headache. Worth it.
 
I use Ultra II's from Sandisk and ARC 100's from OCZ, great drives, snappy with low latency, i avoid anything with Sandforce, Phison and Silicon Image inside.
 
The Intel 520 / 330 240gb SSDs are pretty battle-proven and are a dime a dozen for ~$50-ish on eBay. Used, yes, but 25nm so cycles should not be a problem.
 
hojnikb said:
Never heard of silicon image before.
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Probably meant Silicon Motion but Silicon Image manufactures (or manufactured?) chipsets as well though I don't believe they have created a NAND controller. They were the single most used SATA chipsets during the transition from PATA before southbridge chipsets had SATA integrated. Slow as heck back then being that their 150MB/sec theoretical transfer rate was held back by the PCI bus they ran on so there was a ruckus over whether U-DMA2 PATA was faster than those PCI-constrained SATA controllers. SATA had a fairly rough beginning but those sexy tiny cables won out 😀
 
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