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How to Buy / Properly use an SSD (pg. 3)
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| Looney4Clooney |
i put 2 SSDs in my gilfriends laptop. She did not notice.
regarding OCZ, i have a few libraries i use pretty often and although I'm assuming they will fail and have backup ups ready, they haven't. I do find my computer room needs less cooling with all SSD drives. 2 mac pros, 12 SSD drives. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
2 mac pros, 12 SSD drives. |
once day... one day....
cant bloody wait |
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| Looney4Clooney |
for those that are replacing their drive, you can change the UUID on the new one so that all your programs work ie Elicenser and any other form of protection that is tied to a disk.
http://blog.coriolis.ch/2012/08/15/...ith-superduper/
You need a certain file from the superduper app which you can get to by unpacking it. Well worth it especially for hot swap backups. |
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| DigiNut |
I think the Samsung 840 was a good choice. They make their own controllers. We use Samsungs at work and those drives get a lot of read/write action and there's only the occasional BSOD (usually right after Patch Tuesday for some strange reason).
Intel used to be the best of the bunch with custom-built (and friggin' expensive) SLC controllers but now they're using the SandForce MLCs. You know, the same SandForce that made the controllers that crashed all those OCZ Vertexes?
I'd be wary of the Intel 520, there are a whole lot of crash reports and it's essentially the same controller/firmware as the 320 series and the horrible "8 MB bug". Although Intel supposedly released a fix for that some time ago, so it may not be a current issue, but nevertheless - I don't really trust them now that they're using SandForce.
Right now I'm on a somewhat older Plextor P128-M, which uses a Marvell controller normally used in server hardware; I believe Crucial uses the same controller for their SSDs. What I really like about Plextor and Crucial is that they don't do all of the bull market segmenting that OCZ, Corsair etc. do and have a dozen different "families" of drives that you're supposed to choose from, it's more of a straight versioning system (newer = better). Even Intel is starting to get a little obnoxious with the flavours (520 vs. 525? seriously?).
So for future readers of this thread, if reliability is a concern at all - if you plan to use this as a boot drive as opposed to just holding samples/instruments/virtual memory on it - then the most trustworthy vendors right now are Crucial, Plextor, and Samsung. Everyone else (I think) is using those god-awful SandForce controllers. Even if you have a good backup system, a primary hard drive crash just isn't something you want to deal with more than once every few years.
Of course, if you don't care that much about losing what's on the drive or losing a few hours of productivity, then Intel or Corsair are probably better value (I still wouldn't go with OCZ due to their ty customer service). |
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| JEO |
Mine's a ..
240GB Corsair Force GT 2.5" SSD SandForce,
so I bet I'm ed. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| Selling my 160GB Intel SSD and looking for a 500 + GB SSD for my macbook pro, any suggestions? |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by Juan Paulino
Selling my 160GB Intel SSD and looking for a 500 + GB SSD for my macbook pro, any suggestions? |
i bought the samsung 840 pro 512, seems to be the top of the line right now, and i know u like that :)
installing it tomorrow |
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| Juan Paulino |
| quote: | Originally posted by Allied Nations
i bought the samsung 840 pro 512, seems to be the top of the line right now, and i know u like that :)
installing it tomorrow |
Yeah i did a search prior to the post and i found out that it is top of the line :D
By the way, do you know that it will work with my early 2011 Quad 2.2ghz Core i7 15 Inch? |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| Nobody is going to buy a used hardrive. I must have bout 8 128 ssd around, 12 2tb drives as well. They have no value unless sold with say a mac pro. I usually ask eveyone I know if they need drives. |
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| ravan |
| quote: | Originally posted by junkproject
Go with intel or samsung. Stay away from ocz. |
wise words.. i had two ocz drives die on me. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
Nobody is going to buy a used hardrive. I must have bout 8 128 ssd around, 12 2tb drives as well. They have no value unless sold with say a mac pro. I usually ask eveyone I know if they need drives. |
i might take one of those 128s off you for my OS when u come up... then use my new 512 gb for data in place of the super drive
price? |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| can you pay me in drugs. I have some intels as well. |
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