Good SSD cards?

Currently running Crucial 128GB, but TBH I dislike the small space so I am thinking of upgrading. I don't want to spend over $300 so the 500+GB are probably out, but looking for something with a lot of quality and some decent space.

 

The 840 pro is a big step up in speed from the 830 series and Id recommend that too. I have only once heard anything bad about the quality of Samsung SSD's and that is with the newest 840 series. However that one bad thing was a bug in pre-release firmware only and it has supposedly been fixed. The only other drives I ever recommend are Intel, but the prices on those make them not worth it usually. Im looking to get a couple Samsung 840 pro drives during this next year myself.

 

Toms Hardware recommends this one but it is indeed a bit new
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227916

Suppoesdly it is 16 points higher in performance than the Samsung.

 

Personally I would never use an OCZ based drive again. Most people dont share my opinion on them though and prefer to blame Sandforce, but OCZ has problematic drives even before Sandforce chipsets and now we are back to Indilinx chipsets again. Too many unproven designs and no quality assurance testing. Besides, rumor is OCZ might be out of business soon so there goes your RMA chance if you have a problem. These rumors have been around for about a year now, but lately it has been much stronger:

and:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/26881..._an_investigation_into_the_company/index.html




I have owned 15 solid state drives, and every OCZ drive I have owned has failed. Granted, of those 15 only 4 were OCZ, but thats still a terrible record. You can look around the net for other people's similar experiences though.
Owned 9 Samsung based SSD's, and of those only 1 failed. But that one failure was from a drive also made by OCZ in their single product line that used a Samsung chipset. No other actual Samsung drives have failed on me in the past 3 years.


If you want to be more cautious, you could go for an 830 series since it has been proven already. Although I suspect the 840 pro's will also be perfectly fine. Samsung has primarily sold to OEM's rather than consumers so their drives have to be perfect.

 

Alrighty then. I'll do that. When is the best time to buy? Cyber Monday and Black Friday have past. Should I wait out the holidays? Does it matter? Thanks again for all the help guys.

 

Id think the best time to buy just passed :/ The price of SSD's is always falling and next year this time that $270 drive from now will probably cost $230 for the new version. I would guess that since all the new drives are just coming out, and special sales are now over, waiting a couple months will not do you any good. The only thing you may get lucky on is some day after Christmas sale that might happen. That isnt too long of a wait so if one doesnt pop up then it isnt like you are holding out too long.

 

Raid0 has a high failure and low capacity to recover lost files. If I was going to hit 500GB I could just save time and money and buy the 500GB version for what $512?

 

the nice thing about RAID0 with solid state drives is that is provides near linear scaling in performance, and the flash based storage is far more stable. Using solid state drives would be just about perfect for RAID0 is it werent for the controller problems. That is where most failures come from and the trick to getting a reliable raid is finding a SSD that is actually reliable in the long term. Thankfully Samsung, and Intel for the most part, have reliable SSD's. I still prefer one big drive though, even if it is a bit less performance than two in RAID0. I need every SATA port I can get and using two just for extra performance is not in the cards for me.