My love/hate relationship with SSDs

[Multibocks]

So I've about had it with SSDs. Yes they are fast, but it comes with a price: reliability. Of the 5 SSDs I have had all 5 have failed at some point in their life. These are not cheap walmart brands either. I've owned some of the fastest SSDs ever made and now I'm this ----> <---- close to ripping out the two I have and going back to disks. I bought the new agility 3s from OCZ when they first came out in March and they worked fine until recently.

The best part is what manufacturers want you to do to possibly make them work again. Let's just say their procedures are not user friendly, at all.

Is their any advancement in HDDs that would be useful to boxers? I'd rather have a semi-fast HDD than a completely unreliable SSD.


Oh and if anyone asks, my vacation from boxing didn't last long.

[MiRai]

So I've about had it with SSDs. Yes they are fast, but it comes with a price: reliability. Of the 5 SSDs I have had all 5 have failed at some point in their life. These are not cheap walmart brands either. I've owned some of the fastest SSDs ever made and now I'm this ----> <---- close to ripping out the two I have and going back to disks. I bought the new agility 3s from OCZ when they first came out in March and they worked fine until recently.

The best part is what manufacturers want you to do to possibly make them work again. Let's just say their procedures are not user friendly, at all.

Have you been to the OCZ forums? All it is is one big forum of people with tons of problems and issues. Their
forums are full of stickies and announcements and it's confusing labyrinth of hoops to jump through in order to
troubleshoot things. I am speaking from my experience over there a few months ago, though.

Their Sandforce controller is crap and last I heard they were blaming Intel chipsets because of it. It's
unfortunate that you've had such bad luck with them but, you couldn't give me a brand new OCZ drive for free
because I would be hesitant to put any data on it I didn't want to lose. Maybe I'd use it as a FRAPS drive.

As a side note, I'm a happy Intel customer.

Is their any advancement in HDDs that would be useful to boxers? I'd rather have a semi-fast HDD than a completely unreliable SSD.

Probably some WD Raptors in a raid setup would give some nice performance.

Oh and if anyone asks, my vacation from boxing didn't last long.

The dark side beckons...

[Multibocks]

Yeah did the Raptor route on my old computer... God are those slow


Maybe I will buy an intel and check it out. Are their installs as crazy as OCZs?

[Multibocks]

I did own an ioExtreme, but I gave that shit away because it crashed a lot.


Does Intel make a PCI-e solution that is extremely fast like revodrives?

[MiRai]

Yeah did the Raptor route on my old computer... God are those slow


Maybe I will buy an intel and check it out. Are their installs as crazy as OCZs?

I hooked both of my Intel 510's up right out of the box and they just worked. I was an SSD virgin prior to these
and had no idea what to expect. After that I grabbed the SSD Toolbox from their site and ran it. Absolutely zero
hassle. You can watch the nifty video below so you know what to expect with installation.

Does Intel make a PCI-e solution that is extremely fast like revodrives?

Soon. And they're supposed to support TRIM as well.

[Esca]

Have you guys had any experience with Crucial m4 drives? I'm actually about to place an order for s system that uses them.

[Multibocks]

Oh good. I will keep limping along until the PCI products launch.

[MiRai]

Have you guys had any experience with Crucial m4 drives? I'm actually about to place an order for s system that uses them.

Not personally but Anandtech just did a review on that drive with the new firmware that Crucial just released
and apparently it's much better than it was before.

Oh good. I will keep limping along until the PCI products launch.

Supposedly, Q4 '11.

[Multibocks]

Looks like it might be spendy, but 2200 MB/s is just


I must have it! Any guess on price?

[Vecter]

Sandforce drives are faster performance wise than Intel's but what holds them back as MiRai stated is reliability with their controller. This is why Anandtech will state that for reliability choose the Intel 510. I have had my Intel 160 GB G2 for quite some time and have my WoW running on it for 5 boxing. Zero issues to report.