Recommend an SSD for home PC

[Rawns]

Im looking for an SSD at the moment. It will be for the OS and generic apps and 120Gb is an ideal size. I've never bought one before so not sure which models are good, but I've heard bad thins about OCZ and that they have the highest failure and return rate to any other brand?

[glennda]

I have a Samsung 830 256GB, can't fault it.

[tech_guy]

Yes avoid OCZ as the forums are full of people with horror stories. I've got a 256GB Crucial M4 in my home PC and it flies.

[stevenlong1985]

+1 for the Samsung 830 256GB

[Chuckster]

What's the typical boot up time from cold start to login screen/desktop on a SSD?

[Arthur]

+2 for Samsung. I have 3 x 256GB Samsung 830's in my gaming PC and they have been brilliant so far.

 

Since the 830 has been superseded, I would recommend getting the 840 Pro.

[mdench]

samsung ones come highly recommended had a batch of 200 pcs come with OCZs thankfully getting them swapped for crucial or samsung as they die off

[fairm010]

What's the typical boot up time from cold start to login screen/desktop on a SSD?

 

My PC boots from button press to desktop in about 10 seconds. Does depend on how long your POST takes.

[sonofsanta]

Samsung. Samsung Samsung Samsung. 840 good, 840 Pro best. I have the 830 at home and we have a handful about school (they were extremely affordable for a while) and they've all been solid.

 

Or Crucial m4. Not quite as fast (though still an excellent performer) but cheaper and still thoroughly reliable. We've got at least a hundred of them around here and no issues.

[FN-GM]

Not got one myself but heard good things about intel drives.

[Danp]

What's the typical boot up time from cold start to login screen/desktop on a SSD?

 

Less than 10 secs, as someone has said before, depends on the PCs post time, but you will only see a flash of the windows logo. Even our 4 year old RM CC4 machines with SSDs are at a working desktop from cold boot within 25 seconds.

[zag]

Intel. Avoid anything OCZ.

 

There will be no difference in speed between the models in the real world. All SSD's are equal when it comes to boot up time or launching applications.

[localzuk]

Kingston, Sandisk or Samsung IMO. Or if you want 'super stability' at the cost of some performance, go for Intel. Crucial are again fine, but everything I've seen shows they have a bit lower performance.

 

OCZ = cheap and tacky in my experience.

[tekins]

As others have said, Samsung all the way, we have bought Crucial M4's recently though as their price was slightly better and they are almost as fast. No reliability problems with Either.

[Domino]

 

There will be no difference in speed between the models in the real world. All SSD's are equal when it comes to boot up time or launching applications.

 

Totally disagree.

 

We've just had one of our client support guys buy some shonky SSDs for his demo laptops. The speed he was getting out of them is no different to the HDDs in there before. Replaced with Crucial M4s, and they now fly.

[HaleStorm]

+1 for both Crucial and Samsung...i had a OCZ Petrol...it went back after a week as it was rubbish, it wouldnt even let me install an OS on it correctly and threw errors at every bootup

[Valentine]

Totally disagree.

 

We've just had one of our client support guys buy some shonky SSDs for his demo laptops. The speed he was getting out of them is no different to the HDDs in there before. Replaced with Crucial M4s, and they now fly.

I would agree with the fact that the largest difference in speed will be upgrading to any SSD, those must have been some seriously fast HDDs if no difference was noticed.

 

However my newer Crucual M4 i have at work is much faster compared to my OCZ Vertex 2 (still going strong, no complains about them from me) that i have at home. A nice new Samsung 840 Pro is on my shopping list at the moment for home.

[zag]

Totally disagree.

 

We've just had one of our client support guys buy some shonky SSDs for his demo laptops. The speed he was getting out of them is no different to the HDDs in there before. Replaced with Crucial M4s, and they now fly.

 

I have a 1st generation samsung SSD 16GB, its over 6 years old now. It runs as fast as any other laptop with and SSD when booting or launching apps.

 

I must admit I have only ever tried intel and samsung ssds though. Maybe the fact the original 2007 model runs SLC memory has an impact, I don't know.

[CamelMan]

Intel. Avoid anything OCZ.

 

There will be no difference in speed between the models in the real world. All SSD's are equal when it comes to boot up time or launching applications.

 

Have been using OCZ agility and Vertex's, Intels and Verbatim's for around 6 months across the site and for personal use - no faults or failures. I think one of the OCZ'd won a TomsHardware award as well.

 

Also there can be difference in speed and stability - depending on the type, age etc. - however as Zag said - in real world terms most of the newer drives will be much of a muchness.

[craigt]

Im currently using 2 Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD's and have had no faults so far. really good and boot W7 in around 9 sec. just found out that they have stopped production on them ;/

[3s-gtech]

We have around 150 Crucial M4s on site, they've been impressive. Also got some very decent Kingston V200+, the V300+ is cheap and the reviews have been positive. Avoid the V100 at all costs. Samsung have a great rep though I've not used any, and Intel's drives are solid. Personally, I'd look at the 250GB Samsung 840 on Ebuyer atm.

[craigt]

We have around 150 Crucial M4s on site, they've been impressive. Also got some very decent Kingston V200+, the V300+ is cheap and the reviews have been positive. Avoid the V100 at all costs. Samsung have a great rep though I've not used any, and Intel's drives are solid. Personally, I'd look at the 250GB Samsung 840 on Ebuyer atm.

 

got some great prices on ssd's on there at the moment.

[ICTDirect_Dave]

Im looking for an SSD at the moment. It will be for the OS and generic apps and 120Gb is an ideal size. I've never bought one before so not sure which models are good, but I've heard bad thins about OCZ and that they have the highest failure and return rate to any other brand?

 

We like the Intel X25 Series SSDs. ever so slightly slower in terms of performance, but totally reliable.

 

Which is convenient as I seem to have a batch of 160GB in stock right now.

 

£95 + VAT if your'e interested?

[CHR1S]

I use an OCZ Vertex 3, no issues (so far) and is a great performer.

 

Always remember to leave 10/15% free space for long term speed benefits and IMO always go for the next size up as you fill it fast

[CamelMan]

One thing to point out (if you havent used SSD's before) - be gentle with them!

 

The power and Sata connections at the back tend to be thin plastic and snap easily!

 

"I'll just balance this here to build before screwing it in... B0#&%>$S!!" (x 2 )