1 TB SSD Recommendation
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1 TB SSD Recommendation
Like everyone else I'm looking for a Black Friday/Cyber Monday special. What would you recommend for a 1 TB internal SSD for a laptop? (The 512GB OEM inside is from Toshiba but I don't see them anywhere.)
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OCZ - I have two 512gb SSD's in my machine that i'm typing on now. Rock solid. Would definitely buy a 1TB SSD from them
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you can ultimately get the 960GB one for around $150 on newegg if you do it right (but you also have to buy another $25 item). that involves putting an extra $25 item into your cart (so total is above $225), checking out with visa checkout ($25 off for spending $200) and using an amex card with a targeted $25 off $200 purchase. so you'll spend just over $175 for the SSD + $25 item. hopefully you have an amex card with the targeted newegg offer.
you can ultimately get the 960GB one for around $150 on newegg if you do it right (but you also have to buy another $25 item). that involves putting an extra $25 item into your cart (so total is above $225), checking out with visa checkout ($25 off for spending $200) and using an amex card with a targeted $25 off $200 purchase. so you'll spend just over $175 for the SSD + $25 item. hopefully you have an amex card with the targeted newegg offer.
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you can ultimately get the 960GB one for around $150 on newegg if you do it right (but you also have to buy another $25 item). that involves putting an extra $25 item into your cart (so total is above $225), checking out with visa checkout ($25 off for spending $200) and using an amex card with a targeted $25 off $200 purchase. so you'll spend just over $175 for the SSD + $25 item. hopefully you have an amex card with the targeted newegg offer.
you can ultimately get the 960GB one for around $150 on newegg if you do it right (but you also have to buy another $25 item). that involves putting an extra $25 item into your cart (so total is above $225), checking out with visa checkout ($25 off for spending $200) and using an amex card with a targeted $25 off $200 purchase. so you'll spend just over $175 for the SSD + $25 item. hopefully you have an amex card with the targeted newegg offer.
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UEFI?
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I work for a IT service provider in the UK. OCZ are very unreliable compared to other SSD's. In fact the OCZ drives have a higher failure rate than the traditional HDD's. Would not recommend!
Both Crucial and Intel SSD's are very good.
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SanDisk has quite a number of different lines of drives; the Ultra II and Extreme Pro both use modern Marvell controllers and their own (joint venture with Toshiba) flash. I haven't used them, but anecdotally they're quite good, and the Crucial drives using the same controllers (but different firmware, and Micron flash) are my usual preference these days.
The early production of (and early firmware for) the Sandforce SF-1200 series of controllers were really problematic; really, really fast for their time when they worked (and assuming you weren't using them to store highly-compressed media files) ... but very problematic. They were in a VAST range of different brands' SSDs, and every one of them had problems back then, although most of those were fixed in later firmware.
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For general use, any SSD from any reputable brand is going to be fine. For the impatient, going with something beyond a bottom-of-the-line value drive MAY be worth it -- although I'm generally among the impatient and am doing fine with two last generation drives -- one value drive (Samsung 840 EVO), and one drive predating Crucial splitting their line but which wasn't a great benchmarking drive even at the time (M500).
For the truly impatient, these things change very rapidly, and I recommend reading Anandtech if you have only got time to read one review site.
http://www.anandtech.com/tag/ssd
or http://www.anandtech.com/show/9799/best-ssds for recent recommendations.
(Pure vanity, although this may help my bona fides.)